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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
SHORT LESSONS IN ECON.
OMY.

1t has been CalCulated-and it is fully
admitted by such economic authorities
on the capitalist side as David \. Wells
and Edward Atkinson-that 900 bar.
rels of flour delivered at the bakers
oven in New York city cost 1000 days
labor. This includes the labor spent in
blowing the ground; sowing, harvesting
and threshing the wheat; converting
the wheat into flour; cooperage, pack
ing and transportation; and finally. the
labor spent in repairing all the machin-
other words, one years labor Of four
men, each working 800 days, will sup
ply all the flour that one thousand per-
sons consume III year, at the prevail
ing average rate of one barrel per an
mum for every man, woman or child.
On the one hand, then, we have 900
barrels of flour, which, delivered to the
consumers in New York city, cost them
in money not less than $1,000. On the
other hand, we have 1900 days labor,
which, at the average rate Of $50 per
day, gives $500 as the actual cost of
producing. transporting and delivering
that flour. The difference, 300, con-
stitutes the net profit of the capitalists
who own the instruments of production,
transportation and exchange.
Reward of labor, $500; reward of
capital, $4,000.
Bear these figures in mind. readers,
for they are important.
We shall say no more to-day upon
that subject. Next week, and every
week thereafter, we shall draw Conclu-
sions or give new facts-one at time
and very gently, as it were; so that no
one may justly complain of any at
tempt on our part to bewilder him into
Socialism by overtaxing his memory or
his power of reasoning.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
SEEKING A SOLUTION.

A great deal is being said in different
parts of the United States about adopt
ing protit-sharing in cotton mills. So
far as the operatives are concerned, the
protit-sharing will certainly benefit a
little all those who work by the piece,
but it is very doubtful if those working
by the day will get any benefit from it.
The capitalists and agents prominent in
the movement do so because it will en-
able them to get more work out of the
operatives, and very likely the strictest
economy will be exercised. 1t is openly
declared to be impossible to get all the
work possible out of a day hand under
the present system. The day wage
worker always has surplus quantity of
energy dormant within him which it is
impossible to get out of him.
The new suggestion has many attrac-
tons for selfish employers. The system
will have tendency to show men hav-
ing high salaries how to economic.
That is, whenever a job does not take
every minute of laborer's time during
the day, subdivision can take place;
say, for instance, that three men or
three women are engaged in a certain
class of work at eighty cents day
apiece, and by little extra exertion
and working increasingly. two can be
made or bribed to perform what it re
quired three to do before. In order to
effect this economy ninety cents will be
offered. That is, ten cents will be Civ en-
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
MONOPOLY AND SOCIALISM.

The tremendous gains in popularity
that socialism is making in this country
are the natural outcomes of the aston
ishing abuses of the principle of indi-
vidualism that are going on all around
us. For example, certain number of
persons invest 100000 in the plant of
gas works, and then by manipulation
cause the gas takers to pay interest on
capital, in stock and bonds, OF $1,000
900; that is, more than three times the
original investment. The owners of
sugar refneries having market value
of not over $10,0O0,000, arrange by
combination to capitalize their property
at $50, 900, 900, and to earn on this, at
the expense of the consumers of sugar,
what would be large profit on an in
vestment of $150,000,000. These are but
samples Of operations which are going
on all over the country. Competition,
nthe old sense of the term, is crushed
out of existence, and the consumers of
commodities of all kinds are gradually
losing the chance to purchase except
from one producer, with the necessity
of paying him such price as he may
demand. This being the case, it is in
evitable that a constantly growing
number of people will look to social
istic government as a means of relief
from the despotism of trade monopolies.
-BoStOn Herald.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
COMMUNICATIONS.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS plain;
boil down" your letters; make them short
Write only on one side Of the paper. Be as good
natured as you can be under the circum-
stances.
To the UOrkmen'S AdrOcdte:
In No. 26 | find the following aston
ishing declaration: ga Socialist must
strive to the end that individualism be
abolished, and that in a future society
social products shall be distributed &C
cording to the measure of necessity
This spirit Mr. Stahl wishes to infuse
into the platform. 1t would ruin the
party. Whether just or not, Mr. Stahl is
not Socialist, according to the platform
and the writings of those regarded as
leaders. Socialism will promote indi-
vidualism. Only that expression of in
dividualism called greed is to be
thwarted, leaving a thousand other ex.
pressions of the principle greater scope.
AS we'll try to abolish appetite.
Mr.. Gronlund wrote: Then liberty
will be realized for the first time, for
dependence on individualism will cease.
Individuality will, for the first time,
have real opportunity of developing
itself, and property will be placed on an
unimpeachabe basis-that of being the
result of ones own exertions. Every
body will for the first time have a
chance of acquiring property"
Looking Backward" does not contain
Mr.. StahI's doctrine. Where did he get
his scientific Socialism,? 1t is work
enough to be continually refuting
opponents who charge that Socialism
destroys individualism. If alleged So
cialists verify their charges from mis-
taken or insidious motives, matters will
be hopelessIy complicated, success de-
layed, and harmony destroyed. zENo.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

