The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-08
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
Industrial Slavery the Result Of
Capitalism.

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THE INDUSTRIAL MIRACLES OF MODERN
TIMES THE LEvELLING PRoCEss-THE
HISTORIC MISSION OF CAPITALISM.
We herewith present two views of the
gold and Mheat question, as stated by repre-
sentalives of Capitalism and Populism.
The Chicago News-R Record says:
"Now gold is coming back from Europe.
This is due to the fact that prices of Ameri-
can products have gone so low that wheat
can be marketed in Europe in competition
with the wheat of Russia and India. This
foreshadows a release of much OF the hoard
ed gold and gold securities"
To this beautiful exposition of our splen-
did financial system, the Minden, Nebraska
Courier replies thus:
Here is the financial policy in a few lines.
II the American producers can be brought
down TO level with the Savs of Russia
and the Ryos of India, system of indus
trial slavery will envelope the civilized
world. The first step towards this ultima
tum is the adoption of the single gold stan
dard. The rest is simple and easy. A few
persons can control the gold supply of the
world, and when that becomes the only
money basis, who controls that, controls
labor and all the products of labor"
There is considerable truth in both of
these views, and yet, strange to say, our far
western Populist friend does not take
advantage of the fine occasion presented
and there is not the least hint of any remedy
for the deplorable condition in which the
American farmer finds himself after thirty
years Of uninterrupted protection to Amer.
lean industry. Our Populist friends do not
seem TO realize the fact that under any
monetary system it is possible to invent, the
American producer cannot possibly escape
from being brought down to leyel With
the slavs of Russia and the Ryots of India;
land that, insofar as the capitalist system of
production and distribution has thus far
succeeded, there already exists system of
industrial slavery"
1t is apparent to every observer that
industrial slavery of the many is the nat
ural and necessary accompaniment and
concomitant of the wage and exploitation
system whereby the few reap the main value
of the products of all who toll. The level.
ling process is being strictly attended to,
and that is the historic mission of capitalism.
The age of miracles has not ceased. As
compared 10 the works of modern capitalism,
the magisters and magicians past ages were
the merest bunderers and botches. The
systematized labor power of the industrial
world, supplemented with machine power
quadrupling the labor power of all the
toilers of the globe, is the direct work
of modern capitalism. 1t alone was
able to rear the giant and colossal structure
which we cali modern manufacture and
industrial enterprise. 1t has appropriated
all closes which have heretofore confronted
it, or in any way impeded lis triumphal
march.
Old Rome had It's patrcans warriors,
plebeians, and slaves. The middle ages had
their Feudal lords, robber barons, nobility,
vassals, masters Of the guilds, journeymen
and apprentices. Where the highest civil
izatiou has been reached in modern times
we still see the process of disintegration,
going on, and the final result is already
apparent There are no other words so full
OF meaning as these: Bourgeoise and proles
tartan employer and employe; capitalism
and labor.
Capitalism has demonstrated the utility of
concentrated effort in production, and taught
mankind the valuable lesson that individual
isolation lies in the past, while socialiged
distribution only needs TO be resortod to in
order to relieve our modern industrial
COMPOSITIONS.
All the historic periods of the past have
left behind them some great achievement
which has outlived the breathers of the
time, Egypt's highest achievement was the
pyramids; the tombs of its dynasties and
mansoleum of her national existence the
Coliseum, aqueducts, and spldndid road
ways indicate the highest points touched by
imperial Rome; the gothic cathedrals tell
of that slumbrous dream of humanity during
that dark intellectual night of thousand
years called the middle age; but all are
kindergarten structures TO the modern
international industry reared under the
impetus of ca pitalistic competition.
But Capitalism, the builder, is DESTROY
err, too, and above all, it is destroyer and
developer of glasses. International Com
petition in wheat is sure to RUB opt the
small farmer and hasten the dav when the
international proletarat will unite to
destroy the great system of exploitation
which has produced universal distress.-1He
People,