The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-10-20
PERTINENT
To the Pending Issue Are the Words Of
A. j. Kintz in a Communica-
tiOn To the Democrat.

log Tor men, NOW hn carpenter Jnab
has always been able to command the
highest wages paid, but am getting old,
and while am willing to work for less
wages for that reason, when 60 to any
of the shops to inquire for work they tell
me that they don't need any more hands.
when l go to any contractor he tells ME
that conditions are such that he must
take his jobs SO low that he is compelled
to employ young men that can do two
days work in one, and he finds plenty Of
them by advertising. have a dozen or
two Of friends that are in the same boat
with myself aud If Mr.. Tayler will to
1t that we can get work at such wages as
we we're able to set all through the
Cleveland administration, bad as 1t was,
we are all ready TO vote for him.
They tell Us. that supply and demand
regulate the wages Of Dor and the prices
of the products of labor. The truth of
this will admit of no dispute. But while
this is true, there Is another thing that
ha q greater bearing on the social prob.
lem which is equally true: That what
ever reduces the consumptlve power Of
the masses red ces the demand for labor
and the demand the products Of labor.
Ard there is still another thing which
is Cqually true: That the demand for
the PRODUCTS of labor has been reduced,
the wages and the prices Of the products
Of labor reduced. Now In n land full Of
Intelligence, industry and favorable
natural opportunities why this reduCtionY
I want to show you that the cause Is
the capiralizing OF money and to make
this clear let Us divide the people of this
country into three classes. The drst
class is the people who depend entirely on
what their labor pays ttem. The second
class Is the people who have more or less
capital invested IN the bountles of nature
or IN the products of labor in view Of
gaining something in addition to what
their labor pays them by way of rents or
profits. This class builds up the country
makes the improve mcnt5, keeps up the
repairs and pays the taxes, and has the
first class to carry when they become
unable to carry themselves, pay their
rents or foot their bills. These two
classes comprise fully ninety percent If
thu people. Then we have third class
who deal strictly iu money for the interest
to ply them. They run no risks and
tlke no chances, while they take every
thing else. They take the morals from
society, the wages from the laborer, the
pl q -
bread from the mouths of starving chill
dren. This class today runs the govern
ment, InBnipulates our financial syst5m,
dictates the volume of currency ana the
kind Of money to be used to suit their
interest
Now when this class once has money
enough Invested to draw mora wealth
from the people than the people can pro-
duoe, then the consunptive power Of TIE
arst two classes begit to go down and
will continue to go down in geometrioal
progression, as interest increases wealth
by our law Of interest.
Few people fully realize how fast
money will gather by our law of interest.
To Illustrate: One dollar at six percent
viii increase to $G4 in one hundred years,
TO 81 073, All S2I in five hundred years,
and to the enormous sum of $2,2S9, 42S,- -
1863, 4b4, 0l3, 052 10 less than Thousand
yeers, and in less than two thousaud
years 1t could not be numerated at al =.
Fowler once said: "No nation can
long live and prosper and have It's people
pay six percent interest on morey. This
must impoveri-h the people, and as
poverty and misery increase by the
domr stic freside, so will crime and i'm
morality increase in the land"
Now tsis business of lrnding money for
the interest it pays has b. en- going on in
this country FIR perhaps several hundred
years at rates ranging from 6 to 80
percent, until today the people are paying
more interest than the people are pro-
ducing.
But where is all this to endP Every
thing must have an end, excerpt what is
diSine, and there doesn't seem to be
much 10 all this that is divine.
Capitalism is cultivating germ
that will destroy 1t by producing either
socialism, anarchy or revolution. The
combinations of large capital, manipula.
ted by corporatiun for the purpose Of
cheapening production and destroying
com petition in the interest of capital, Is
socialism from the standpoint Of capital.
The association Of wealth manipulated
by the government for the purpose OF
cheapening production and destroying
cOmpe etitiOn, in the interest Of the whole
people, as socialism from STANDPOINT oi
labor. Now you pay your money and
you take your choice. Socialism from {
standpoint Of labor would be peaceful
revolution, as 1t would admit Of no Llood
shed. Anarchy would destroy all govern
ment, and revolution would destro!
everything. Again yod pay your money
and you take your choice.
As the world goes under capitalism
the second class takes all that can b
taken from the first cl IS; then In turI
the third class takes all that can be takel
from the second class, and SO we go.
People kill of the flies that ammo
them, the bugs that eat their potatoe
and the vermin that destroy their fruit
while they elect TO Office the humal
sharks that are ready to take everything
and leave them nothing. oh, consistency
thou art jewel. A. j. klNTI.