OF far higher order than the elucu-
brations of the New York World are
the contributions of the Baltimore Sun
to the economic literature on Trusts and
Monopolies. The series of articles by
VIM. L. Wilson, which our Maryland
contemporary has just begun to pub
lsh, promises to cast upon those finan-
cial monsters the light of scientific in
quiry. Their origin, progress and ten
dency are fit subjects, not for ignorant
declamations, but for studious investi-
CATION; and if the research be conducted
with skill, it is not only the nature of
the growth, but the heretofore unknown
qualities of the soil in which it has taken
root that will be revealed by careful
analysis. The Baltimore Sun is certainly
not inclined to the advocacy of Social
ism. but to those who believe, as we do,
that the Socialistic doctrine has nothing
to fear, and everything to gain from
the enlightenment of the people, light is
welcome from all quarters; and from all
quarters it will soon be coming in floods.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

cocted by Bismarck, 1t is, in fact,
pretty well understood by a great ma
iority of the wage workers Of this coun-
try that what the Socialists want is not
the perpetuation Of wage slavery under
a political despotism, but the establish
ment of industrial cooperation under
political freedom; not new tax upon
their earnings for the support Of an in
solent bureaucracy, hut the abolition of
that greatest Of taxes--the profits Of an
overbearing plutocracy. And 1t has
begun 10 dawn upon them not only that
such aspirations are quite reasonable
and eminently practical, but that if
Socialism can succeed anywhere it will
be in this country, which has not yet en-
tirely lost the power Of self government,
and which offers for the administration
of a cooperative commonwealth body
of free citizens, whose skill, industry
and honesty are as remarkable as their
past su omission to the most intolerable
oligarchy that eye- succeeded in impos,
ing itself on any people.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

for doing work that previously cost
forty cents for doing, | would like to
learn in what direction the thirty cents
saved would 90. Another thing would
result from such economy; the one who
was discharged would help to overstock
the labor market. OF course, that
would be pleasing to agents of capital,
but not very pleasant for the common
laborer. y dde's Fibre and Fabric.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
ATTENTION !

In another part Of this paper, under
the caption, Facts for AL will
be found Il rather long but timely
article, intended az a preface, or intro
ductjon, to the weekly reviews of the
industrial movement which we propose
to publish in future issues Of the
WORKMEN'S ADVOCATE, beginning July
20. These reviews will be of practical
value in high degree, and our read
ers will do we'll to preserve them for
reference. No intelligent man should
neglect to inform himself concerning
the practical workings of the wage sys-
TEN, under which we must live, SO
long as the working classes do not feel
strong enough to abolish it, or wise
enough to replace it by a system rooted
in distributive justice. Much less
should any wage worker fail to keel
track of those vast schemes and manip
uIations upon which hangs his daily
| broad
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM.

1t is authoritatively stated that Eng
fish capitalists have invested $200,00O,-
900 in American industries within one
year. An English syndicate has been
formed to purchase grain elevators
throughout the United States. Within
the last twelve months eleven American
breweries have been capitalized in Lon
don at figures averaging f27S,00O. Eng
lish investments in Mexico seem to be
increasing with the regularity of arth-
metical progression. In 1886 they
reached two and half million sterling;
in 1887 five millions, and last year nearly
eleven millions. baltimore Sun.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
To the W0rknaen's Advocate :


