Show wage earners collecting dividends A marked difference Is seen in the class of people now holding the securities curi ties ot of bur our great corporations and the holders of such securities a few ceasr ago in 1917 dividends collected by wage earners amounted to but 95 per cent of the total in 1918 this figure had risen to per cent and by 1921 to per cent of the whole the number of stockholders in the country increased from 44 in 1900 to in 1923 while the average number of shares per stockholders decreased from to 50 the ownership of our industries Is passing rapidly into the hands of the wage earners not by a wave of the political wand but by sound bus inness methods |