Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-09-17

pendenCe OF all classes IN our CIV
ilization and depreciates the at
tempts of demagogues to STIR up
independence is word much !
glorihed in the United States, but
independence does not exist. We
are dependent on each other, and
as civilization increases, depend
ence increases. The Indian family
Is complete i'll itself; it comprises
warrior, farmer, manufacturer,
tailor, boat-builder, architect; its
various members hgh. the battles,
cultivate the garden, grind the
corn, make the garments, build the
canoe. construct the wigwam. AS
we grow in civilization this indie
pendence disappears; each man,
and later each community. renders
one service and exchanges the
product OF its Labor with some 9TH
er community. Waltham and
Elgin make watches, Lowell and
Lawrence make cotton cloth, Lynn
makes shoes, Grand Rapids
makes furniture. No civilized
community Uses more than small
fragment of what it produces, and
no civilized community could live
en- the products of its own labor.
At break fast we drink coffee from
Java and tea from Japan; we eat
meat from Chicago, and bread
baked in New York of -four manu-
featured in Minneapolis from whea
grown i'll Winnipeg. The western
farmer cannot eat the corn he Cul-
tivates, nor keep warm withou,
clothing manufactured in the Fast
and the eastern manufacturer can
mot wear the clothes he manufac-
lures, nor live without the bread
stuffs brought to him from the
West.
Thus grows upan interchange OF
industries. We serve one another
whether we will or no. Our nee
essites coerce us into brotherhood.
1t is literally, materially, CONNER
cially true that no man liveth to
himself.
This inter-dependence finds its
instruments, this commercial com.
radeship, its expression, i'll the
merchant. We use this word mer-
chant, in lieu, of a better term, to
designate the man, to whatever
branch of trade he belongs, whose
business in life it is to facilitate this
Exchange Of the products of indus
try, to transfer wealth from points
where it is in excess and would be
wasted to points where it is needed
for the maintenance and promotion
of life. We include in this general
term the railroad worker, who is
carrying food from the prairies
to the manufacturing towns, the
Wholesale dealer, who is purchas
ling in one overloaded market anG
distributing in another which. bu'
for him would be famine. stricken
the much abused "middle-man.'
who carries the supply to the indi
vidual home, the banker who sup
plies the currency and creates the
credit system by which these com
plicated transactions are carried on
| If Jacob had lived in our time, hs
would not have sent his sons up t.
Egypt to buy corn. He woult
have drawn draft on Memphis
and brought his corn at the rlilroat
station in Hebron. Where distri
button is easy, famine is impossible
When thousands have died Of hun
ger in China and India, it has no
been because there was no bread il
China and India, but because Their,
were no railroads to transfer breat
from the provinces where it was i,
abundance to those in which were
thousands dying for lack of food.
| Money in use or i'll motion i.
capital. To employ labor, to bu,
material, necesitates this capital