onwealth a share, rising from one to ninety-nine per
cent. according to the magnitude of the estate--or _some other form_
of taxation (if there be a better) producing equivalent results.

I do not propose these measures as THE REMEDY _par excellence_ for our
unhappy social condition. Not at all. They are merely the gigantic
blows from the right arm of the commonwealth, by which the curses
established in the dark and bloody past, crushing man and woman to the
earth, shall be hurled into oblivion. The true, absolute, and complete
REMEDY is that industrial, intellectual, hygienic, and ethical
training of all, which I have published as the "New Education" which
will make new men. These are bold and revolutionary measures,[8] but
the surgery of the knife is sometimes what humanity demands. The mad
riot of rivalry and selfishness must be restrained before it brings
the republic to ruin. The power of land monopoly must be broken by a
land tax, and the post-mortem despotism which perpetuates accumulated
evils must be thrown off by just and practicable legislation.

[8] Succession and income taxes are now beginning to be
considered. Two very feeble propositions have been
brought forward. The Massachusetts Legislative
Committee, on probate, reported a bill well adapted to
be worthless--to discourage benevolence and keep
property in the family by imposing a tax of five per
cent. on property left by will, except when going to
relatives or connections. Congressman Hall, of
Minnesota, introduced a bill in the last Congress for
an income tax, a fourth of one per cent. on incomes
between two and three thousand rising gradually to one
per cent. on incomes over $10,000. This very small
business is not what was demanded by "The Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union" in the Ocala convention,
which demanded the abolition of national banks and "the
passage of _a graduated income tax law_." These demands
were reiterated by the last legislature of Missouri, in
a resolution calling upon Congress to act upon them,
and pledging the legislature to enforce the farmers'
demand as far as in their power. North Carolina, too,
has adopted the Alliance principles. The income tax
will probably be a growing one--one per cent. will not