312 LAND AND LABOR. 



10. And, secondly, from the normal increase of pop- 

 ulation, being a little more than two per cent per an- 

 num, or say 50,000 persons. This, notwithstanding 

 the table on page 10, showing the rates of births and 

 deaths. As this question relates simply to the devel- 

 opment from the anteindustrial age into that of the 

 industrial, by the lapse of time, it is difficult to see 

 what immediate effect the neglect or refusal of chil- 

 dren to be now born can have upon the age develop- 

 ment of those now approaching man -or womanhood. 



Another fact must be well known in the office of 

 the Bureau of Statistics, for it is clearly shown by its 

 ascertained facts, and that is, that notwithstanding 

 the enormous increase in the products of that State, 

 since 1865, there has been a very large per centage of 

 decrease in the amount of manual labor actually em- 

 ployed, and that, consequently, all the additions that 

 have since been made to what should be the ranks 

 of labor, are just that much addition to the existing 

 amount of idleness. 



In Parts IV and V of the report much space is 

 given to correspondence with employers and employe's 

 some of which has been transferred to these pages 

 with the almost unanimous agreement upon the 

 matters of uncertain and partial employment, and 

 wages that will not permit of further reduction and 

 sustain life, even where the employment is most con- 

 tinuous and best paid. If there is a great want of 

 coherency, or that which is practical, in these answers, 

 it is not because of the neglect of any useful lessons 

 in political economy that have been by that Bureau 

 wasted upon the people. 



