The Labor enquirer., 1884-09-13

oets He should have mentioned just
what they do, for have % fir fsiled TO
discover any service worth 1900, 900
per year. OF anything else that an ordi-
nary mind cannot achieve
Do they oFganize railroeds7
We have 1 million men who could do
it as well as Vanderbilt II the Law Of
wages were LEFT free the work could be
done for less than Vanderbilt received,
and when the service was once paid for
We would be released. We never get
through paying Vanderbilt for laying
out our railroad routes
have cited the wealth of the Shakers
and the Oneida Communists as examples
of capital being used without the enter
priser. In doing so have not endorsed
any of their social theories. That does
not concern their method of using capi-
tai. Suppose the two communities con-
clude they want to have railroad from
one to the other, would they be COM
PEELED to go outside of their number to
find man wise enough to furnish plans?
Would wise men be SO scarce that they
could make no better terms with the
man OF giant intellect than to give him
q perpetual mortgage on all their indus
tries?
Such course would be step in the
economic progress of society. SO they
must take it or do without the road.
think the Shakers and Communists
would omit that step in evolution and
coolly go on with the road, appointing
some one able to employ engineers, grad
ers, track layers and all the rest, paying
to each salary which would cease when
the work was done.
The only use we have for railroads is
to connect different points 1t is hard
to believe our great nation contains but
two men who can tell what points ought
to be connected.
! Right here Mr.. Schilling will claim
some of the roads have developed the
country Professor Denslow has said
that the bribing Of congress, in certain
cases. to get lands and subsidies for new
routes, was justifable because the result
was new country developed It's a
kind of DEVELOPMENT that forces people
away from civilization. 1t develops
the country but it is rough on the people.
1t is an evil, not a blessing, unless we
| admit another evil is blessing. / refer
to land monopoly. If it is rlght that
countless acres of land near us should be
kept out of use, then it is necessary to
have road through this unused land,
SO we can getto other unused lands that
nobody wants. We pay Vanderbilt $l2,-
000,000 per year for having some time
ago conceived the idea of running roads
where nobody wants them. Mr.. Schil-
ling does not believe private land owner
ship is right, therefore donot see how
he can believe that such monstrous
system ever was necessary in the eco
nomic progress of society.
will sum up and place my views in a
definite form so Mr.. Schilllng can attack
I them:
The Vanderbilts, or enterprisers, are
! not step in progress but results Of a
false system.
Neither,is the false system an essential
in societary growth any more than
| measles is an essential in the growth of
an infant. -<--t +
The motives of the enterprisers and
robbers being the same the results must
be the same
The incidental good to society which
follows from the work ofthe enterpriser
could be as well performed by clerk at
81, 600 per year, without all incentive to
larger gain. II
The hub of wheel Is no more essen
tial than the tire. ~,
Enterprisers, distributors and robbers
perform no services that entitle them to
more wealth than should go to producers
Regarding Mexico, Mr.. Schilling is
clearly wrong. Mexico was peopled by
a peaceable race until the Spanish "enter-
prisers" invaded the country and taught
them civilized robbery. Perhaps they
were not intelligent enough to apply
their lessons genteelly, therefore their
thieving appears uncultured to US. '--
One more point: Mr. Schilling is very
anxious that good should come out of
evil Will excessive gambling in stocks
furnish a ray of hope for a final con-
f1ict and victorious solution ?" Not as
long as Professor Denslow and others
teach the people it is legitimate. Teach
them it is. wrong and they will forbid5it
without experiments with it. doubt
the wisdom of increasing evils in order
to abolish tSem. If Mr.. Schilling can
not take up these questions hope some
reader will respond to his appeal.
/ ZENo
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