The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-01-23
A NdTION OF WORKERS.

and studying the record of the toilers.
Figures may not be juicy reading. and
may be famous only for telling the
truth, but figures can laugh, and 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 lis all picturing 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 American
life. We efeel as if they brought us into
closer sympathy with all who drive or
delve. Estimating from the census, we
find somewhat over 5000, 900 directly
interested in the culture of the soil,
5000, 900 of whom are laborers, 1000
dairymen, 100000 farmers or land
proprietors, 1000 florists, 81, 900 gar
deners, about $1,000 herdsmen and
drovers, 1000 vineyardists, few bee
raisers, and 5000 of sundry kindred
employments.
The clergymen number 5000; the
actors, 1000; the architects, 1900 the
artists, 5000 the authors, 500 the dem
fists, 5000; servants, domestic, 1,0O0,-
900; hotel-keepers, Is, 900 journalists,
$3.50; laborers, l, 400, 900; laundresses,
$1,000; BARRIERS, 5000; lawyers, 50,-
600 musicians, 5000; nurses, Il, 900
army and navy officers, 1000; Govern
ment officials, $1,000 and Government
employees, $1,000. Physicians number
65, 600; sculptors, 26O soldiers, g, 900;
teachers, 40, 600 restauranters, 80, 600.
OF tradesmen We find 10000 agents
10000 bankers 15,000 barkeepers
$50 boatmen $4,000 bookkeepers
30 600 clerks: 125,000 draymen and
teams.ers 17J, 900 railroad employees
10000 hucksters 5000 milk dealers
1000 newspaper carriers 10000 in the
employ of telegraph companies; 400
pawnbrokers 1000 peddlers; 10000
sailors $4,000 porters f; 10000 sales
men ; 4, COO shippers $4,000 unclassi-
fled dealers; 5000 cheerful under
takers; 4, 900 deal in books, 1000 in
agricultural implements 10000 in
boots and boots ; ), 600 in cabinet ware;
5000 in clothing; 5000 in coal /; 10000
in tobacco; 1S,000 in drugs; 10000 in
dry goods: $1,000 in groceries 1000
in hats ], 800 in ice II, 900 in liquors
5000 in live stock :; 10000 in lumber;
1900 in produce; 1900 in real estate
1000 in sewing machines: 1000 IN
periodicals and newspapers-nothing
said OF Ightningrod men. These fig
ures are all in round numbers, but ap-
proximately correct.
There are about 1000. 600 mechanics
and manufacturers. OF these 5000
are cabinet makers, 5000 make our
brooms 5000 are contractors 1000
make beer: 26, 600 make bricks and
tiles 5000 bleach and dry the cloth
that $1,000 make of wool and ID, 900
make of cotton II, coo make artificial
flowers, AID 92,0o0 are dress and
mantua makers 5000 millers 2S,0O0
bakers, and 4 600 cheese makers 49,
600 blacksmiths, and $50 900 carpent-
ers there are 55. 900 machinists and
5000 foundry men 10000 are ma
Sons, and 80, 600 marble cutters 1000
make soap and candles $1,000 make
carriages 10000 carpets 1000 lime
and charcoal 10000 cigars 1000
clocks 81, 600 harnesses and saddles
1900 hats and caps; 1000 hoop
skirts 1900 paper; there are 10000
curriers' and tanners; 5000 photo
graphists; 5000 distillers $4,000 fire.
men and engineers 1000 butchers
2S,OG0 fishermen 5000 engravers
10000 workers in glass 10000 in gold
and silver; 10000 locksmiths and gun
smiths: $4,000 workers in iron and
steel works, not specified ; 20, 900 in iron
and steel rolling mills 10000 lum-
bermen 40, 600 manufacturers. There
are 155, 600 at work in mines, and A.
600 in saw mills; 5000 are painters
$4,000 are plasterers 10000 timers
u 900 wheelwrights 1000 work in
sewing machine factories 10000 are
printers 5000 potters {; 5000 ship
builders 5000 wood turner's, and
1000 wood choppers and no less than
165, 600 tailors, tailoresses and seam
stresses.
A busy, bustling, terribly-in-earnest
natioh we are. We cannot afford to be
idle. But we are better off than any
other people, in that we have room
enough to swing all our sledges in and
not intrude on our neighbors. We have
about forty more States to people yet,
and some ten millions of village sites to
occupy, and inestimable water power to
utilize. None of our industries arc
cverdone, unless it be locally.
THE organization of an immense
trades-unio of English capitalists and
employers, to fight the trades-unions of
workmen, excites great interest in En-
gland. 1t was at first reported that this
organization represented the employers
of 9, 900, 900 of workmen but, although
this was said to have been an exaggera-
ton, it now appears to have been an
under estimate.
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