The Labor enquirer., 1885-01-24

must upro0t and CAST away the OiQ
t1roms rbish sstvufh eomas fAa Ian sqy'
erning the constructive portion Of the
science of sociology. Wewho proclaim
the scientific remedy for ahard times
can justly be called upon to declare the
causes for that evil which we alone
know how to abolish.
The Socialist critique of the exist.
ing competitive system upon this point
is therefore worthy of the widest atten.
ton. 1t is as follows:
The census of the United States for
1880 declares that the average working;
man adds r,UU0 annually in value to the
article upon which he works that for
this service he receives in the form OF
wages 0Hry tng sum Of $s46, the balance
$554 being wfth6eId; Of this $346 an
average Of $115, is robbed from him
under the guise of rent of the balance
remaining $50 is taken in the form Of
profit upon his purchases for subsistence
and of the balance yet remaining $S2 is
filched from him under the names ofin-
terest and taxes. This leaves him a bal
ance Of $50 with which to buy back the
$1,000 worth of added value which he
has created. For, bear in mind, he occu-
pies. not only the position of producer
but that of consumer as we'll, and in
order that the balance of production and
consumption may be maintained, the
goods created must be consumed.
Ifnot already apparent from the fore
going, a few sentences more will make
clear the absolute absurdity Of the pres
ent system where the guiding spirit of
production is solely that it may weld a
profit. The manufacturer will not per-
nit his slave 10 produce unless thsY can
ae,so 8 at g profit to him; goods being SO
produced he does not permit the con-
sumner to enjoy Them save upon payment
of an added profit which of course in
me wurEt EtnausE InIeresI,
rent and profit but the profit takers
their subsistence four of the remaining
tenths; and that the cal italist class and
their hangers-on in sheer wastefulness
absorb. three-tenths more. Even these
generous figures, far abo We the actual
truth leave upon the shelves of the
stores a so-called "over-production" of
twoItenths. " v..
At this rate of production every five
years there will be in the warehouses a
quantity of goods unsold equal to the
total amount produced in any one year
these goods will be unsaleable, not be-
cause the consumers do not need them,
but because they have not the money
wherewith to buy they have not the
money because the capitalist has permit
ted rngm to retain only one-tenth of the
necessary amount. The capitalist remedy
is 70 shut up shop and give them nothing.
Sales to the producers being thus cut off
hard times appear also epidemic among
the wage working distributors. The cap
italist remedy for this is to close up
stores and leave them also without the
money to buy the four-tenths required
for their subsistence. By this idiotic
method of arranging affairs is born the
panic" H..
During the past one hundred years
(the period of development of the great
machine industry these panics have
been necessarily periodical, occurring
at shorter and shorter intervals and with
increasing intensity at each recur ence.
For them, in order to procure the exis-
tence of the system, to keep the work.
man partially employed, to prevent the
sacklng of warehouses and the hanging
of the possessors by starving popula-
ton the capitalist class have found but
one eEremedy, NEW MARKEr For this
England in 1872 forced us into a war
whose sole object was to make us a ma
ton of commercial slaves to their manu-
facturers; for this she deluged India
with blood that Brahmin women might
wrap their slaughtered children in
shroudso of Manchester cotton; for this
she thundered at Hong Kong's gates and
forced the opium grown by the Indian
slave upon an unwilling and feeble peo.
Pile for this with bloody sword in Africa
she urges to slavish toll those aborigines
whom she has first corrupted with in.
toxicants. For this reason only Russia's
armies attacked Sebastopol and YET
crouch upon the Asian frontier for 9
thousand miles waiting for their prey
Fora market only for her absintbe anG
herindelicacies. the fleets Of France ever
now gather like birds Of prey in th'
China seas. II, n n ~ Y, (
In 1S47 the American eagle dipped it,
beak in the heart blood of Mexico, il
the name of capital and its tprophe
!! Theft. n. -
1 The war Of the Rebellion was not t.
4 preserve the Union, not to free th'
slaves but struggle for existence be
tween the manufacturers Of the North
tsrn States and the cotton kings Of Eng
land both had armies of industria
slaves; the South had market for thei
productions. Had the Confederacy be
come an accomplished fact its sovereign