The criticism of our arty's Platform,
started in No. 26 of the WORKMEN S AD-
voCATE by Comrade Henry Stahl, seems
to me to be based largely on a mere
bubble of words. There is virtually
no difference between the old and the
new versions of the platform thus crit
icized, except that the latter is less OBJ
scure and open to neutrality-suspicious.
than the former. The old version reads,
substantially; 1--WE demand that the
land, etc, and the products Of labor be-
come the common property of the whole
people, and that all production and
distribution be organized comparatively,
the distribution to be according to the
serrice rendered. and to the just needs of
the individual"
The obscurity lies in the misleading
phrase: 1.-The products of labor to be.
come the common property of the whole
people" That may mean either that
everybody should own everything, or
that nobody should own anything Ii
may mean that chaos and anarchy
should rvlgn supreme in the economic
relations of men, or that absolute state
despotism should enslave men more
, than ever. As matter of fact, how
ever it goes neither to the one extreme
nor to the other, but the platform suffi-
GENTLY explains itself further on in de-
claring that the distribution Of the prod
uctS should be organized comparatively,
be carried on under the direction of the
Commonwealth, according to the service
rendered, and the just needs Of its indi-
uiduals."
This very same idea is much more
clearly and ably expressed in the new
version by striking out the offensive and
misleading parts of the old platform.
Continued on third pdge.)
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

In the first six months of the current
year there were $40 strikes in the
United States, involving SO, 2jS strikers
as against 436 strikes involving l72, 1872
strikers in the first half of 1888, and j54
strikes affecting 222, 023 strikers in the
first half of 1887. The total number Of
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
What mountebank this Joe Pulitzer,

What a mountebank this Joe Pulitzer,
red in the face, foaming at the mouth,
declaming against trusts and syndi-
Gates. It's Of no use, Joe; the trusts
are, like the World itself, an inevitable
product of capitalism. But you know
this as well as we do, and, wisely
enough, you turn your knowledge into
Doodle. That great middle-class, which
supports so handsomely in every large
city a few scandal-mongers of your
kind or kin, hates, of course, the trusts
that will surely kill it. You talk for
money, Joe; Price, cents. Cheap talk,
and vain; but it pays.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
July Is, 1850.
FRAUDULENT JOURNALISM.

r HNO OOLE uoOhlNHLiOm' |
Ever SO dishonest in all that relates to |
the labor movement, the New \ Ork Stul, |
as a matter of course, is never more |
hypocritical and insdious than when it |
deals with Socialism. In its issue of
last Sunday an editorial article APP
peared the very title Of which, State
Socialism Organized in Germany be-
trays at once the PeCksniiiian character
and Tartut1ian methods of our wonder
fully esteemed contemporary. Taking
as his text the various schemes of com
pulsory insurance against the disable
ment of wage workers by sickness, acct
dent and old age which Bismarck has
successfully pushed through the Reichs-
tag, the writer observes:
"While muzzling, imprisoning or ban
ishing the professional reformers, who
profess to have the interest of the poor
at heart, he has himself carried out the
most extensive project Of social guaran-
tees ever seriously framed, and has thus
in good faith kept large part of the
promise made before the war with Aus
tria to Ferdinand Iassalle."
In conclusion he says
rs the State Socialism organized on
such colossal scale by Bismarck cap
able of successful application? The
opinions of German economists differ
widely on this point But all are agreed
that if the system can succeed anywhere
it will be in Germany, which is thor
oughly habituated to desp0tic instltu-
tons, and which offers for its admins
tration body of trained civil servants
whose skill, industry and honesty are as
remarkable as their bureaucratic inso.
lence would be intolerabe to any other
people"
To those who know the facts we need
not say that any man who would hon
estly write such nonsense could far
more Justly be called an ass than the
system of compulsory insurance estab-
lished by Bismarck can be called State
Socialism The evident dishonesty of
the Sunny" scribler in question saves
him, however, from the imputation of
asinine simplicity. He is plainly a
downright knave, who, presuming upon
the imperfect knowledge of his readers
concerning German affairs in particular
and Socialism in general, would have
them believe that the abominabe de-
vices resorted to by the greatest politi-
cal despot of the age for the consolida-
ton of wage slavery are actually social
istic. To use an expression highly
priced in the editorial rooms of our dis
ingenious and maleyolent contempt
rary, the purpose of that writer is 'as
plain as a pikestatf." If Socialism can
thus be branded, the very name of it
must become so odious to the American
people that they will desire to know no
more about it,
Fortunately, it is rather late in the day
to persuade any intelligent man that the
economic system advocated by Ferdin-
and Lassalle and his successors is the
mixture of State prison regime, life in
surance swindle and pension fraud con-
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

The Albany Independent Citizen gives
a list of twenty-five milhonaires whose
aggregate wealth is over one billion
dollars. We venture to say that there
is not one Socialist among them.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

Talk of civil service reform, while the
devil himself is in both the service and
the reform.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
GEORGE AND HYNDMAN.


