The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-30

alive table OF wealth, so L am forced to-
use the figures given 10y IL" and he
may choose between $3S per capita
anu $50 per capita for 1880. ." - says;
"If 1000 men produce cloth worth
5000 I'm one days time, and II one
more man should he added, who, toy
dividing aud controlling others labor,
should Increase the product TO S6OOU,
We should say that this Que man, the
thousand and-first man, should be
credited with this additional $1,000"
So far so good, but let us examine this
proposition in the light of we'll known
facts. Let the "thousand-and-t first
man have his $1,000 "a long as he does
not endauger the welfare OF the other
thouzan II they get the same pay
for the same work they are neither
injured nor benefited, but one of two
things will surely happen. Our leap
tain of Industry must sell $1,000 worth
OF cloth per day or h will cut down
the time OF the thousand. He can run
OH one third time and make as much
cloth as was made before, but We will
say that he runs on half-time, and we
will assume that under the old system
the men received S1.50 per day. On
half time they would receive one-halt
"a much in year as they received
before. Mines and mills are shut
down or run on half time whenever
the managers can make as much by
limiting the output as by running.
Self-preservation is the first law OF
nature, and he who ceases to struggle
will soon cease to exist, SO that 1t Is
necessary for the laborers to band to-
gether and compel the captains OF
industry" to give them their rightful
share of the fruits OF labor. Improved
machinery, under our present eco
nomic system, renders 1T possible to
grind the laborer to powder If he VIII
submit. If any individual in COM
munity becomes so rich that it Is pos
sible for him to- endanger the welfare
of his neighbors they are fully Justl-
! fed in using any means necessary 10
/ protect themselves.
Now, as to increase in value, If we
| examine the Uuited States statistics
we will find that they show a steady
! increase in value, but the fact Is that
! there is a continual decrease. Inc
| earth is literally our storehouSe, ana
| the real value OF land IS based upon It's
! power 10 produce the necessarles oil
! life. The people of the u. >. A. have
/ skinned the soil OF their vast and once
! fertile territory, and we know that IL
| is impossible for people to become
! wealthy while they are impoverish-
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hers. Land broken up with spade
and reaped with a hand sickle Will
produce as much food as land worked
by the most improved machinery, anu
food is the prime necessity:
The people of the United States
have listened to the siren-like song;
of Fourth of July orators, political
stump. speakers and Thanksgiving
Day preachers until they are intoxl.
Gated by the contemplation of what
they mistakenly call progress. The
truth has been somewhat ooscured pS
the fact that in days past large body
of unoccupied fertile land mas
stretched beyond them. They are
now waking from their pleasan
dreams to the disagreeable knowiedg'
that something is the matter will
them, and their gratitude will be du.
not to the class spoken of by Oh. ,
and w. HI. Mollock, but to those wh'
can show them how to escape iron
the terrible poverty which IS nov
staring them in the face. A. j. A.