The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-07-14
EDITED BY ALLIANCE COMMITTEE.
Wanted..Further Information.

being mllllOnalreS are nary>a-mlllS>
have an immense amount of gratui-
tous good advice kindly bestowed
upon US.
Kind sirs (our advisers) after
studying the condition Of the farm
ers in this country as given below
please enlighten us how reducing
the cotton acreage, diversitying
crops, selling cotton il the early
market or holding it for a higher
price, making and saving our own
fertilizers, ETC., ETC., are to change
the conditions shown by the last
census. These conditions are big
with danger. They threaten the
very life of our civilization.
Tie following interesting statis>
tics were gathered by John Bright,
Professor Allen and others, and will
show the enormous amount of wealth.
in the hands of a few, while the
great masses of humanity is only
privileged to live upon the payment
of rent and interest.
In France there are 100000
matched cabins without window,
100000 with one window, and l.
100000 with two windows. Out of
100000 houses, more than 4,5O0,-
600 have Jess than five openings, in
GLIDING doors, and are cabins and
matched cottages, in which live
nearly two-thirds of the population.
Ia England and Wales one huns
dred persons own 100000 acres,
In England, in 1887, e-thirteenth
of the people owned two>thirds of
the national wealth.
Seventy persons own one halt of
Scotland, 100 own nine-tenths,
and twelve persons own 4,346,000
acres
In Ireland less than eight hun
dred persons own onC-half the land
402 members of the House of Lords
own Il, 240,012 acres, which rent fol
! s57 ,865,639 The total number o.
tenant farmers in England, Scotland
and Wales is 1,069,12 and of these
Ireland furnishes 574,222 and Eng
land 314,814.
England's war debts IS, 100000.
900 and the English bondholders
fatten on an interest Of S312,004,36C
annually drawn from the industrial
population of that country.
! In London relief was given to 49,
165 paupers in one week. 1t takes
1000 policemen to guard London s
population.
In the United States seventy per-
sons are worth s2,7OO,O0O,O0O; and
less than fifty of these can control
the currency and commerce of the
country at days notice. One
hundred are worth s3,000,000,000
and %, 900 own half the total wealth.
The census shows that the rail-
roads of tn country own 281, 100000
acres OF land, and foreign and do
mestic syndicates own 85,000,000.
The total number of farmers in the
United States is 4,225,955 and OF
these 1,024,701 are renters; of this
number, 702,224 are compelled to
share their crops equally with their
landlords, while the greatest share
asked of the British farmer is one
fourth.
In New York city 10000 of the
100000 inhabitants own nearly
J the whole city, and only $4,000 own
any real estate.
In Chicago-population less than
| 2 II per cent own all the real
estate.
The total number of mortgages in
this country, according to Census
Superintendent Porter, is 100000
or one to every seventh. inhabitant.
Total number of milEonaires 80
| 600. Total number Of people out Of
work over million. Tramps num>
Der nearly 100000.
| 1t is estimated that 10000 chil>
dren die annually in this country
from lack of food. In 1880 there
were $1,000 homeless children in
the United States.
In New York 10000 women are
so poorly paid that they must accept
| charity coll rhair hnd;nc ~ eIo~uo