The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-25

the richest nation in the Wollu, snip
ports an expensive monarchy and a
class Of wealthy mobiles, owns the
Indies aud some Of the finest colonies
in the world-yet it cannot supro
the honest, industrious, sober portion
of s own working population. II is
a lsnd OF leaning, yet it does not
know low 10 make it's immense riches
support that part Of the population
which alone pIo luCes the wealth thai
makes it rich. There is talk tf over
population and oveTproduclion, when
there is neither. The larger the pop
ulation the greater the number oil
censumere, Whose needs, IL supplied,
would present demand that would
foon show there is no overproduction.
The st. Louis Republican observes that
people starve because there is too
much food, and shiver with cold be-
cause there is too much manufactured
cotton and wool; are destitute be-
cause there is too much wealth; are
underfsd and underclothed because
PRODUCTION exceeds demand; excess
Of supply leaves the people nnsup-
plied. Is there not an intense
degree OF decentralization, inconsistency,
and fact opposing fact about all this,
sufficient { convince every ref ,cting
mind that there must be s)me under
wing and widely acting error that pro-
duces such chain Of contradictions
There are vast supplies, existing and
potential, Of food whose owners be-
come poor because they cannot sell.
Passing their store doors every day
are thousands driven to desperation
by hunger because they ca1not buy,
and so OF clothing aud otherd necess'
ries. Find a way Of enabling the
hungry and the cold to buy what they
want, and their sulfsrings cease and
the sellers escape ruination. Is the
the finding of such a way
impossible to the genius ant
profound learning that exist2 The
ma Of the population is com
posed OF working people. The CAPT
talitts, ever since the toll Of industr!
took the place OF the plundering Of in
yading armies, have msde war upol
the wages OF the workers, This ha
been carried on until the workers ar,
reduced to O consumption oil the bar
necessaries OF life; they have not thu
means OF obtaining its comforts. Ii
proportion as their consumption is re
! duced the purch lse Of commodities
reduced, BY long period Of lower
ing wages the mass OF the popul alton
which should be the mass Of custom
ers OF merchandise on sale, are inca
pacit,ted from purchasing. Fo
want Of their custom the retaila
suffers, his suffering acts upon tn
wholesaler, the wholesaler upon th
manufacturer, and the manufacture
adds oil TO the already intense fam
by once more reducing the wages {
the worker, anil 80 still further d.
stroying him as purchaser. Here
the vicious circle in which lies til
mass Of misery that wrings souls wit
agony and waste bodies by the cru
scourge of cold and hunger. TIL
whole secret lies in the laws being
arranged as TO make the rich rich,
" and the po1r poorer, 80 poor that u
mass Of the English population are 7
' duced to the loves rate as co csumeT
- Let the laws aid to distributing veal
. among the many instead Of accum
lating II among the few, and the pro
lem is solved. The first and mo
important among such needed laws
one requiring that when the wealth
Al make their wills, they shall distribu
,r their property in proportion TO
amount, not leave large proportions
one or two hands. When the mass
lie the popul alton become free consui
a ers, in no country possessed OF veal
n can there be restitution among t
honest, industrious and sober.
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