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rcau was swift to make up and issue its June report, 

 with its unknown quantity. But I now emphatically 

 say, that the idleness of 200,000 persons falls far short 

 of representing the real idleness in that State, and that 

 every ascertained fact, in possession of that Bureau of 

 Statistics, proves it. I take it for granted that the 

 Chief of the Bureau must know the facts, and their 

 full significance, as reported by his own office, and 

 therefore I say he must know that what I here state 

 is true. 



On pages 270-276, Compendium of 1875, is a table 

 showing the average number of days employed in a 

 year, in 262 occupations and subdivisions of occupa- 

 tions, which amount to 229 days and a fraction, show- 

 ing a loss of one fourth of the working time. One 

 fourth of the working time of the 584,690 persons who 

 " belong to the skilled and unskilled laborers " of that 

 State, amounts to the full time of 146,172 persons. 

 This is only one out of many factors I might cite, but 

 is enough to show the deceitful character of those two 

 reports from that Bureau. I know that the table here 

 referred to does not agree with the figures given in 

 gross on pages 144-45 of the last report. I am under 

 no obligation to reconcile the two reports, and much 

 prefer the statement of items in the Compendium. 



The Chief must know that the number of the in- 

 dustrial classes had been largely increased during the 

 previous four years, first, as reported by himself, 

 " from a class not furnishing competitors four years 



ago simply dependents numbering 



in all 56,117. From this class there have been large 

 numbers of recruits to the ranks of labor." See page 



