Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-08

state would have bcen physical and financial
:mpossIbaity. Some 5000 blanks were nd.
dressed and mailed to as many separate estab-
iishmcnts throughout the State, aud o. this
number G.020, or 10 per cent. were returned
fully Und correctly answered.
Prom the tables II appears that there was u
net Increase in wages OF Sd,377, 925o9 in the
lyear 1891, ne compared with the amount paid
In 1890, and net increase OF production Of
SSLSij, 1905 in tho year 1891 over that Of
1870. simple analysis OF this table further
demonstrates tho interesting fact that OF the
six'y-sevcn Industries covered II per cent. oil
them show an increase either OF the wages or
iproduct, or both, and that there we're no less
than S9,7l7 instances of individual increases OF
wages during the Same year.
4 while the industries are but 81 in mum.
Der, the total trades represented amount to
!, l, l2l, and giyeemploymcnt to 2S5, 900 WORKING
men and women. or the 67induslries included
Us per cent OF them show an increased aver
age yearly earning in the yeer 1891. while the
total average increase ofyearly earnings of the
2sj 900 employees was S23ll. The average
Increase OF yearly earnings OF the employees In
the 81 trades showing an increase was
1886 in 1891, as compared with 1890.
STRIKES FEWER.
] 'Tn addition TO the investigation OF this spo-
cial subject, the bureau has continued its an
nual Investigation OF all LABOR disturbances
occurring in tho State during the past ye r
The total number OK strikes reported for the
year 1891 was 1919, as against GAS occurring
in the year 1890. a decrease Of 1889. or the
total number, 4,5l9. 2,S75. or So per cent. Of
them, were in the building trades, fact that
seems to follow in natural sequence the results
obtained in the special investigation of the Of.
feet OF the tariff on labor and wages"
The report closed as follows: at has been
my experience, as. l doubt not, it has been
that OF every statistician, moro or less, thai
one often finds himself tempted, unconscious.
ly. perhaps, to pursue an investigation with a
view to establish preconceiyed theory. How
Often failure and positive discontinue follow !
can safely leave to those who have engaged in
the fascinating study OF statistics.
ITO the true statistician, however, unin-
auencod by social or political considerations
the profession is an enyiable one, and carries
with it duties and responsibilities OF the high
est order. To him theories are as nothing
without facts to support them they be,
come misleading, and, therefore, worthless
Facts and truth are what he seeks, and hav.
ing possessed himself Of them he places them
hard and cold as they oftentimes are, before
the public, satisfied that he has done but his
duty. and thereby attained his highes
ambition"
These are facts reported-not by sensa
tlonal newspaper or prejudiced Congress.
men-but by the economists and statistical nI
of worldwide fame whose names are men
TONED, by committee OF United States
Senators, including two prominent leaders o.
the Free Trade reform" crusade-Senatol
Carlisle Of Kentucky and Senator Harris O.
lrennessee--andD y Democratic Labor Burear
of State administered and controlled b,
Democrats exclusively.
So Free Trade "reiormers" might lust a,
well recognize first as last that any demagogIc
compilation Of alleged facts which they can
make, no matter how conspicuously head,
lined or audaciously blazoned forth, will no
affect in the least the integrity or value OF tn,
unimpsachabIe official reports here cited.