The Impending Crisis / Conditions Resulting from the Concentration of Wealth in the United States

INDEX.

Basil A. Bouroff

Average: rate per cent on debt, 123, 124;

average wealth of the rich, the well-to-do, the middle, and of the poor classes, 28, 29;

of over 27-millions, 51, 52;

average, for homes in debt, 113;

for farms in debt, 111, 112;

differences in averages of different authorities, 38;

—rents, see: Rent.

Blocks illustrating comparison of individual wealth, 50.

Bread-winners by C. D. Wright, 85.

Capita: per capita wealth, 27, 38;

per capita debt, 122, 123.

Capital: aids to increase production of wealth, 55-57;

concentration of capital increased, 140, 155.

Cities: per cent of the homeless in, 80;

cities’ families in debt, 114, 115;

large cities’ families in debt, 114, 115;

cities belong to 24 and 14 per cent of their population, 118, 132.

Comparison of the poor and the rich by dollars’ worth, 7, 8;

comparison in tables, 42;

of the family-groups, 39;

of the U.S. with France at the time of Revolution, 16;

with Rome, 17;

by Crosby Hon. Ino. Reciprocal comparison of the middle classes of two tables, 39.

Concentration: of wealth in higher spheres, 153;

of employees, 155, 156;

1st table of concentrated wealth, 150;

2d and final table of, 169;

explanation of this concentration, 170;

concentration of wealth increases, 180, 181;

concentration of wealth greater than the total increase of it, 170, 171.

Consumers’ opinion on remuneration of capital and laborers, 97, 98;

do not know the bases of justice and rights, 98, 99.

Debt: on farms, 111, 112;

on homes, 113;

increase of, 1880-89, 119-122;

increase of public debt, 167;

total debt on acres and lots in 1890, 121 .html#Page_49" class="pginternal">49.

Monopolies: definitions of, Appendix II and III;
profits of the mortgagee, 145;
profits of the natural, 101, 145-6;
profits of monopolies of the rentable homes, 146-7;
profits of rentable lands, 149;
the total net incomes of 4 classes of monopolies, 150;
grand total of the total net incomes of the monopolies and combinations, 169;
explanation of the net incomes of the monopolies, 170-1.
See: Incomes, the excess of.

Mortgages: statistics of, 111;
development of, 119;
significance of, 128;
semi-optimistic views on, 128;
view of Mr. E. Atkinson on, 128-132;
of Mr. G. H. Holmes, 132;
view of Rev. Wm. D. P. Bliss, Editor of Enc. of Soc. Reform, 133;
Semi-pessimistic views: view of Mr. J. P. Dunn, Jr., Burden of Debt, 134;
losses of property by foreclosure, an example, 135, 136;
view of Mr. D. R. Goodloe, 136.
See: Debt.

Mulhall, Mr., comparison of farmers of different countries, 93.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 107-8.

Poor: grow absolutely poorer, 172.

Population: in families, 18;
in individuals, 5, 12;
increase of in 1897, 163, 164, 165;
in 1900, 182.

Primogeniture, Great Britain and Japan, 70, 74, 136.

Productivity of the Americans: on farm, 93;

in industry, 94, 95, 96.

Propertyless: “Less than half the nation,” 18;
“tenants,” group 1st, 2d table, 32;
causes of the increase of the propertyless, 52;
propertyless is a resourceless man of multiple expenditure, 61-68-71;
he is a source of multiple income for many propertied, 68;
without employment, 69;
pay rent or are expelled, 77-78;
unseen forces compel him to be a slave, 76;
more than half the population, 82;
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