the scale towards 
inheritance and income taxes 
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;-n accumulate five hundred dollars to his one, but 
cause, through the operation of this special privilege, 
f is at his, the poor man’s, expense that the rich man’s 
^-.cumulation is made. Ex-Governor Long says that 
ere will be discontent just so long as certain comforts 
; d possessions are within the reach of one class and 
*; yond the reach of another class. This discontent 
chbishop O’Connell calls the “tumultof theenvious.” 
r; it unprivileged men, whether unprivileged rich or 
: -.privileged poor/ have not far to look to find that 
^: .content and envy start only where skill and enterprise 
; ive off and special privilege begins. You are not 
vious of Edison or Marconi or Bessemer or railroad 
C ignates, or captains of industry; you gladly accord 
em princely rewards as public benefactors. It is 
si-.ly when the people are called upon to provide an 
Hson fortune for every city and town in the country 
j; rough privileged exaction that your discontent is 
aused. It is only when they are required to super- 
:■ pose upon an unprivileged steel fortune of three or 
f: Jr millions a privileged fortune of a thousand millions, 
:-.sed upon economic rent, that the shoe begins to 
tch. It is only when the ore baron, the coal baron, 
i! e oil baron, the railroad baron, and the land baron 
J: 2 privileged to take ten dollars or a hundred dollars 
L >m their wages and add it to the monopoly price of 
:■ al and iron and oil that men are swayed by the 
f-umult of the envious.” 
j: Legislation has been busy constituting criminal 
_ ences. The air is charged with criminal prosecution 
' d conviction where fortunes have been swelled 
rough violation of law. But is it not true that neither 
'islatures nor courts have seriously addressed 
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