Now these nearly 47½-millions of persons in gainful pursuits could not all be the slaves of dividogenesure. For some of these |FAVORITES OF DIVIDOGENESURE SPECULATE.| persons serve its favorites for very high salaries and their services are well remunerated. Nor could this number include many of the favorites of this unjust principle. For its real favorites are those that possess extensive rights in natural and artificial resources of wealth; they are those that earn their enormous incomes even in their comfortable beds, by simply speculating on and relying upon the energy and productivity of the subjects to dividogenesure. And as the productivity of the American people is very high, it therefore becomes as easy for them to grow very wealthy under the favor of dividogenesure as for the millions of makers of their fortunes to grow very poor and emaciated.
Reviewing then the various occupations of the people in the United States as these are represented by different authorities, we |1,000,000 FAMILIES AND 38,837,849 INDIVIDUALS.| have sufficient reason to judge that since the year 1890 there have been about 38,837,849 persons who may be regarded as positive slaves to dividogenesure on the one hand. And there have been about one million families that were more or less profited by their highly productive labor and skillful energy on the other hand. The above number includes nearly all the homeless and landless of the last census, and includes about six millions of those who had their little homes and other properties of no importance.
The productivity of these people may be exemplified by the following reports:
“Mr. Mulhall, in the ‘North American Review,’ for June, 1895, says:
“An ordinary farm-hand in the United States raises as much grain as three in England, four in France, five in Germany, or six in |PRODUCTIVITY OF FARMERS.| Austria, which shows what an enormous waste of labor occurs in Europe, because farmers are not possessed of the same mechanical appliances as in the United States.” (Enc. of Soc. Ref. p. 1093.)
“Mr. Edward Atkinson gives the following statements on the industrial productivity of the United States.” He says:
“One thousand barrels of flour, the annual ration of 1,000 people, can be placed in the city of New York from a point 1,700 or |7 PERSONS SERVE 1,000 WITH BREAD.| 2,000 miles distant with the exertion of human labor equivalent to that of only four men, working one year in producing, milling and moving the wheat. It can then be baked and distributed by the work of three more persons, so that seven persons serve 1,000 with bread.”[[73]]
“The average crop of wheat in the United States and Canada would give one person in every 20 of the population of the globe a |ENOUGH TO FEED THE WORLD.| barrel of flour in each year, with enough to spare for seed. The land capable of producing wheat is not occupied to anything like one-twentieth of its extent. We can raise grain enough on a small part of territory of the United States to feed the world.”[[74]]
“The general conclusion at which I have arrived is that in the year 1880, the census year, |GROSS INCOME IN YEAR 1880.| when the population of the United States numbered a little over 50,000,000, the annual product had a value of nearly, or quite $10,000,000,000 at points of final consumption, including, at market prices, that portion which was consumed upon the farm, but which was never sold. Omitting that consumed upon the farm, it was about $9,000,000,000.”[[75]]
“At an average of 200 pounds per head in the United States, the largest consumption of iron of |ONE OPERATOR SERVES HUNDREDS WITH GOODS.| any nation, we may yet find that the equivalent of one man’s work for one year, divided between the coal-mine, the iron-mine and the iron-furnace, suffices for the supply of 500 persons. One operator in the cotton factory makes cloth for 250; in the woolen factory for 300; one modern cobbler (who is anything but a cobbler), working in a boot or shoe factory, furnishes 1,000 men or more than 1,000 women with all the boots and shoes they require for a year.”[[76]]