The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-04

Fo1acs4on has Increased twenty fold.
F-Aca worker Gzses sso tons 81 s<sel
1ssls n day ~ about ore fifth the cost
q tEe-.ty vears ago
A@hs he more familiar ps-r-evsr Tire
pointing os & Is act TO significant Scr
- eEaEaeaI genus Adam Smith regarded
re making O. 4. aa pr day ey iszn Iea as
IsaI1ns noS ! i..ss are made pr
~oFs&- Par 6ay--shA rszr Starts the rls-
ez'IaeTy II S-sS tie rest Then there =
t.as pms ccs1sta, yrs needle. Sixteen naA-
~asaosS Ar 9@<s3 20 make sewing machine
--sSIas, I0t tney produce Sss.essi Pr we-S-
IS s~wing machine Itself q ths product
hsArly 80 separate machine tooas-
-ssa.A- IN thu making 90 the l0cx Of 4 gan
taF9~ ara ID dlf-erens machine operations,
ana n TIA making q the balance wheel %
= Nasca weighing only seven grains inSFs
STE S@shts separate machines. One O. The
machines makes sacn cav leo wheels.
a1sii1s 800 teeth. another J. 21 screws.
70 ice fFat fs5sssa weigh only a pound. In
az 'he screV 8 made n much less time
'3ah q man would pick UP the material 10
maze = In zach case a man. Roy ~ girl
Is cary needed 10 act the part q a police
uasa 70 the machinery.
at even has been yrirn.ckea. the print
g machinery has helped 10 improve pla-
s2AFos. and woc<icarying machines are now
iasssss GtiEzsst- A model is necessary az
isfsfr pat after that prassatab1e media lions.
saS u Shakespeare. can be made n oak
III Al hoar and a half. where by hand
even rfercenary artist would take sixty
ioars- TO satisfy artistic taste. how
eNeF, TIE mae airle work Is usually supple
.is~atea oy eight or nine hours resoucaing.
tas ".thA4 there IS gain. and thus In eur
saaps and the like. one finds in unexpeset-
cal Places clust--s OF grapes or flowerS or
issAre studies which please the eve ard are
Se1 inexpensive. This also suggests the
great progress made IN a wood working
plant. 4 Twenty foo: plank may be beaas;-
Iasiy planed IN one and one-half minutes.
While In the long ago men would slave for
eight hours and yet not work 30 accQr-
afsiy 10 gauge
Ot course ell this means that fewer men
are needed. With modern machinery a man
NAY co IN thre-> hours the wo.a which
occupied his forefathers ten g. twelve
hours. and that, too without the same
paFscai sxerfion- Competition has neces-
STATED the tools bur the capital Invested
IN them has failed 10 reap the same re-
ward. Three per cent. IS oftensr the rate
returned than the : or IS per cent OF the
Aofas ago. On the other hand wages have
gone up. They are quite - per cent. high
er than sixty years ago. bat this does rot
represent the workers full gain. The pur-
CHASING power has enormously increased
by reason or the cheap transportation. and
OF tAe less cost OF manufacture. OF wheat
bread man may purchase for the same
money three times AS much As sixty years
ago; OF Hour % per cent more; Of tea
ana sugar three times, and so on This IS
hct surprising when we recall the great
macnire-essuipped wheat-growing plains OF
America, and that the transport thence 10
Liverpool or any English port is oaly 6
pence to pence per bushel. 1t would cost
as much to cart it from a farm in the. en-
Fifons OF London 10 the metropolitan mar
ket- Again. in baking hand labor is min
imlzed. a mechanical bakery may be set
up Tor about 1850, for knaading dough
roihng II, stamping out biscuits. carrying
them In an endless conveyor through A
5-!oot oven at a speed variable according
To the time required for baking. and then
boys or girls only are needed 20 pack them
A days work. provided By little more than
$50 pounds OF coal, gives p. tons OF tea
biscuits. or ], eSo,oS OF those geological bis
cults which delight the hearts of the chill
dren.
such conparison1 might be multiplied In
definitely: their cause has been the adj
vance in mechanics: their effect the ma
terial and moral advance of all Iuxurie-s
OF sixty years ago are deemed necessar!es
OF life now. and they are easily attained.
for the engineer has not only enabled man
10 multiply the product OF his labor four
fold, bat he has increased the demand by
experimenting the surplus cash of every
body and bringing the remotest parts OF
the earth within reach Of the factory
workers arm Sixty years ago each ham
let was Isolated: now there, Is an inter-
national exchange of commerce of far
reaching effect; It promotes the arnity of
nations: and II with this comfy there
comes competition ii need only inyigorats
Our inventive ingenuity.
c.. r. FLEMING