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service, 3,772,174, or 9.9 per cent ; trade, 3,614,670, or 9.5 per 

 cent; transportation, 2,637,671, or 6.9 per cent; clerical oc- 

 cupations, 1,737,053, or 4.6* per cent ; professional services, 

 1,663,569, or 4.4 per cent ; extraction of minerals, 964,824, or 

 2.5 per cent; not classified, 459,291, or 1.2 per cent. 



The same census gives the rural population as 49,348,883, 

 or 53.7 per cent of entire population to that of the urban 

 of 42,623,383, or 46.3 per cent. The rural includes towns of 

 less than 2,500 population. 



This showing indicates that political power if thoroughly 

 organized in classes lays between the farmers and affiliated 

 industries, and manufacturing and mechanical industries, 

 with the advantage still in favor of the rural population. A 

 coalition between unionized farmers and unionized labor for 

 control of political power would be possible and their com- 

 bined voting power would be irresistible. They have so 

 much interest in common that they should make a political 

 pact to gain control of Congress by electing members of their 

 own unions to all State and National legislative, executive 

 and judicial offices. In the large cities and industrial 'centers 

 where union labor predominates they should nominate, 

 finance and elect members of their unions to all offices, and 

 in all other places the unionized farmers should do the same. 

 This would put the government where it should be in the 

 hands of the great majority. 



The majority of Congressmen now are lawyers, though 

 they are but a small fraction of one per cent of the popula- 

 tion. Of the 96 Senators of the Sixty-third Congress, 55 are 

 lawyers, and of the 435 Representatives 247 are lawyers. 

 Thus over 56 per cent of Congress are lawyers to less than 

 4 per cent farmers, and no union labor members mentioned. 

 Of the 302 lawyers, 256 are college bred men. 



These lawyers as a class can have no sympathy for, nor 

 interest in the welfare of laborers or farmers for two princi- 

 pal reasons : they are of the small wealthy class who are 



