Those palaces
on the Nob hills of these United States are the toadstools of the decay
that is going on in this Republic to-day.
The master crime of all ages was the building of those pyramids on the
Egyptian sands, for they were useless, but the whim and the slaves and
the lash of power were there, and the pyramids went up.
Let us see to it that the power of our pyramid builders is destroyed
before it gets beyond five million dollar palaces.
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When we apply the principle of Confiscation to the millionaire merchant
and turn his excess into the public treasury, it will be no more
destructive of the business of which he has had all the profits than it
was of the railroads. There will be more business done in the same line
than ever, but more will be doing it, and consequently more will share
in the profits. But if our object is to break up these fabulous
fortunes, which mean certain death to our liberties, and whose blight
has paralyzed progress and development, there should be no reason why we
should not allow the present owners to take a hand in the breaking up.
If the merchant, or other millionaire, would rather divide his millions
among his relatives (barring his wife and minors) and friends, than to
resign it over to the public treasury, let him do so.
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