However, before proceeding to examine the investigations about the people without property, we must add here, that the propertyless [SN: THE PROPERTYLESS PAY RENT OR ARE EXPELLED.] are those that occupy houses, or rooms, or simply little cells in the rentable properties of the propertied, paying rent for them. They are, therefore, regarded as the tenants of homes, and when occupying rentable farms, they are regarded as the tenants of farms. And as long as they are able to earn and to pay the rents on time, they are regarded as good people, good families and respectable persons, because they constitute the real sources of income to the owners of the rentable properties. But as soon as they cannot find a situation, cannot find employment, cannot find work, cannot find a job, cannot borrow money, cannot pawn anything, hence cannot pay rent at the well defined times, then they are gently or ruthlessly kicked out of the rooms, and regarded as “no good,” as degenerates. Expelling them from the tenement houses or farms, some gentlemen or lady-proprietors sometimes even express sympathy or [SN: CANNOT HELP THE SITUATION.] sorrow to lose their tenants; and sometimes they anticipate further sufferings and privations for their unfortunate roomers, etc., but cannot help them under the existing conditions. The expelled tenant then wanders about, suffers privations, humiliations, till he falls into prison, or she falls into prostitution, and into all the miseries of the world. And it is only at the point where these propertyless lose their real manhood and womanhood that they cease to be the sources of income for the propertied. Now let us deal with the homeless and landless in the statistical accounts, where the tenants and mortgagors are described together, but with greater details in respect to the mortgagors than to the tenants. For the sake of clearness, therefore, I must prominently represent here the tenant families, as the propertyless, and must leave the mortgagor families for the next chapter. The following census statistics represent only percentages of families occupying farms and homes in the United States, while I have supplied the figures implied in the relative percentages of these families. STATISTICS OF THE TENANTS. “Extra Bulletin No. 98 of the United States Census, 1890, says: “There are 12,690,152 families in the United States, and of these families 52.20 per cent,” or 6,624,259 families, “hire their farms or homes, and 47.80 per cent own them.”[61] “In regard to the families occupying farms the [SN: FARM FAMILIES.] conclusion is, that 34.08 per cent,” or 1,624,655 families, “hire, and 65.92[62] per cent own, the farms cultivated by them.” So that “among every 100 farm families 34 hire their farms,” being landless.