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The Need of Great Funds for War. The Present Status of the Inheritance Tax. The Inheritance Privilege Must be Entirely A bolished. Marshall Field died in 1906. His immense fortune, estimated at one hundred and twenty-five million, passed into the hands of trustees for his grandsons, then twelve and ten years old respectively, to be held for them, on account of their incapacity, until they should become fifty years old. The public was suddenly shaken from what Milton calls the secure falsity of an old opinion ;viz., that great fortunes are quickly dissolved in the hands of heirs, and therefore not dangerous. The certainty that our law of inheritance can and does create a money aristocracy as dangerous as monarchy itself, was vigorously discussed in press, pulpit and platform. The Chicago Tribune and nearly every other big paper in the country printed the Marshall Field will in full. Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, always quick to understand and respond to the current of popular thought, injected into his annual messagex the i Presidents Message to the 60th Congress, Dec.
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