320 LAND AND LABOR. 



real. Leaving for these two employments, as their 

 actual amount contributed to the productive indus- 

 tries of the State, the sum of $52,414,436, in place 

 of $249,308,350, as claimed. See page xxiii, ibid. 



It is hardly necessary to carry the examination into 

 other products, all of which are made up by similar 

 methods. These two will serve to show the way in 

 which a foundation is laid for a statement like that 

 found on page xix, ibid., as follows : 



" By this recapitulation it is seen that the total products of 

 the mechanical industries of the State are $592,331,962, from 

 22,228 establishments, on a capital invested of $282,683,718." 



And they will also show the methods by which it 

 is found that "the mechanical industries of the 

 United States amount to five thousand million dol- 

 lars annually," when they really do not reach one half 

 that sum. 



There is a remarkable swiftness to catch up these 

 false statements and to enlarge and exaggerate them, 

 apparent in the columns of a great number of our 

 leading metropolitan daily press ; and, more especial- 

 ly, in a late publication of the great house of the Har- 

 pers, in their "Half Hour Series," entitled, "Labor 

 and Capital Allies, not Enemies," by Edward Atkin- 

 son, of Boston. In this work the author not only 

 copies and endorses, but adds to them other state- 

 ments equally fictitious. For example, he says that 

 of the gross product of the mechanical industries of 

 the State, amounting to $592,331,962, as therein 

 claimed, capitalists receive only five per cent., as ap- 

 pears by the following quotations : 



