And third and last comes my class, the proletariat, which is composed of the wage-workers.* * This division of society made by Everhard is in accordance with that made by Lucien Sanial, one of the statistical authorities of that time.

His calculation of the membership of these divisions by occupation, from the United States Census of 1900, is as follows: Plutocratic class, 250,251; Middle class, 8,429,845; and Proletariat class, 20,393,137.
"You cannot but grant that the ownership of wealth constitutes essential power in the United States to-day.

How is this wealth owned by these three classes?
Here are the figures.

The Plutocracy owns sixty-seven billions of wealth.

Of the total number of persons engaged in occupations in the United States, only nine-tenths of one per cent are from the Plutocracy, yet the Plutocracy owns seventy per cent of the total wealth.