The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-09

profits. and nearly all net profits. because
as yet wages have had no inducement to
rise. Now notice what will happen when
builders ind they can build and gain 30
per cent. profit, and when every other line
OF production and trade is exactly In a
similar condition. 1t will not be possible
Tor HoouS or cheap capital to flow cut of the
great reservoir OF land monopoly, for that
fountain Is drying up and being absorbed
by Other things. Rates of capital will now
a0Eahce TO higher levels uniformity in
rates VIII change TO variety, and the de-
mand Tor labor will again place experiences
anu learning above brute strength. Wages
Will 80 TO monopoly prices before these
prontS can all be realized on account OF the
width and depth of demand. Every other
man and woman will try to get the ex-
cepuOndl prOft, and will be seeking some
one TO do some work for them. AS wages
advance new avenues for labor will open
up, continually adding strength to demand.
We now have a market for products
created by what labor spends of about
four-hfths the wages OF labor. The total
wages are about 5000, 100000 and the pro-
dqce market we may call 5000 CO0,O0O.
When the competing laborerS who now di-
vide the wage fund shall secure a fund OF
their own from this free value coming from
property IN land, and all laborers receive
monopoly wages for themselves, the mar
ket will grow beyond our present power
to supply it, This new market viii change
production of the common necessaries OF
life is, perhaps, now reached for our pres
ent population 1t is not likely that the
market for farm products would take much
more than is now produced, although prices
would be higher; but if we needed more
common things the stimulus of greater
values and profits would cause a greater
production on an area of land smaller than
that now in use. 1t will be in other
now share and which are now
Inquiries to them, that great changes may
be expected 10 occur. Demands of all kinds
above the common and cheap will appear II
floods because of the millions and tens OF
millions that may demand them. This flow
of demand will allow labor to return to it's
natural development. 1t viii commence to
climb from the lower animal walks to the
higher spiritual realms; from cheapness
We will go to eXceilency; from tawdriness to
art, and from envy to emulation. This is
not an idle dream but is the intent of ma
ture, which she proclatms everywhere at
all times and Furnishes us because we Will
not see. We often blame God for the seem~
ing injustice of social arrangements. but We
90 SO IN our despair and with brawltng
ignorance. Suppose for a moment the
Great Unknown was a modern politician,
bent on pleasing everyone without regard
to future consequences. and had no great
plan 20 unfold, no purpose to achieve. The
CONDITIONS that would or could result from
this supposition are worse than any read
condluon We can produce. Injustice and
wee might be compromised. pain could be
abohshed, and an era of brutal indulgence
ana savage plenty could prevail, but the
entire plan that has taken millions of years
70 perfect would have been abandoned and
lost Selfish rulers and spendthrifts migh1
be allowed to wallow in their selhshness
and the mass might he allowed to come ~
the trough and fill to repletion from the
society would perish never to rise again.
oelnshness ana vice might overcome the
word IN animal indulgence if virtue and
Godllhess were not necessary to the plan.
me savage animal appetite is intended to
act as fuel to feed the flame that shall d.
velop and purify the spirit
Society develops in order to furnish an
environment where seltishness shall give
way to unselfshness through happiness.
There is higher. delight and a more perfect
happiness waiting for us with every risa
from the mere animal to the higher spirits
uaL We must know the law if we would
escape its punishment. for it is law tbat
uIects us, and knowing the law is knowine,
the way we are expected to GO We will he
Permltted TO go the right road with the
snG9atest happiness TO ourselves and it is
only Wnen we get lost on our way that we
suner from poverty, vice and crime The
uecree or natural law is that the plan must
NOT Iall Men may perish and starve So
cietX and civilization may die and other
cteVlIizatlons grow. but the plan and purnosa
Oh all progress will at last prevail
Anderson, Ind Aug. T. L.