The World Almanac, 1900, p. 539. Footnote 176: This average would mean that in every 100 families 90 have 5 and 10 have only 4 members. See the decrease of family membership: foot note, p. 18. Footnote 177: “It is interesting to remark that, while in 1893 the number of the propertyless families reached over 7-millions, the national and local Building and Loan Associations having net assets of over $450,000,000, have,” in 25 years, “helped to secure” only “probably over 400,000 homes,” says Mr. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor. The World Almanac, 1899, p. 168; ib., 1900, p. 172. But that inability is aggravated by the taxation unjust to the poor. See here, pp. 174-178. Footnote 179: Encyclopedia of Social Reform, p. 1346. Footnote 180: Encyclopedia of Social Reform, p. 1346. Footnote 181: Ibid., p. 888. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s note: • Silently corrected obvious punctuation and capitalization errors. Several unpaired double quotation marks were retained as they occurred in the original text. • Unless noted below, spelling and hyphenation are retained as in the original. • Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book. Other changes: • Removed half-title page originally on first page • Page 003: thousands of like opnions → thousands of like opinions • Page 036: surplus milion families → surplus million families • Page 039: distribution of weatlh → distribution of wealth • Page 048: more wealth that → more wealth than • Page 099: in possesion of others → in possession of others • Page 108: Napoleon Boneparte → Napoleon Bonaparte • Page 132: bound, by dividogensure → bound, by dividogenesure • Page 163: In the table "Increase of Population" corrected the value for percent of population in cities for the year 1880. Changed from 2.57 to 22.57. The correct value was taken from page 18 of the 1890 census http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890d9-01.pdf pg 18 • Page 192: defintion and origin → definition and origin • Page 193: not partizan → not partisan