Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-04
Man w. the Machine.

Twentieth century.
Invention has filled the world with
competitors not only of labOrers but Of
mechanics mechanics Of the highest
skill. To-day the ordinary laborer is,
for the most part, cog in the wheel.
works with the tireless-he feeds the
Unsuitable. When the monster stops,
the man is out of emplOyment-Out of
bread. He has not saved anything.
The machine that he fed was not feed
ing him-the invention was not for his
benefit.
The other day l heard man say
that it was almost impossible for thou
sands of good mechanics to get en-
plOyment, and that in his judgement
the government ought to furnish work
for the people. A few minutes after L
heard another say that he was selling
a patent for cutting out clothes; that
one Of the machines could do the work
of twenty tailOrs, and that only the
week before he had sold two to a great
house in New York, and that over
forty cutters had been discharged.
On every side men are being dis
charged and machines are being in
vented to take their places. When the
great factory shut down, the workers
who inhabited it and gave 1t life, as
thoughts do the brain, go away, and it
stands there like an empty skull. A
few workmen by the force of habit
gather about the closed doors and
broken windows and talk about dis
tress, the price of food and the coming
winter. They are convinced that they
have not had their share of what their
labor created. The feel feel certain
that the machines inside were not their
friends. They look at the mansion Of
the employer, and think of the place
whore they live. They have saved
nothing nothing but themselves. The
employer seems to have enough. Even
when employers fail, when they be-
come bankrupt, they are far better off
than the laborers ever were. Their
worst is better than the tailor's best.
how A GOOD HEART FEELS.
It is impossible for a man with good
heart to be satisfied with this world
as it now IS. No man can truly enjoy
even what he earps-What he knows
to be his own-knoWing that millions
of his fell0w-men are In misery and
want. When we think of the fam
ished we feel that it is almost heart
less to eat. To meet the ragged and
shiVering makes one almost ashamed
to be Well-dressed and warm-One
feels as though his heart was as cold
as their bodies
In a world filled with millions and
of acres of land waiting to be
titled, where one man can raise the
food for hundreds, millions are on the
edge Of famine. Who can comprehend
the stupidity at the bottom of this
truth.
MUST IT ALWAYS BE S0p
Is there to be no change?
Are the claws of supply and de-
mand,' invention and science, mono
poly and competition, capital ard leg
always to be the enemies of
those who toll? Will the workers al
ways be ignorant enough and stupid
enough to give their earnings for the
uselessp Will they support millions of
soldiers to kill the sons of their work.
ingmen2 Wll they always build tenn
Piles and live in huts and dens them
selves? whitley forever allow par
asites and vampires to live upon their
blood? viii they remain tine slaves of
of the beggers they support? Will
honest men stop taking of their hats to
successful fraud2 Will industry, in
the presence of crowned idleness, for
ever fall upon its knees, and will the
lips unstained by lies forever kiss the
rObed impOster's hand? Will they UNI
derstand that beggers cannot be gen
erOus, and that every healthy man
must earn the right to live? Will they
finally say that the man who has had
equal privileges with all Others has no
right to complain, or will they follow
The example that has been set by their
oppressorj? VIII they learn that
force, to succeed, must have thought
behind it, and that anything done in
order that it may endure, must rest
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