Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., Property income--service income, January 22, 1917

              Anyone \,ho should read my many enflays on the ~mbjeets of Ct.lpi tal
8ud Income -- on ltconomics, in fac t woulc1-- beforE'~ read ine this. have
diBcoverodthat 1 hnve failod to find tmy s atisfactory definition of
either cfi pital or lyeelth.
Ho 'would haTe also , discovered now:, vain' ho1l6 been., alL my .affor ts to.
diseovor a bBSis-- u rule wheroby one might justly distribute &"long the
I 'l1ri ( ~i I S members of society w(-)f.llth or income.
i:. tartiI.. ltJ out lny life's eEl.reer as ~ journalist a~ 1 did, wi th very
defini La convictions concen-nlng what wa$!! to me t ho ?erfectly ap'Pftrcnt in­jt(
stlee in t he matter of distribution of wea.lth ami income; 1 ha1e been
awin"o of a grE.tdu.Hl more or le~s rapid d isintoe;THtion of these primary
convlutions.
11',y instinots-- my arnot ionol temperpmont-- lwve vlwnys boen oryin.g out
and is still crying o~t ugainst. t hat conclition of affaire; which
t I not only parmi ts" but compels t he few to be so weal thy as to be overbur­dened
by their riches • . and tho InHny to suffor the distress of ,overty.
In se~~Ewn and out of fH' 8S0n. in ";wri tine. in publishing and in speek-t
inZ; 1
~ of tl:e
have been denouncing capitalists an.1 o8 pittllism, and the oppre;ssion
poor.
i ell.,n remember EJ. pj though it were yesterday" ~;?hon I 'Nae firmly resolved
that l.vould never permit my own': income to exoeed three thousand dollars
At e later dHte, evt1h when I had appro8ohed to nearly middle
11' f' e. 1 ':: a~ resolved upon 1 imi t i~~ my income to ton thousanrl d.ollars s.
yea.r.
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