====================================================== 2d Table Restored. --------------------+-+-------------+----------------- Holders of Wealth. | |No. of Farms.|Value in Dollars. --------------------+-+-------------+----------------- Tenants of farms and| | | homes |1| 6,871,099| 2,837,049,500 Owners of mortgaged | | | farms and homes | | | worth less than | | | $5,000 |2| 1,483,356| 2,614,955,764 Owners of free farms| | | and homes worth | | | less than $5,000 |3| 3,078,077| 10,946,616,952 Owners of farms and | | | homes worth $5,000| | | and over |4| 1,257,620| 48,638,468,981 --------------------+-+-------------+----------------- Totals | 12,690,152| 65,037,091,197 ====================================================== The conclusions in the first two groups of families of this table now appear as trustworthy as the entire conclusions of Dr. Spahr in the 1st table, p. 28 or 29; and, that [SN: TRUSTWORTHY CONCLUSIONS.] the first two groups, made up on the basis of Mr. Holmes’ estimates, actually surpass everything in statistical importance for this country, no one will doubt, when he has read this work. For the first group represents the tenant-families that hire their farms and homes from others, being themselves propertyless. And the second group represents families that are in debt, and that are also rapidly becoming propertyless, as we shall see in Chapter V. The differences between the 1st and the 2d tables, however, appear very great. The 1st table shows that the national wealth is quite abnormally concentrated in a [SN: DIFFERENCES IN THE TABLES.] comparatively few hands, represented by the first two groups. The 2d table shows that the same wealth is more equally distributed among the families of the last two groups, than is true in the 1st table. And it is the 2d table which was compiled from the estimates that by some men were regarded as extremely moderate, and, therefore, inconsistent with the real situation of the people.