Daily Republican., 1879-07-22
THIRD EDITION.
,S.,nnly and I,ensa N y.

of your paper to place before the people
the all important question Of supply
and demand, my object in doing 50 Is
to agitats the suhjset aai draw ell; he
opinion of others WITH a view 70 provide
a remedy.
There is row an extraordinary SUP
ply for the wants Of humanity whrtDer
real or imaginary and it needs but
little reflection on our part to cr'ns tn-
fact to remembrance as illustrated by
our overlooking store houses filed with
every thing that the mind can im.slne
or the heart desire; their products are
tn result in . great measure Of the
wonderful machinery that is now in
operation producing and reproducing
with precision and rapidity thai rs
almost beyond comprehension.
This machinery is now doing the
work formerly performed by men, caus-
ing supply OF men for Industrial pnr-
suits fife that far exceeds the demand.
For this state of affairs there must be
a remedy provided, there is no evading
this issue. The present arrangement pro
yides that the work shall b- done by q
portion of the people, who shall labor,
say ten hours per day, and b. supplied
with tho comforts of lie as the result
OF their tolls. 1t ALSO prosii-s ,hal
another portion of the people who ale
anxious to help with tie aforesaid la
Dor, shall remain in idleness, supported
in an Indifferent manner, ekeing out
an existence as best they Can, bat in
the long run costing far more ior their
support than those who perform the
work. A little reelection on our
part will convince us that it costs tar
more to maintain the idle than it dors
to support the industrious. 1t is mostly
from the unemployed that luna tes are
furnished for these expensive institu-
tiens: the prisons, poor houses and
grog shops.
In . great many other respects ex.
pense and trouble are brought upon
Sciety mostly from the unemployed.
1t is self evident fact, that whether
employed or unemployed society will be
compelled to support the people, es-
pecially will this be so while the land
Is overhowing with plenty. Now the
question arises in view of this state OF
affairs, what shall the remedy BIZ. 1t
will not te difficult for,us to conclude
looking upon our people as one family,
that the family must be supported;
upon this we will bs bound to agree;
then under this state of affairs is it
right for US to arrange matters so that
one half of the family shall do all the
" 'rk, and the other half shall be mad q
to eat the bread of idleness because
we are not willing that they should
perform their part of the burden.
II this unreasonable arrangement is
to BE- continued, is it not natura! 20
suppose that forced levies will be made
upon ,ciety by those who are compell-
ed by circumstances to make the levy.
There is portion of the people who
would rather beg than steal; there is
another portion of the people who
would rather steal than beg; these
things depend upon the inherited
mental condition, and social rearing
and for this condition society is more
10 blame than they. believe that il
even handed justice and fair equill-
brium were esta tablished in the affair
of men, that there would be very few
that would not prefer to render al
honest return for what they receive
The people are not near as corrupt a.
some think. The germs of development
and reformation ars within them, and j
they were not forced into state 0
slavery by the circumstances, whicl
an unjust social condition throws
around them, the power of truth anu
Righteousness would more safely as.
sert itself, and this earth would be 8
paradise compared with what it is a.
present.
A remedy that now suggests itself to
my mind is that all the people labor
five hours per day instead of halt the
people laboriug ten hours per day. This
arrangement will not cost us any more
money than the present arrangement
does, for we now provide for all the
people and are bound to do SO as here
tofore described, and we would not dc
more when all the people We're en
ployed. The same result would be at
tanned by all the people working iiv,
hours that .ould be attained by hal
the people working ten hours. But w'
would have this difference in our iavn
under the five hour system, we woul,
create an equilibrium, and /
general state of fairness alc
mutual satisfaction, that would soon
manifest itself in the social condl
ton. Gu, reading rooms would tlirA t
filled, and the thousands Of dusty vol
shelves would then be made Use OF by
the hungry minds released iro,n tn,
slavery Of clrcr INSTANCES Lew iAsti Il
tiOns would be built for innocent anus
ment and recreation: more libralie
would be erected ,mind would be brough
in contact with mind, and the truth
would fasten itself more rapidly upon
the souls OF men. Money would no
then be worshipped like it now is; pei
sons of wealth would then find fal
greater pleasure in adding to the con
forts Of others than they Low do il
catering to their own selfish demands ;
would like to hear from others "n th.s
subject, for under the providence o
God it is before US to solve, and If VI
are not willing to provide a proper ant
peaceful remedy, then in the nature o
tlings a more iorcible one will b,
Drought. to bear. The development 0
the age is upon US, God has worked il
rnyst rious way his wonders to per
form, h- does not intend that the mind
OF man shall be chained down to the
drudge life, hut has ordained that ma
chinery shah do the work, SO that tht
mind Of man Shall he free to reason
with hun over the great truths tha