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stated by so high an authority as the distinguished 

 author of " Labor and Capital Allies, not Enemies," 

 and representative of that class of capitalists. But 

 the second item of $562,715,364, being the "ninety- 

 five to ninety-seven parts " that is claimed to be " now 

 received by those who do the work," is a gross delu- 

 sion. The very report from which the author has 

 drawn his pretended facts contains the most abundant 

 evidence of its untruthfulness ; and it is most aston- 

 ishing that one with the large general and special 

 business experience of our author should have the 

 boldness to publish a fallacy that is so transparent. 



It has already been shown that the amount paid to 

 workmen in the manufacture of boots and shoes was 

 $18,439,639, and in the manufacture of textiles was 

 $25,572,392, being a total of $44,012,031 for those 

 two employments. Textiles and boots and shoes rep- 

 resent the product of very nearly two fifths of the 

 manufacturing industries of that State. At that rate 

 the whole amount actually " received by those who 

 do the work," in "the manufactures of Massachu- 

 setts," was very nearly $110,000,000 in place of the 

 $562,715,364 claimed by the author of " Labor and 

 Capital Allies, not Enemies," and capital received at 

 least one fourth as much as did labor in the whole 

 transaction, or twenty-five per cent, instead of five, 

 as claimed. 



Had $562,000,000 gone into circulation through 

 the workers in the manufacturing industries in that 

 State, as claimed, instead of the $110,000,000 which 

 approximately represent the true amount, it requires 

 no prophet to see that there would have been at least 



