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MONG other remedies against the monopolizing power, is that of Graduated Taxation, as presented in the following petition. This, and especially a low and uniform rate of interest, are important questions of the hour:

Your petitioners respectfully represent:

That the present unequal distribution of the products of industry, termed property, and the monopoly of the soil, demand from your body a profound, earnest, and careful consideration, with a view to such legislation as shall in a measure harmonize the present conflicting interests between industry and capital, and thus render them stable and equitable.

With this view, your petitioners would respectfully urge upon your body the adoption of the following beneficent law—a measure of graduated taxation upon accumulating wealth:

That whenever a citizen of the State shall be the possessor of five thousand dollars of taxable property, real or personal, to be determined by the returns of the Board of Assessors of the county in which he resides, or where the property exists, there shall be levied and collected annually upon such live thousand dollars (in the usual forms and through the usual channels) a tax of one-half of one per cent.; and upon all estates between live and ten thousand dollars, the sum of one per cent.; upon all estates between ten and