Note 177 — Chapter VI · CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH IN MONOPOLIES, ETC.

“It is interesting to remark that, while in 1893 the number of the propertyless families reached over 7-millions, the national and local Building and Loan Associations having net assets of over $450,000,000, have,” in 25 years, “helped to secure” only “probably over 400,000 homes,” says Mr. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor. The World Almanac, 1899, p. 168; ib., 1900, p. 172. But that inability is aggravated by the taxation unjust to the poor. See here, pp. 174-178.