The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-08-21
PHILADELPHIA SOCIAL SCI
ENCE ASSOCIATION.
A Plea for Better Distribution.
By CHAs. NJ. DU pUY.


earned by productive industry, and
the vehicle OF these accumulations
are living men, who, while earning,
are becoming more and more i'm
pressed with the idea that they have
u right to be nourished 10y large
share of the proceeds flowing from
production. Nor should we forget
that this ycarning for large comsum-
ption by the great mass OF the human
race, so far from antagonizing the
interest Of society Is really in direct
harmony with 1t, rs thereby is Gre
ates I'M immense demand for the
results of ail useful labor, which, II
unused, will still continue to gorge
and overflow fnc markets. This pre-
sent surfeit Of productions ms now
existing in the midst Of proverty, l.
not alone confined TO manufactured
goods, but it reaches down to the
very germs and first fruits Of the land.
That gold worshippirg paper, the
Nation OF the 3d Of April, in
wrestling with this momentous ques-
ton, an or, ess Of products, says:
"'rhe preparation for increased
supplies Of wheat which are now
going on in various parts OF the
world, particularly in India, promises
a glut In food, very like that which
we are witnessing in clothing.
The probabilities are, too, il we may
judge from what Is passing on the
Congo, that the most fertile portions
OF Africa will soon be pierced by rail
roads and steamers, and another
food of eatables let loose on the
world. What Is now needed anpar-
entity, most OF all, to keep prices up,
is more customers, or better appe-
tites. Nothing but a great and rapid
increase in the size OF families. will
suffice to keep our farmers and man
ufacturers out OF difficulties.
The existing machinery OF produc
ton is clearly running far ahead of
the present normal growth OF pop
ulation in the various civilized coun-
tries. Even our system OF doubling
population in twenty-five years will
not do. We must double in ten years
il we are to keep our farmers and
manufacturers out Of trouble, or else
get the Africans to wear two suits OF
clothes year. and take more regu.
lar and fuller meals" Such are some
Of the absurd arguments to which
gold theorists are pushed. in cropping
to find a way out Of the dilemma to
which the gold basis has brought
the world.
Arecent telegram from England
tells of 10000 men out OF work at the
Tyne ship yards. while 1GO steamers
lie idle at the docks. At Shields alone
are 1000 unemployed scamen, while
all the ports are crowded with suff-
ering and destitute sailors. Such at
present is English commerce on the
seas where she holds the suprem-
acy. Her manufacturing industries
mt home, where keen domestic and
foreign competition is now so fever
ishly contending for the mastery, Is
in a far worse condition.
A recent English writer on the
condition Of trade. says:
with all the complaints OF dullness
OF trade, and depression OF comm
cree, there never was time when
we have had so much money in re-
serve. We have money invested
in every conceivable corner of the
Globe. Wooden factories and cot
ton mills in Westphalia, Sayony, and
other parts of Germany. Austria,
and Russia. Iron and Steel Works
in Russia. Belgium, France and Ger
many. Our capital furnishes the
wherewithal to silk industries in It.
ally. Switzerland, and France. We
own many Of the velvet factories Of:
Roubaix and Lille. The lace factor.
les of Lille, Brussels, and Valcncien-
mes, etc. belong to Engiishmen. We
supply water and gas to more than
half the cities and towns of the
world, and are deeply interested in
almost all the railroads and tram
ways everywhere, to say nothing OF
mines harbors and docks Of many
leading ports. National and local
lines give us good returns. We
have capital earning good interest
in all our colonies, and many IL fine
enterprise in the United States con-
tributes To our animal growth. Yet
with all this undoubted wealth and
financial control, our commerce Ian
guishes and the whole world appears
to he over supplied with manufact-
ured goods
Here then Is a vivid picture Of an
enormous plethora Of money among
the interest and dividend drawing
class in England. where production
is starving. In country where one
out OF every forty of the population
is panper, and where i very large
proportion of the people scarcely
know how to provide bread from
day to day, owing to great depres-
sion Of industries and lack OF prop.
er distribution, there exist u few Sc
curity holders Astounding in wealth
These from their annual surplus
are always seeking fresh investments
as IL still further mortgage OH pro.
duction.
One OF the gloomiest deliverances
on this subject comes through the
Sheffield Telegraph for May l. The
leading editorial says:
| The national expenditure grows
a pace, but the national income re-
fuses To grow. Work decreases
wages sink lower. property Of all
kinds shrinks In value, securities be.
come daily more insecure, and by
the general subsistence, tens oil
thousands of persons who lately be-
lieved themselves financially indie
pendent, are each losing the savings
Of ii lifetime. Thus the poor ARE
made poorer, while the upper class
people are made the less able to
help them, and the most serious as
pcct Of this state Of things is, that i,
exists ia spite Of the large inflow oil
dividends Oh money invested in for.
eign lands and In the Colonies, and
in spite Of that huge export Of coal
aud pig iron which daily eats into
Lngland's nature given capital.
ITO be continued merit areek,)
A WRITER To John Swinton's Paper
| from Detroit Mich over tha sirn.,