Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
than enough for all the settlers who have
come in from abroad"
Effect of I.abor-Sayine Macbfnerv

than enough for all the settlers who have
come in from abroad"
Effect of Labor-Saving Machinery.
Mr. Simpson said that he believed that
labor-saving machinery was in great de-
gree responsible for the condition of the
.workingmen. "If the laborer is to benefit
by labor-saving machinery" he said, "it
ought to reduce his hours of work or to in
crease his pay. 1t has not done either. If
1 invent machine to do the work of so men
/ throw them into the market to compete
with other laborers for the work that is
left. Water and steam and machinery are
doing the work of 100000 people in this
country"
In the course of conversation a little later,
Mr.. Simpson suggested that his correspond
ence was running behind, but that he ex-
pected to get typewriter into his room in a
day or two and catch up with it. 1 asked
him if he did not consider the typewriter a
labor-saving machine. He laughed as he
replied: "Yes, but in this case the labor is
getting the benefit OF the machine. 1 be-
lieye in machinery which saves the laborer. "
The Farmers and the Laborers.
1 asked Mr.. Simpson if he believed there
would be a coalition between the farmers and
laboring men OF the country in 1892.
Undoubtedly yes," he said. 'Gompers
and his Federation of Labor may lead few
men of, but most of the workingmen will
vote with the farmers. There is nothing in
consistent in this combination. The man
who makes hoe is as much farmer as the
man who uses it. In making that hoe he
saves the farmer the necessity of going into
the shop and making a hoe himself. And
he becomes SO expert In time that he can
make great many hoes, where the farmer
could make one.
''The storekeeper is a farmer, for be keeps
on hand the things that the farmer needs
and a great many things that the farmer
could not conveniently keep. The judge in
an agricultural community is a farmer, for
he saves the farmer the necessity OF coming
from the field to pass upon questions In dis
pute.'
"And the lawyers and newspaper men?"
l suggested.
They are all farmers" be said. ''The
newspaper men does the farmers news-gath-
ering for him. We are taking them all in
where they want to join US and making them
part of the Citizens Alliance"
He Opposes Protection.
Mr.. Simpson is violently opposed to pro-
lection which he says is a grand mistake. "
Drifting into another important political
topic Mr.. Simpson said: 81 think the
people are all wrong about this money
question. They think that money should
have a commodity value. Why, it has diff
terent commodity values. 1t represents the
value of that chair or this table at different
times. If issue a note on wealth which l
have or on wealth in prospect am issuing
money. You might as well tell me tha;
that note must be written on gold foil, IS
that currency must represent some COM
modify. If We must have hard money,
however, we favor a doubl. standard, and
so we believe in the free coinage of silver"
Speaking of his typewriter and his letter
writing, suggested to Mr. Simpson that he
ought to have phonograph which is being
used by great many men in public life for
their correspondence.
81 suppose 1 will have one of those in
tIme," he said. "What do they cost?'
explained that usually they were not
sold, but rented.
THAT'S another monopoly, suppose"
said the granger statesman. 'Our patent
laws are all wrong. 1 believe that the Gov
ernment should buy valuable ideas and then
pension the man who develops them for life.
[ believe man who does some good Tor the |
race is more entitled to a pension than |
man who kills another. Then the invention |
would become the property of the people"
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.