Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-31

1t requires, in these hard times, an
immense amount of patience to wait
Tor the realization of hopes deferred,
but Mr.. /. NJ. A. Frederic, in the Amer
lean Magazine of Civics, points out
the way relief is to come to those who
wait and cling to their hopes of bet
ter day. He begins his article by quot
ing from Commissioner Wright's re-
port on
INDUSTRIAL DEPREssIONS,
and says, I'm the early days of pctro-
leum every barrel of the liquid had to
be hauled from the wells to the rail-
road, sometimes distance of 10 or Is
miles All this work is now done by
the National Transit company, con-
trolled by the Standard Oil company
When well is completed, the pipe
lines agent connects the well in few
minutes with the main lines tanks
The producer or the owner of the we'll
pays nothing for having his oil trans
ported through the pipe lines, but
pays 80 cents per day storage on every
thousand barrels he has in the tanks
OF the company, and the consumer or
refiner pays 20 cents per barrel upon
the receipt of the oil for transporta-
ton, so far as Pittsburg and vicinity
are concerned, while the receiver for
New York and distant places pays
something more. Some of the produc-
ing territory is quite remote and 10
barrels per day would be a very liberal
average to allow for team of horses
to transport to the railroads. On this
basis the pipe lines displace 5,7OO team
OF horses, and double that number of
men, in handling the oil, the produc-
tion of the country being placed at ST.
600 barrels per day"
THE METHODS OF HAND CULTURE ON THE
have largely given place to labor saw
ing machinery, and the demand for
farm labor has accordingly diminished.
The gang plow, the horse drill, plan
ter, stone gatherer, manure spreader,
potato digger, corn harvester, the corn
husking machine, the self binder, the
combined header and and separator,
the mower, and almost inumera BILE
other farm implements of late have in
creased and cheapened production at
the expense of the demand for farm
labor. Milking machines have been
used with the some success, and it is
predicted by some that ere long the
large dniries, which can afford to pur-
chase machines, will be supplied with
a contrivauce which will extract the
milk from whole dairy in from 5 to
10 minutes
IHE ELECTRIC MOTOR
has already cut all profit out of com
mon horse flesh. Horses, such as 10
years ago sold readily for from $50 to
S75 each are now bought from 81. so to
81 each, to be ground up for fertilizer
In coal mining the machine is driving
the hand worker to desperate straits,
and displacing many by reason of its
capacity to produce beyond the de-
mands of the trade.
HOW TO CARE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
is a problem which the thinking peo-
pie of our land are compelled to face,
reluctantly or otherwise but face
it they must. 1t is not reasonable to
suppose that these enforced idlers will
quietly starve to death; and the aims
givers will soon tire of the fad" of
find those who are not able to care for
themselves. The alternative is that
the state must make provision for them
and this requirement will force the
government to adopt one of two poll.
cies: The state may treat these unfor-
tunates as paupers, and so make them
an onerous charge on the actual wealth
producers; or it may employ them at
some productive industry. where, with
their honor unscathed, they bear their
own burdens.
PoUPLAR SENTIMENT
and popular reason would not long
consent that they should be employed
simply for the sake of ''giving then,
something to do" They must becoms
self-supporting, and to become so they
must be employed at some wealth pro-
ducing industry. Such an arrangement,
however, would involve a new factor
in the field of industry.
NO PRIVATE CORPORATIONS
could compete with the government.
The capitalist would be compelled to
retire. His former employees would
demand that the state give them en-
ployment, and their behest could not
be ignored. Transformation would
follow transformation in rapid success
ion, until all important industry would
be in the hands of the government, and
all persons OF reasonable age employed
by it. A short work day would follow
naturally.
MACHINERY Is TO BE TIE LAST SLAVE.
1t will succeed the wage slave, just a.
wage slave has taken the place of the
chattel slave. By its centralizinR ten.
dency it is Fastening mopopoly to its
doom Hsrdshlp and great suffering