The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-17
NEW PHILOSOPHY.
Edward Everett Hale PrOpOunds M
Unheard of Doctrine.

To the Editor:
Read ''Rsad," Read" Wonderful, -
Wonderful" Wonderful" 1.-THE Great
Labor Problem solved" mo more strikes -
mo MORE POVERTY" EVERYBODY
CAN GET A LIVING" "Donnelly Done
Up" owen Knocked Out" "Debs Down.
ed" John Swinton Squashed" Henry
George Has the Ground Taken From Tn
der His Feet" Thomas G. Sherman
Shorn of His Laurels. Bethany Set Back
wards IAN ASTONISHING Discovery"
1t throws thousands of calamity howlers
out of work, but makes everybody else hap
ply. Beacon street Boston, near the Com
mon. its birth place. THE Rev. Edward
Everett Hale It's Father
Let no one hint after this that in the orig
inal manuscript the threadbare quotation,
What fools these mortals be- was writ
ten What fools these philosophers be-
Edward Everett Hale, a man with the
longest name and the shortest creed. Christ
was as big a man as Edward Everett Hale
as any philosopher living or dead-has,
with stroke of his pen. solved the whole
Pandora box of social evils. Here it is in
a nut shell. Sew on all your buttons be-
fore you read farther. Are you ready?
Here goes: THE square and simple truth
is that there is no law, human or divine,
which announces that men shall be en-
ployed all the time.
Like all great truths the greatest wonder
about it is it's simplicity and the ease in
which 1t can be demonstrated. The Rev.
Edward knocks all opposition to his grand
theory into a cooked hat by giving the
magical number, three illustrations from
how it is done down East 1.-The New Eng
land farmer works hard from April to
Thanksgiving. From Thanksgiving to April
he has hard work to kill time" THE fish
ing industry in those days was confined to
the months between April and December"
Passing to speak of manufacturing, it has
been the law from the beginning that peo-
pie worked when they had anything to do.
When they did not, they did not work"
This nugget of wisdom places Capt Jack
Bunsby in the shade Our Everett says:
AT such times they read Huxley, Brown
ing, Shakespeare, and mOdesty forbid him
saying, and Edward Everett Hale.
The sum and substance of this great phi
losophy is: THE great object in life is to
earn a living, not to make money" Think
of that, all We wage earnerS, We Sewing
women who make shirts for y cents per
dozen, ye wood choppers who cut cord
wood for 60 cents psr cord, all ye coal min
ers, iron workers, etc, you ought to be
satisfied with making a living and drinking
down the sparkling New England Hale,
and not crave to make money.
OF course it could not be expected that
such a mighty intellect Rev. E. E. Hale s
could stoop to give details, as might be eX-
pected, to be safely delivered of such a
vast idea must have left Mrs. Hale very
much Frustrated, but hope she is as
WEI could be expected under the circum-
stances.
1t is these facts, and knowing how anX-
ious the public will be to hear the details
of this grand scheme for the cure of '.all
ills that human flesh is hsir to-" that 1
undertake to write out the prescription in
full.
To begin with we must go back to the
days of James Buchanan and a 13-per cent
tariff 'befo' de wah." and before the coun-
try had been saved by the grand old Re
publican party; in fact, before that party
had been put in short clothes, or had a
tooth in its head, let alone being able to
chew up the substance of 100000 people
We draw our illustration from the same
source Mr.. Hale. 1t is a New England
seaport town of some 10000 people. The
shipping is for the most part of the grace
full fore-and-aft schooners, most of which
are employed in the cod fisheries of Lab
rador and the mackere fisheries of the
Gulf of st. Lawrence. Above the shipping.
extending up the river for some three
miles We're the shipyards, which. at the
time l am writing of, were in full blast
from end to the other 1t at this
time and from these yards that some of
those famous clipper ships sailed away to
astonish. bewider and beat the record of
W
in the days when the Red Jacket, the
Lightning and the Dreadnaugnts reduced
the time of sailing vessels between Liver
pool and Australia from 112 to 50 days
beating the record of English steamships
81 days. In the town | have in mind, and
it is a similar town and of the same time
that our Edward writes were cotton mills
carriage factories, hat, gun, paper collar
and other factories too numerous to men
ton flourshed like green bay tree. The
fishermen for the most part fished on
shares, and when they got home in the
fall if SO disposed they could take their
share of the "catch' and peddle them
around in wheel barrow to the people
who eat them ship them to the great
manufacturing cities of Lawrence, Lowell,
Manchester, etc, and sell them there to the
people who eat them Or they could ship
their fish to the West Indies, going with
them as seamen. and get from $50 to $50 a
month, getting back in time in the spring,
to go fishing again. Or, as our Everett
says, they could make shoes in the winter
months, and as this sparkling Hale" did
not say, sell them to the people who wore
them.
But we must haul up or this letter will
become Webster's Unabridged. The fact
of the matter is that when read that
id old dotards letter we were so indig-
nant that we We're boiling over with wrath
to think that the typesetters did not strike
before they would set such rot. The whole
matter in nutshell is this: Those shrewd
New England Yankees had read in the
Scriptures where the man who Travelled
between Jerusalem and Jericho fell among
thieves. so they built the two cities to-
gether. The producer and consumer were
within stones throw of one another.
If that Hale old hypnotic fossil will rub
his eyes, scratch his head and get some
one to shake him, he will wake up to find
that he was writing of days that are
hat
commercial highways are infested, in every
direction, by as merciess gang of thieves
ever the Lord let crawl, like human lice
on the face of the earth