The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1898-01-14
SISSIPPI. FRIDAY. JANUARY IA, 1893.
becomes more startling and cxtraor-

oSN"ihco ilOlc foIdIlllHH anu cAJIdOT-
dinary still"
"Thc total population increased
from about 27,50000O to 35,OOO,0O0,
while the income tax paying popula-
tion was, as has been said 800, 900 in
1850 and more that 4,50O, 900 in 1881.
II, then, we deduct these two amounts
from the totals at the two dates, we
have Il working class population OF
26, OOO, 600 in 1850, and OF 30,5O0,000 in
1881. The working classes have in.
creased therefore by about 10 per cent
while the middle classes have incrcas-
cd by more than 300 per cent"
In subdividlng the rich Mr.. MallOck
discovers some ground for the popular
statement, because the increase of
those with incomes exceeding $l5, 900
is three times that of those with in
comes between $4,000 and $1,000
$1,000 Of the former to 1900 of the
latter, the total number in 1881 being
Il, 900 OF the first rich class to $1,000 Of
the second. Dismissing 230 very rich
persons as exceptional" he main
tains that:
"The rich class has not only in
creased in numbers much more slowly
than the middle class, but the per-
sons composing it have individually
grown poorer instead of richer; while
the persons composing the middle
class have grown individually richer
rs well as more numerous. The In
comes, indeed, OF those who have be-
tween $4,000 and 5000 year have
remained nearly stationary-thc aver
aye income being, for both 1850 and
1881, 1865; but the incomes of those
with less than $4,000 have increased on
the average something like per cent:
while the incomes of the rich, with
the exception of 1900 persons-that is
to say, the income of ninctecn-twenti-
eths OF the whole body, possessing
sixteen-twenticths Of that body's ag-
grcgatc wealth-havc decreased on an
average of nearly I per cent"
The working classes, according to
Mr.. Mallock, instead of getting poor
or, instead of finding it harder to gain
) IA living, have increased, not in num-
bcrs, because they are constantly re-
; cruting the middle classes, but in
wealth-bOth aggregate and average
individual income-faster than any
other class in the community. lie
states their condition thus:
"During the first sixty years of this
century the aggregate incomes OF tho
working classes rose to such an extent
S that in the year 1860 it was equal fall
( deductions for the increase Of popula'
: tion being madc) to the income of all
: classes combined in the year 1900. But
4 there Is Il far more extraordinary fac,
+ to follow, and that Is, that a result
S precisely similar has been since ac
n complishcd in one-half of the time
J. In 1880 the aggregate income OF Tho
S working classes was (all deductions
It for the increase of population Dcin,
II made) more than equal to the income
d of all classes in the year 1850. Thus
Is the working classes in 1860 were il
C precisely the saIic pccuniary condition
s, as the working classes Of 1900 woult
e have been had the entire wealth o
c. the Kingdom been placed in thei
Sc hands; and secondly the working
1t classes Of today are in better pccun
m larry position than their fathers woul
,c have been could they have plumbers
~ and divived among them the wealt
SC OF every rich and middle class man |
N the kingdom at the time of the builc
0. ing OF the first great exhibition"