The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-01-05
FUSION. No. 3

Combines q SucceSS--Competition a
Failure.-The Watchword Of ZACH Class
Must be Combine The Cooperative
System Nearly Completed.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Our manufactures produce eight bill
lion dollars worth, and this is consumed.
We have the facilities to double
the output. The wants of u people
are not one half supplied. They
would consume sixteen billion dollars
worth Of manufactured articles if they
would get the money to exchange for
it. To distribute all that we have the
facilities to produce, the consumers
million dollars for each working day
more than now received. Gladstone,
ex Premier of England, said, in 1886,
world doubled its ability to manufac
ture every even years. At the same
ratio we should produce thirty-two
billion dollars worth in 1903. AS Mr..
Gladstone said, there is no reason
why the civilized world should not
continue this increase until the wants
of all are supplied. It is not a q les-
zion of production. It is a question of
distributing all we have the facilities
to produce. The multiplying, labor
saving machinery and the improve,
ments are rapidly increasing our "a
pacity to produce the n-ecessaries and
Iuxuries of life. During the era of
hand labor, there was no increase per
capita to produce the n~ecessaries and
Injuries Of life. That produced was
readily distributed, as there was no
demand for more dollars. Since the
application of steam to machinery, we
are increasing our capacity per capita
to produce the necessaries and luxu
Eies of life. This calls for a new sys-
Gem of distribution. Our increased
ability to produce the necessaries and
Iuxuries of life is not less than than
Zen per cent per capita annually. Each
year calls for more money per capita
to distribute it. Each individual must
be able this year to command ten per
cent. more dollars than last, or the
increased ten per cent. cannot be dis
tributed. There must be system by
which labor can increase its wages in
the same ratio al we increase our per
capita to produce. The farmer must
be able to command ten per cent. more
dollars, or the surplus Increase cannot
be distributed. Produce sixteen billion
dollars worth of manufactured goods
and the people must be able to com
mand the sixteen billion dollars or it
cannot be distributed. Exchanges
must be made in equity-that is, an
equivalent must be given for an equiv
alent. Labor in every department must
receive a dollar for a dollars worth Of
labor, and not forty or fifty cents.
The farmer must receive one dollar for
q dollars worth of produce, and not
thirty to fifty cents, as they do under
the present system. The same talent
IN private persuit must receive the
same remuneration as in public pur
suit and the system of reward must
be as certain as that in public pursuit
As it is, the same talent in private pur-
suit receives less than one half that
paid the same talent in public pursuit.
When exchanges are made in equity
giving q dollars worth fer a dollar
the farm, mine and factory will run on
full time until the wants of all are sup,
piled. A sufficient amount of money
can be secured by each class combining,
getting control of the volume of money,
cooperating and fixing prices and
wages that will command the dollars.
In this way and in no other can it be
done. We will pay ten dollars to any
one who will show any other way.
As we'll attempt to lift yourself over a
forty foot wall by your boot straps as
60 distribute this increased output I'm,
less you have a system which will en-
able you to command the dollars, and
you cannot get the dollars unless you
can fix prices, and you cannot fix prices
unless you get control of the money,
and you cannot control the money and
fix prices unless you CO operate. The
cooperate plan is Of God. There is but
one system of economics and that is
the n ordained by God in the begin,
ming. Mans substitute will not work.
We have mans economical system
and we cannot distribute one half our
produce. Millions are starving in spite
of Jul abundance. Millions are per,
ishing in sight of the promised land.
In the light of experience the present
system stands condemned of God and
should be execrated by every lover of