Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

now idle might And work IL they
would accept it at the price Of the
actual benefit their work was to the
person employing them.
Again, while many thousands OF
them are most reputable people, there
are still many thousands more whose
violation of every condition of COM
fort and happiness f0rbids the sym.
pathy Of every well-wishcr to the
community. The best interests of all
demand that they be separated into
as small bodies as circumstances will
admit of, and 80 many as possible
sent into the country.
/ Q.-Shall we assist thom where
they are? Is it not the duty Of tho
Government to aid them?
| A. Nothing is go. destructible to
the moral fibre as charity; II should
never be bestowed ON any man In
sound health, If II can be avoided.
Certain kinds of Governmental as
distance can be safely given. Whom
any man becomes a public charge, he
and those dependant on him should
be transferred, when practicable, to
the place of his legal settlement, the
certainty OF which would stimulate
to exertion. When this cannot be
done, they should be fed, clothed,
sheltered, and cared for, As are labor
ers in building our railways, and put
on some public work. No man in
sound health should ever be allowed
anything except in return for honest
work, and the fact that no one will
give him work and pay that will sup
port him should, as rule, be conclu-
sive evidence that his labor..is worth
no more to the public than his shell
ter, food, and clothing.
Every city, every county, and every
state ought to project public works
to be done by such persons, and ev-
cry healthy man who cannot support
himself should be compelled to work
upon them until such time as he can
himself find work.
Q.-How about supply and de-
mand9 Will not supply exceed de-
mand, especially in these days of la
bor.saving machipery2
| A.-No; not in ordinary times.
Taking given period Tin the his
tory Of this country OF about twenty
years), production and consumption
will equal each other.
| Civilization is the increasing of
rational wants by fully supplying
those we have. A want supplied, act
ually creates q dozen more and our
rational wants, and the labor neces.
sary to supply them, are as illimitable
as human progress. No assistance
men can command from labor-saving
machinery, or from any other source
whatsoever, will enable them to out
strip their demands, or can be detri-
mental to their interests,-and least
of all TO those of manual laborers.
Absolute necessities are relatively less
and less. Comparative necessities
and luxuries are rapidly increasing,
and must inevitably increase. They
are the exponents and substance OF
social progress. They are not in
themselves superfluities any more
than arc the higher branches of men.
tai training.
Probably more than ine-tenths ol
the work Of the wage.class is done in
producing things not absolute neces.
stiles, aud nearly all OF that done by
other classes.
/ No rejecting, candid man will a.
sert that there is any one of the myr.
lad occupations, excepting those
which pander to the vices of men
that does not perform its share in the
work of social progress, and Is MOI
for the good of all.
No injury comes to any one by
money being spent in luxuries by
those who have the capital to purchase
them, Quite the opposite is true.
The trouble comes from men spend
ing in them the capital OF others,-
that is, living beyond their income
The money thus spent comes out oi
capitalists; not a dollar can be taker
from any other.
/ OF the many billions of losses dur
ing the last five years, every dollar
falls ON the capitalist class; and thu
wage class only feel the burden in iti
lessening the ability Of capitalists Il
continue to employ them.
4 Q.-What rate Of interest have Dor
rowers of undoubted credit had t
pay on money during the last thre,
years, and would an additional issu'
of paper money by the Governmen
4, benefit the manufacturer, the wage
clasa, or anybody in the communi
ty?
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and eha ;nd;snntehla fsc, th.t isra
mounts nf csn;ts, cannot Ard MOI,
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. mnch more irredee mable can favor
} .hlv !. .Tact hms;nos. g. .rv othsr ~
terests OF the country, and least Of d
the wage class.
The wage class 10 the creditor clas
without exception. II any issuing O
> paper, so-called money, :s made b.
|, the Government, not dollar Of it cal
: reach the hands of any one Of then
: in any conceivable way, EXCEPT ii
payment Of wages, or by distribution
Of it pro rata. The honest working
I man who is now receiving gold or it
: equivalent would receive . poore
money and his wages would be re
= duced thereby to just the extent Q
q the issue OF paper money.
q The debtor classes are In fact tn
: so-called capitalists, holders of real
estate, manufacturers, mechanics
4 bankers, etc etc, including all thos
q known 40 middle-men.
All property In the country, 40
\ rule, 10 held on margins, represente
= by notes, bonds, mortgages, etc
i which can only be paid by passin
: tho money that 10 to cancel theI
through the hands Of laboring me
,. IN the shape Of wages very man