Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — Our Earnings and Savings. [ARTICLE]

Our Earnings and Savings.

According to Mr. Edward Atkinson, but half of the 52,000,000 people of the United States can be reckoned in the working force of the nation. The earnings of this working force, male and female, cannot exceed an average of $1 a day each, for the 365 days of the year, so that the annual income of the people, in round numbers, is $10,000,000,000. He estimates that the sustenance of our population averages 45 cents a day for each man woman and child,, so that 90 cents of every dollar earned is consumed, leaving but 10 per cent, of the annual earnings to maintain existing capital and increase the nation’s wealth. His opinion is that the increase in wealth is less than $500,000,000 annually. His purpose in this exhibit is to encourage economy. Learn to work more horoughly, Vioro savingly; to raise as much as possible with as little wfts'o as possible, is his injunction. The lesson which lie teaches is the one which of all peoples on earth the people of file United States need to learn. — Exchange.