Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-15

way inneuidtely.
be 81 rthn'der and Hall remain stepped In
silence, until Jim returns with Professor
smith
81 am happy you are there, my
dear Professor. This young man here
Is the one -. you remember the
one we spoke about.
Prof. (tCHh u stern cOuntenanee)-
And such an abandoned fellow do !
find in your housef
S. He is truly an industrious young
man in whom / take IA lively interest,
and would like to save him from the i'm
mora! errors into which he has fallen.
ITV In that | recognize your noble
heart. You are welcome, young man.
81 was just engaged in showing
him his errors. 1t would have been an
easy thing to me to refute his false state
ments, but | prefer to leave that to you,
to the man OF science.
PTof-We have no higher desire than
to turn our science to the elevation of the
people.
Sin that recognize the well,known
nobility of your nature.
H-Shall we come to the point?
S.-You are right. Speak.
H. shall repeat my question:
When you, sir, sell your manufactures,
you find that all the capital that has
been consumed, that all outIays in a
word, are restored to you by the prices
which the goods fetch. But over and
above that you also find that there are
left to you about $4,000 year. An
additional value has, consequently,
arisen during the process Of production.
Who has produced this add ional value:
whence does 1t Gomez
S.-fes, my dear Professor, we would
both like to know whence this additional
value proceeds.
hOt~~How can any one doubt for
moment: These $4,000, Mr.. Van Rem
selaer, are your wUges Of abstinence.
S,-What do you mean; wages of alb
stinence2
hroC-The wages for your self denial
for your abstinence.
81 abstinence Pray, do not
carry a joke too far, my dear Professor.
DO you wish to hurt my credit with the
announcement that deny myself any
thing?
Hr0f,-l am at loss to understand
you, Mr., Van Rensselaer, The capital
with which you now work would not
be there had you not denied yourself,
had you not practised abstinence in
order to save instead of consuming iu,
| had the honor TO explain to you care
fully tn, theory Of wages of abstinence
-. it vas but last Monday evening.
S.-Monday evening? Turning to
j'm); Where were we last Monday
evening?
AT Roster q Balls. A new troop
of ballet dancers had just arrived, and |
the champagne. -.
S.-Hush, you jack,assl How dare
you put III your oar at a scientific con-
versation of which you do not unde~. !
stand the first thing?
il thought you asked me -.
Shut up, | say.
Fr0f.--lt was Monday evening; we |
had conference on the social question |
and on the well.being of the working |
classes.
S.-Oh! yes. And on that occasion |
did you speak about Wages of Abstin-
ence"?
Ptot--Exhaustively. You had ac.
cidentally touched upon the labor agita-
ions and showed your Just Indignation.
81 have not the slightest recollection |
of the matter.
Fof.-l cannot understand the
ST. must have been in a dazed con-
dition -. | mean owing to overwork.
hof-lndecd, you had been studying
hard that evening. The great exer,
ton e..
S.--Yes indeed But pray proceed on
the subject of Wages of Abstinence
| do not understand the subject fully.
frQf,-Do you not Understand that it
Is due only to your economy, to your
abstinence that the capital is in existence |
wherewith you now work, and by means
of which SO many workingmen obtain
occupation and food. living and the
Of lie? Do you not consider
that instead of saving you might have
and noted away your in.
Gomez The profit on capital which you
now draw is therefore, nothing else than
the wcll-earned wages OF the abstinence
practised by you as capital gathering
henefactor Of mankind. Ii is, in word,
your cages of abstinence.
81 begin to see.
hrof,-Nothing does SO much honor to
you as the fact that, until now, You
yourself have not sufficiently appreciated
your merit.
s Excellent, my dear Professor.
H-Will you allow me question.
Professor
Prof-Ask your question, young man;
| am here for the purpose of leading YOU
from the path Of error and of Islander to
that of truth and virtue.
H-Thank you, Professor. ! wished
to know only this, You say Mr.. Van
Rensselaer, has not in earlier years rioted
away his income, but has saved" it and
that this is the reason why he now has
SO much capital, Was not this the gist
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