Plutocracy's Statistics: Statistical Lies and Liars; Official and Unofficial (Classic Reprint)

Plutocracy sS tatistics. By H. L. BLISS. eINTRODUCTION. That our political campaigns may not degenerate into campaigns of lying misrepresentation but may be truly campaigns of education, the exposure of misstatements intended to mislead the public becomes of first importance. While there is room for difference in conclusions, there can be no honest difference in the statement of ascertained facts from which conclusions are drawn. An honest cause needs never a lying defense, but finds in the truth its strongest support. There therefore can be no more conclusive evidence of the wickedness of any cause than the fact that its promoters deliberately and systematically resort to misrepresentation. Under our form of government, every man being armed with the ballot, it is impossible to rob the people through unjust laws, until the public has first been fooled. The beneficiaries of the injustice of existing social and economic conditions understanding this, and discovering that the most effective way to conceal thejtruth is to hide it under a statistical table, adopt the statistical method, and base their misleading arguments upon a countless and bewildering array of statistics claimed to be authoritative and indisputable. The exposure of the true character of these statistics and authorities, is the purpose of this pamphlet.
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