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as are returned in the census for all establishments. As shown in a preceding article, Colonel Wright's report on strikes and lockouts shows 13,500 females on a strike in this city and industry in 1886.
These are but a few of the very many instances of glaring discrepan- cies between census and factory inspectors' reports that might be added to those cited in the writer's preceding article. Of these and other seeming defects in census statistics to which attention has been called Mr. Steuart takes no notice, but declares that they are the only data that can be relied on as showing the actual facts. This statement, being "oiTicial," and doubtless inspired by our most eminent statistical authority, may be accepted by those who accept authority as truth. It is to be regretted that Mr. Steuart fails to indicate which class of statistics — the tables of occupation, or those of manufactures — shows "the actual facts." H. L. Bliss.
Chicago.
