Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-29
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The Democrat takes us as having
referred 20 the total number of per-
sons employed in the pursuits men,
toned, whereas we said those who
are directly dependent on those pur-
suit; for living The intelligent
reader can readily understand the
difference, but to make clear Illus
tration of that difference, we state
the following example. There are
only 1870, 493 people set down in
the census as being employed in
agricultural pursuits, yet every one
knows that those who are "directly
dependen on such pursuits for a liv-
| ing'' are greatly in excess of those
figures.
Now those who "incidentally de-
rive their daily bread from such a
source" are the merchants who sell
these people their goods, the farm
ers who supply them with food and
the professional men who give them
their services. How many people
OF other vocations than manufactur-
ing could live in Pittsburg if the
manufactures of that city were re-
moved? How many in Lowell :?
How many in Chattanooga p
Chronicle, Sept. LIST.
We do not care to argue its asser-
ton that 12,000,000 are dependent
upon the 1900, 900 actually en-
/ ployed in the manufactures for a
support neither its bold assertion of
some weeks back that 10000, 900
were employed in manufactures be-
| sides the large number dependent
on these 20,000,0 600 for their daily
bread. The assertion was false and
| that is all there is in it.-DenaOcrnt,
Sept. s.
This is illustrative of some of the
high-toned journalism in which the
| Democrat engages. We had stated
that the assertion in regard to twen-
ty millions was mistake and
should have been twelve millions.
Now we are prepared to say that
| there are at least two things in the
above quoted paragraph that are
false and we will leave it to an i'm
partial committee to decide if they
are not. First, we never said that
there are twelve millions dependent
on three millions, but twelve mil
lions in all. Second, we never said
| that there were 20, 600, 900 employed
| in manufactures, &C., but twenty
millions dependent on such indus
tries for a living. Chronicle, Sept.
18th.
Now concerning its denial above,
we have only to say once more it
speaks falsely, that it did not say
what it says it did. Its exact lam
guage was:
"There are 2O,OO0,O 900 people in
the United States directly dependent
on such industries for a living, to
say nothing of the vast number
who incidentally derive their daily
bread from such a source"
The titles in the above are our
our own. We italicize to call spe-
cial attention to "drectly depend
emit" People directly dependent
on manufactures for living, would
have to earn wages direct of them
directly dependent on a person or
thing means dependent through no
person or medium, but dependent
without int rvening substance. To
be so dependent on the manufacto-
ries for a living would be to be an
employee, and all persons directly
depandent on them would have to
be employed by them. Hence the
Chronicles denial, is either false,
or the English language has no
meaning. However, if "directly
dependent" in the above quotation
only means-a dependence, direct
or indirect, and not the dependence
which employees owe employers,
what dependence is that that is
meant to be conveyed by the latter
part of the sentence which is this:
ITO say nothing of the vast num-
Der who incidentally derive their
daily bread from such source"
The sentence speaking of two
dependencies, the one direct the
other incidental, we analysed them
to be, those employed by industries
and those dependent on the en-
plOyed-the families of the laborers.
Democrat, Sept. 22d.
We submit the above extracts to
the inspection of the public without
any comment except to say that we
consider a mans wife, children and
other dependencies directly depend
ent on his employment for living,
and that we don't know why the
Democrat failed to answer our ques-
tions: "How many people of other
vOcations than manufacturing do
you suppose could live in Pittsburg
if the manufactures of that city
were removed? How many in
Lowell? How many in Chattanoo-
ga ?" Nor why it didn't accept our
proposition to leave the decision of
this matter to an impartial COM
mittee +?