tator' that the capitalist press is inclined
to boom up? No one will deny that
the favor shown him by such papers as
the New York u Orh and the New York
Heruld has more than once been cause
Of general surprise Nor was the sur
prise always painful to the enemies of
labor For instance, the praise be.
slowed upon him for the aid he gave to
the Chicago hangman on memorable
occasion could well be approved and
fully endorsed by all the benefciaries
of social injustice. Again, take the re.
cent public discussion in London be-
tween George and Hyndman. A costly
cablegram, such as George himself
might have dictated, and purporting to
be d report of the debate, was given the
most prominent place in the columns of
the World. Hyndman, as everybody
knows, is the most eminent of English
| Socialists AS man Of learning and
an orator he stands hundred cubits
! above the little man Of the single land
tax OF his argument, not a word in
the cablegram. 1t was enough for the
purpose Of the World, to assert that this
argument, which must indeed have
been remarkable, had been met by
George at every point. Enough? No;
for it was asserted in the same breath
that all the Socialists present at the
meeting had suddenly turned rabid
land takers on seeing clearly, through
Georges telescope, that "the land tax
would achieve all the objects Of Social
ism
1t is barely possible that, remember
ing his fiasCo in the New York debate
with ShevitCh some two years ago, and
his more recent fiasCO in Paris, George
on this occasion suddenly turned {
"rabid socialist proclaimed that he
sought the abolition of wage slavery
declared that the single land tax wa
only small means to a great end, I
mere entering wedge, as the free trad
ers would say, and finally pointed to hi
advocacy Of government ownership il
the matter of railroads, telegraphs, ga
works, water works, etc., as an evidenc
of his State Socialism; in which cas-
the followers of Hyndman, ana Hynd
man himself, for that matter, Nigh
well have applauded the conversion 0
George, his complete surrender
We do not say, of course, that sucl
were the utterances of George in hi
debate with Hyndman. Probably the
were quite different. At any rate, W
. must wait for particulars from homes
sources. Nor should it be construed
from what we say, that, KNOWN
George as we do, we would trust him
or in any way be reConciled to him,
he were to hold such language in thi
city. But we assert most emphatiCal
that the cablegram published by tn
U'orld is a cdndrd of the finest feather
and that the purpose of it was to arres
the threatening advance of Socialism i
this country by diversion in favor c
the land tax.
In other words, the capitalist pres
favors George because his single.lanC
tax scheme, if it ever were possible I
carry it out in this country, could in II
way in jure the material interests of tn
% capitalist class, or curtail its power.
Let the few workingmen who ar
still, here and there, the dupes of tn
land tax illusion, perceive at last wha
the mortal enemies of Labor have lou
ago seen so plainly.
NOTES,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

Great is the tyranny of custom over
the minds of those who suffer most
from it. Take, for instance, the wage
system, which would not last one day
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13
business failures in the United States
for the same period was 6,037 this year,
as against 5,401 last year

They have a great exhibition in Paris,
where nearly all the nations Of the
earth are making wonderful display
of their respective wealth. They should
by all means, make also a display of
their respective poverty. An interna-
tional exposition of the rags and dry
crusts of bread which are in every land
the reward of the wealth producers
might prove instructive if not attrac-
tive.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

A protectionist paper of this city sug.
gests that "morals be taught regularly
and Systematically in the public schools"
What sort of morals - protection or
free trader Surely, our contemporary
does not mean that any other than CAPT
talistic morality should be taught in the
pu bic schools. For instance, he would
not have our children taught that the
wage system is the direct cause of all
thieyery and prostitution.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

As may be seen by the figures of our
national debt, the Civil War has been of
some benefit to the patriotic Shylocks
and humanitarian Pecksniffs who lent
money to the government for the 0sten-
sible purpose of abolishing chattel slav-
cry. After twenty-five years of peace
and prosperity" during which they re-
ceived in interest and premiums four
times the amount of their actual in
vestment, the sum due them is still ex-
actly equal to the sum which they lent,
taking into account the depreciation of
the currency at the time they lent it.
1t Was rather warm in Duluth last
Saturday. Policemen killed strikers
and strikers killed policemen, Finally
the militia was called out, and that
settled it. If all the strikers would only
strike at the polls, in true socialistic
fashion, their ballots would most
surely annihilate the police, paralyze
the militia, and abolish capitalism. But
this they won't do Next fall, on election
day, they will again vote for capitalism
sustain the police, strengthen the mill
tia, and bind themselves more tightly
than ever into wage slavery.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-13

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our part.
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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Write plain;
boil down" your letters; make them short,
Write only on one side Of the paper Be as good
natured as you can be under the circum-
Stan
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