The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-09

that, afilrmatively speaking, they have
put increased power more actual fnan-
clal rewards. into the hands of the
masses? The answer is. yes. In a re-
cent contribution to the Atlantic Month
~ by Carroll d. Wright. chief of the
teueial bureau of labor statistics, an au-
thorlty acknowledged as good by the la
boring classes, the following appears:
Analysing the statistics. we find some
remarkable results, and in general. that
the number engaged in the lowest walks
OF business, laborers and the like. is de-
creaslng in proportion, while those en-
ployed in the higher walks are increas-
nag IN number relatively to the whole pop
ulation'
Concerning the wage question. this
laoor commissioner declares: Fortunate
~ we are not obliged to depend upon the
rates OF wages to show that the ordinary
man IS better of than at any former pc
ROD in our history, because our censuses
report aggregate earnings, and also the
number of persons among whom the earn
lngs are divided. Looking at this side of
the problem, We find that in 1850 the av-
erage annual earnings of eacn employee
engaged in manufacturing and mechanical
pursuits, including men, women and chill
dren, in round numbers were S247; in 1862
$3.50; in 1870, 1902; in 1880, $347 and in 1890,
$440. Here is a steady, positive increase in
the average annual earnings of the en-
ployes in our great industrial pursuits
Prof. Mulhal, a well-recognized au-
thority, in comparing the census data of
1880 and 1880, finds that between these
periods the annual product of the factory
operative has increased from $1.924 to 81
247. This increase in power must be at
tributed most largely to invention, and to
the more effective coordination of capital
and ability in management Nevertheless,
No Of afs,vftxr
has been fully shared in by the operative,
since it appears that while his productive
ty has increased 70 per cent, his reward in
the way of wages has increased II per
cent.
I'm a late study of this question by w.
H. Mallock, of Great Britain, he brings
out some striking conclusions, from which
1 quote two or three para graphs ''In 1913,
seven years after Victoria became queen,
the gross income of the entire people, lab
orers, landlords, capitalists, and all, was
f515, ZOO 600, of which f23j 900, 900
went to the laboring class. In
1898, fifty years later, the income of the
laboring class was 5000, 1000.
The laboring class had increased q per
cent, while their income had increased
nearly 200 per cent. From all the data he
deduces the conclusion that, through the
aid of invention, the increase of capital,
the marshaling of industrial forces I'M
der the control and direction of ability, the
working people now have divided among
them a share man for man, of the an
nual income of Great Britain. larger than
their fathers in 1910 would have received,
had the whole public income of that pc
Rod from all sources, been divided among
them"
The institute was presented to the trus-
tees by the founder, Mrs Bradley, and
accepted in their behalf by their presi-
dent, Oliver j. Bailey.
An address in behalf of the faculty was
delivered by F. R. Harper, president of
the University of Chicago, who IS also
president of the faculty OF the Bradley In
stitute.