The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-03-28
A Nation of Workers.

The st. LOUIS Democrat has been curl
ously looking over our last census, and
studying the record Of our toIlers Figures
may not be juicy reading, and may be ia
nous only 10; telling the truth, but figures
can laugN, IN they can sometimes weep
and, all in all, We don't know anything
like figures to set the fancy aglow and
quicken romance. Each census sets us all
pIcturlng the future, and estimating the
glories Of another century. We wish the
people could all have an opportunity to
study the story of these figures of Ameri-
can life. We feel as if they brought us
into closer sympathy with all who drive or
delve. Estimating from the census, We
lind somewhat over q, 900, 900 directly IN
terested in the culture Of the sol, 3,000,-
900 Of whom are laborers, Az, 600 dairy
men, ), 900, 900 farmers or land pruprietors,
| 900 florists, 81 900 gardeners, about 15,-
900 herdsmen and drovers, 1000 vine
yardlsts, few bee-raisers, and 5000 Of
sundry kindred employments.
The clergymen number IL, 900 the ac-
tors, 1000; the architects, 1000; the
artists, 5000; the authors, 500; the den
lists, 5000; servants, domestic, ZOO, 900
hotel keepers, 28, 900: journalists, 5000
laborers, ] 400, 900; laundresses, 10000;
BARRIERS, $4,000; lawyers, $4,000; musi-
clans, 5000; nurses, 1000; army and
navy officers, 1000; government officials,
45, 900; and government employees, IL, 900
Physicians number 30, 900; sculptors 26O;
soldiers, %, 900 teachers, 140, 900 res
tauranters, $4,000. OF tradesmen we tind
III, 900 agents; 10000 bankers; 10, 900 bar
Keepers; $1,000 boatmen; 30, 0U0 book
keepers $50 900 clerks 125, 900 draymen
and teamsters; 175, 900 railroad employees;
20, 600 hucksters; 500 milk dealers; 3, 900
newspaper carriers; 10, 900 in the employ
Of telegraph companies; 1000 pawnbrokers;
20, 900 peddlers 90, 900 sailors Sc, 600
porters; 20, 900 statesmen; A, 900 shippers;
l25, ,0O0 unclassihed dealers; ), 900 cheerful
undertakers; 1000 dealers in books; 2 900
in agricultural implements; 1000 in boots
and shoes; 5000 III cabinet ware; 5000 in
clothing; 5000 in coal; 10000 III tobacco;
5000 III drugs; 40, 900 IN dry goods To-
0UO in groceries; 5000 in hats l 500 IN
ice; 100 III liquors; 5000 in live stocl !;
10000 i'll lumber; II, 900 IN produce; 1900
i'll real estate; 1000 III sewing machines;
1900 in periodicals and newspapers
nothing sand of'Iightning rod men. These
I
proximately correct.
There are about 3, 900, 900 mechanics and
manufacturers. Of these 45, 900 are cabi-
net makers; 1000 make our brooms; 8, 900
are contractors; II, 900 make beer; 26, 900
make brick and tiles; 1900 bleach and
dry the cloth that go 900 make Of wool and
ll5, 600 make Os cotton; II, 900 make arti-
ticial flowers, 90, 900 are dress and mantua
makers; 45, 200 millers; %, 900 bakers,
and 1000 cheese makers; 145, 600 black
smiths, and 800, 900 carpenters; there are
30, 900 machinists and 80, 900 foundrymen;
80, 900 are masons and 81, 600 marble cut
ters: 1900 make soap and candles; 46, 900
make carriages; IL, 600 carpt Is; 100 lime
and charcoal; 30, 900 cigars; 1000 clocks;
30, 900 harness and saddles; 10, 900 hats
and caps; 5000 hoopskirts; l3, 900 paper;
there are 10000 curriers' and tanners:
5000 photographists; 3, 900 distillers; SO,
OOO hremen and engineers; 45. 600 butch
ers; %, 600 fishermen; 5000 engravt "a;
10000 workers in glass; 20, 900 in gold and
silver; 1O,OOU locksmiths and gunsniths;
80, 100 workers in iron and steel works,
not specified; 10000 lumbermen; 45. 900
manufacturers. There are l55, 900 at work
IN mines, and AZ 900 in saw mills; 80, 900
are painters; 2o,OOO are plasterers; 81, 900
tInnsrs; FL 900 wheelwri shts; 1000 work
In sewing machine factories; 10000 are
printers; 5000 potters; l6, 900 ship build
ers; 5000 wood turner's, and 1900 wood
choppers; and no less than 165, 600 tailors,
tailoresses and seamstresses
A busy. bustling, terribly in-earnest ma
tion we are. We cannot afford to be idle.
But we are better off than any other peo-
pie in that We have room enough to swing
all our sledges in aud not lntrude on our
neighbors. We have about forty more
States to people yet, and some ten millions
of village sites to occupy, and inestimable
water to utilize. None of our industries
are overdone, unless 1t be locality.