STATISTICS OF LABOR. 321 



"It therefore again follows that in the very first division 

 those who do the work of production, either of the raw mate- 

 rial or of the finished article, must get ninety-five to ninety- 

 seven parts, and the owner of capital only three to five. 1 ' 

 Page 64. 



" In addition to the general proof already given, that, in re- 

 spect to the manufactures of Massachusetts, those who do the 

 work now receive ninety-five to ninety-seven per cent., while 

 indirectly working people receive nearly all the remaining three 

 or five per cent. , special proof may be found in the considera- 

 tion of the cotton manufacture of the United States, taken as a 

 whole." Page 66. 



If these statements mean anything it is that of the 

 gross product of $592,331,962, as claimed from the 

 mechanical industries of Massachusetts, capitalists in 

 that State receive not more than five per cent., or 

 $29,616,598, whilst not less than ninety-five per cent., 

 or $562,715,364 are there paid to the laborers in the 

 various mechanical industries ; and that "indirectly 

 working people receive nearly all the remaining three 

 to five per cent.," the $29,616,598 that the "owner 

 of capital" had received. For evidence of the cor- 

 rectness of these statements our author forgot to refer 

 to the wonderful fact that the unfortunate capitalist, 

 who really gets nothing, lives in luxury in a Beacon 

 street or Commonwealth avenue palace, and the cor- 

 respondingly great matter for astonishment, that the 

 most fortunate workmen, who get all, may be found 

 starving in the tenement houses of the North End. 



With regard to the first item of $29,616,598 1 have 

 no disposition to dispute that it approximately shows 

 the yearly profits derived by capitalists from the pro- 

 ductive industries of that State ; especially when it is 



