Judge — September 24, 1892 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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comicbooks.com q . i. &£wes A Ge REPORT OF eee A | U. S. SENATE COMMITTEE. f FE REE YRA DYE. PROOF FROM PECK'S REPORT. ff (NON-PARTISAN tis First—The cost-of entering into the use of those earning less than $1000 per annum has decreased—up to May, 1892—3.4 ile in farm products there has been. an increase in prices, owing in part to an in- demand and the opening of In England, during the same period, the cost increased 1.9 per cent. Tested by their power to purchase articles of necessity, the earnings of our working people have never been as great as they are now. SECQND—There has been an average ad. vance in the rate of wages of .75 of one per cent. THIRD—There has been an advance in the price of products of 18.67 per cent., and of all cereals, 33.59 per cent. THE ninth annual report of the chief of the bureau of labor statistics of the state of New York—a Democratic officer—very re- cently issued, strongly corroborates, as to that state, the facts found by the senate com- Ii mittee. His extended inquiry shows that in | the year immediately following the passage paid in wages in that state was $6,377.92: in excess, and the aggregate producti $31,315,130 in excess of the preceding In view of this showing of crease in wages, of reduction in the co WESOSSS THE WRITING ON THE WALL.-new version.