The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-11-18

GOING 60 SHOW tre Share Labor Receives
Prom Production
There is nothing in statistical facts
which should so arouse labor as knowl-
edge OF the rapidity with which It's
share Of production has decreased
under the rule Of the two old parties.
The average share Of labor from $50
20 1850 was over 81 per cent. From
1850 TO 1850 IGbor's share had been
reduced to 48 per cent, and from 1860
10 1870 to 81 per cent. From 1870 TO
1880 to p per cent. From 1880 to
1890 to II per cent. showing a loss OF
IS per cent 10 labor IN nifty years.
These are startling Egurez for POliti-
clans TO explain away in rural dis
tricts Is it amy wonder that they
wish to ignUre the financial question
and cOnfins themselves 20 tariff. Tie
ratio Ga rate per cent going 20 invested
capital looks this way: From 1910 %
1850 capital received 81, per cent Of
production. From 1850 to 1860 SO per
cent. From 1850 20 1870 B7 per cent.
From 1870 TO 1850 20 per. cent, and
from 1880 to 1880 81 per cont. These
are statistical figures. and, iu view of
tine enormous change in the rate per
cent going to labor, IS it any wUnder
that we meet unrest among labOrers
everywhereY The unrest is a uecss-
saTy result OF the cEauged conditions.
There has been a steady tendency for
the past GTty years to dwarf labor S
returns.
Tie questions Of methods and the
remedy is OF the utmost vital import
aucs To labor. 1t is a fact that tariff
has been both high and low during this
fifty years of tune while lsbOr's share
OF production mas steadily tended
downward. Something besides tuTih
sLerts q controlling influence. Is IL
money volume COBtrOlY The money
controls iaGor's market as shown la
the known fact, stringent money times
always I'LL our roads with tramPs.
Trampa are the result OF a FOrCed colt
diLiUu usually resulting from the aeLa
of mOueyed corporations, sometimes
through laws enacted by men iB thsiI
employ, few not IA such employ can
succeed 70 seats ia legislatures or cou-
grsss.
The purpose Of the peoples party is
20 change all Of this. IL is the PEG
pies work. Are they sufficiently
aroused to their own interests TO take
tile stand now instead of continuing
that system u8der which they have
been robbed for the past City years.
With a third party in the field for this
/ express purpose these questions appeal
! with a peculiar force. It is a contin-
uance of tile present. If labor is sat
| ished dis0Tguuizs all societies formed
TO better their conditions. If they are
/ not satisfied then move TO change one
as the other is u necessity HasiabOT
as yet, got at the real cause Of 1t,
trouble. If wealth is being absorbed
unUaturally it Is under the eye of the
/ law. Corporations often End money
at g and per tent, farmers rarely
/ Why, il not that farmers are REGARDED
as OverbuFdsnedP There is no danger
of farmers becoming prOhigate aHC
/ guardianship against it is unnecessary
/ They certainly VIII never grow profit
gate 50 long as they are allowed bu
II per cent OF production. The farm
ers are forced TO economy. PrUdigaey
appears in marble business houses Hnl
palatiai homes of bankers, with thsiI
regal surroundings, and il industry
receives 10 per cent at the end Of the
next decade it will be "a surprise e
me, unless an sirOusiHg comes sOOu.-
| @. Il. HiLLiuDss, i1l National Pistg.
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