The morning times., 1896-01-05
Your Uncle Samuel Getting the Old Gun Ready.

he wages offered are not sufficient to IN
ducc him TO work, says To his fellow-men,
in SO many words or by his Conduct: II
do not propose to work for a cent less
than You are receiving: / will leave You
Ia work at those wages If you choose, but
as for me / shall travel op." AT that
point, because of his kindness In refrain
ing from entering into competition with
his fellows, the redu ctinn in wages ceases.
or course the resident nun-worker, who
couragcuusly faces the disgrace and dis
Comforts of paupcrism rather than take
The bread from his neighbor's mouth by
undertaking him aud So obtaining his
place serves the same beueficent pur-
pose the peripatctic tramp i'll keeping
wages slightly above the starvation limit.
THE BLESSINGS OF INTEMP FRANCE.
have often read and listened to statis-
tics tending to show how much the labor
now wasted in the manufacture Of wine,
beer, whisky, brandy. ETC.. in raising
grapes and hops. aud making whisky bar
rels, and beer barrels, and wine hotties,
and demijohns would accomplish If ex-
pended in the Manufacture OF useful arti-
cles; to which we are asked To add the
labor OF several hundred thousand drunk
ards. now incapacitaied for effective labor
by their Incorporate habits. But all this is
based upon the hypothesis OF a civilized and
sensible industrial system, in which there
would be work enough for all. Eut, with
everything else left as 1t now is, without
sufficient employment for those who now
are diiigent and sober, what would be
the effect upon wages il the million or more
of persons who are now dealing in or are de.
bauched by the various forms Of the "bever-
age OF hell' should sally forth among the
different industrial establishments, offer
ing to work at any price!
CRIMINALS AS WAGE RAISERS.
Consider, moreover, tue beneficcnt results
that accrue TO the laboring class from the
conduct of the man Yhoson surveying the
industrial field, says to- himself: "These
poor fellows are working for as little pay
as human beings can and live; 1 will not
demand the pla &c faUy one of tfem;no offer
of mine to WORK for less than he is getting
shall bring about his dismissal or reduce his
wages; lie can keep OH working, and dgetallhe
can for his work, without my entering into
competition with hiin."l Thereupon, since
hcmu st have food and clothing in some way,
he steals a coat, or shoulder of mutton.
Then he is lodged In jail; possibly, II the
larceny be large enougls ia the penitentiary.
Then think of the numbers who are FUR
nshed employment, y In building and caring
for the falls and penitentiaries needed
for the Incarceration OF these ephilanthropists
for what else than phiianthropist is a
man who, on the one hand, refrains from
entering into competition with his fellows
and reducing their wages, and on the other
hand furnishes them employment?
A delcciable industrial system is this of
hours, as 1t stands, in which the wages Of
honest, Woodworking men are fixed at the
limit at which tramps, ,paupers and criminals
recalcitrate against the employing class
declaring, in effect: I'VE Will go hungry
and naked, we will beg or steal, sooner
tban work for wages any lower than our
fellow workmen are getting nowt'
LABoRERs AT A DISADVANTAGE.
Looking at the matter from a purely
financial standpoint, however, the pauper
and the thief have the advantage. The
different States and counties expend from
26 to 20 cents day for the support Of
paupers, aside from housing them. Cook
county, ILL.,, pays 2b cents q day for food
Gione for the prisoners In tts county Jail.
Clayton county, Iowa. pays 20 cents q
day for the same purpose. How II It with
the honest laboring man
The wages OF laboring men In the United