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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 86

The Amount of Tribute and its Effects

The Amount of Tribute and its Effects.

Of the tolls enumerated in Mr. Giffen's table we cannot say what part should be classed as rent and what part as interest; we can only state that the total income derived from real property—lands and buildings—must amount to about £220,000,000 a year; and that, according to the table, at least £270,000,000 may be classed as pure interest on other instruments of production (apart from all reward for personal services).*

The profits and salaries ot the class who share in the advantages ot the monopoly ot the instruments of production, or are endowed b) nature with any exceptional ability of high marketable value, page 11 amount, according to the best estimate that can be formed, to about £360,000,000 annually. While, out of a national income of some £1,350,000,000 a year, the workers in the manual labor class, four-fifths of the whole population, obtain in wages not more than £500,000,000.

Rent and interest alone, the obvious tribute of the workers as such to the drones as such, amount demonstrably to almost as much as this sum annually, and it may be safely said that the workers, from lop to bottom of society, pay a fine of

* See "Facts for Socialists," p. 6.

See "Facts for Socialists," p. 7.

Ibid, p. 8.