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Somebody under the pscuduaym OF
"Krumroy,'' has sent To the .'CoIning
Nation,' OF Tennessee City, Tenn, our
column article on The cause OF financial
crises, taken bodily -frem Tire ffiiics Of
October 20, S95, claiming 1t as original
with himself While tIyis sisoyrs good iudS-
mcnt, il is hardly in ACCORDANCE with the
SENSE or justice mat Ought 20 characterize
a reformer which '.Krnnlrcy" claims to he.
CONCERNING FRUIT AND NIGuTGowNs
The Washington Post. in an article ON
political economy, suggests:
''If rich people spent no more than was
actually nccessary to feed and clpthc them
| selves in simple comfort, the army OF the
| dependent and destitute would soon attain
| hopelessly inmanagcable proportions. The
| money spent, or squandercd, in unseasonab bic
| fruit AMI fancy nightgowns fuifilis at least
one meritorious function. 1t goes to the
| industrious people who grow the fruit and
make the nightgowns.'
| The article goes on TO remind the laboring
| classes of the debt uf gratitude they owe
| 10 capitalists who furnish them employ
| mcnt''
Those who have thoughtrully perused
these columns hitherto are by this time
preceding cxtract. tuat ft
A WHOLESALE TRAAIP. FACTORY.
a fortnight ago | narrated a chapter
from my own experience Us a pioBcr- in
the Northwest, in slavery TO a land specu-
iator. Every few days during my ten
years OF honda &c some one wOud apply to
me for work. But was compelled TO an
swer them all, In substance: Il need you
badly enough: am drudging here six
teen hours day. from o O'Clock in the
morning until O'Clock at night; would
much prefer To work eight hours Il day and
have you work fer me the other eight;
but can not pay this land speculator 5000
gear and at the same time pay you for
working for me; so shall have TO keep
on doing two days work every day,
while you keep on tramping till you fetch
up in the pOorhousc, or the Jail, as the
case may be-"
AS before remarked, there were thou
sands of us in that one community uEder
mortgage To that same land spcculator;
and every mortgage meant a tramp.
Moreover. with the 100000 that we
IN the aggregate paid him annually for
the privilege Of letting ms live in his country,
we might have bought considerable fruit.
Our wives might have worn fancy night
gowns instead of making over wornout
flour sacks into some crude sort or moe
turnal apparel. In short, by spending our |
own money, instead of handing ii over TO
bin To spcnd, we could have done vastly |
more than lie did toward preventing the |
army OF The dependent and destitute from |
attaining unrnanaseable proportions"
THE UNFORTUNATE ISLAND.
Possibly the situation might be made |
little clearer to the ordinary comprehension |
by nara ting little parable.
There WAS an island, OF fertile soil in |
h1bitcd by an industrious people. ingenious
in the invention and construction Of labor
saving machinery. What with the pro-
fuctiyeness OF the soil, the diligence of |
the inhabitants. and the effectiveness OF
the machinery, they werc1able 10 rsfise all
the food and make all the clothing and
lthcr neccsSaries OF life by working five !
hours 4 day. -.s u.. 80.
To this island there came, from across
ne broad ocean, a couple OF strangers
lhcy brought with them Information or the
higher civilization and the improved in
iustrial system OF the country from which
hey caine, The United States OF America.
They finally induced the inhabitants of the
stand to allow them 10 import thiiher and
Iut into practice the economic customs OF
hat rar-off country.
one OF the newcomers was given the |
'roprietorship OF all the land OF The island.
law was passed that any person who de-
ired to ill portion OF the sol. or pse.it
or any purpose must come and pa y tribute |
o him for the privilege. "7''fHT' "''07
The other newcomer given posses
lon or all the machinery OF the island
'ersons wishing To work must apply TO
lin, and he would furnish them employ
lie chose.
The landowner at once hired considera-
DE number OF persons 10 cultivate his land.
he machinery owner hired about an equal }
lumber OF persons TO work with his
machines. Very naturally, eac oh con-
idered primarily his own profit. ather than
he welfare OF his workmen or the needs
II the community. Hence they demanded
hat their employees, upon the farm or in
be factory, should work ten hours a day.
instead of five hours a day, as had pre-
iously been their custom. ,..,..
CONFRONTING ABI-N-
DANCE. T--r1-- ftai4 -. |
1Dasmuch as the inhabitants of tho island