The Saint Paul globe., 1899-12-02
Ell MODEL0 CIGARS,
Good for gold and silver Democrats.
THE PRODUCTION, OF WEALTH
REV. .. u. SMITH DELIVERS THE
NINTH IN HIS SERIES OF
LECTURES
Explains the Operation of Labor and
capital and Wages - Statistics
showing What Machinery Had
Done I'm the Way of ProductioD

rev 3 q. Smith delivered the ninth of
series OF lectures on municipaf matters
at the Y. M. c. A rooms last evening
pelore small but appreciative audience
ne TOOK for his subject The Production
OF wealth" and said in part:
work is an effort to satisfy human
wants. The objective result of work is
wealth. Capital is that part of wealth
Nhlch is used In reproduction. The wage
Garner IS rot alone the producer of
wealth. the contractor, the banker, the
SdlesIhan' and every one who produces
OF assists in gratifying human wants
comes under this head. The national in
cChle IN any given year is the total of all
producers lnproducing the things that sat
lsly human wants. The division of the
ProuucC goes into two funds-interest or
rent and wages. Capital takes one share,
tie other goes to wages. The increase of
wages means the reduction of interest or
rent. wages ale paid by what is called
? lhe IRON law of wages. Wages are not
paid from the current work, bur from mast
work, Work is for the future, and wages
are pald from the past. Production has
peen increased per capita for the last 100
years, consequently the national income
mas been increasing yearly If YOU in
crease the wage fund YOU diminish tha
interest fund, and if you increase the in
tefese tund you diminish the. wage fund.
never is there period of depression that
tne manufacturers do not talk loud about
the money being lost CAPITAL ALWAYS
TeeIs that If there are any profits If
should Keep 1T, and if there are any
lcsses they should share them with their
Fellow men. Labor used to be the larger
factor, but capital Is now Labor Is more
dependent upon capital than 1t used to
De- The factory system has deyeloped
the social instinct and has created the
modern city A shoemaker used to make
ZOo PAIR or shoes year, now he makes
with the aid of machinery 1900 pair. One
glfl used to weave one yard OF cfoth
Where now she WeaVes 100 yards
In 1861 100000 men engaged in textile
manufacturing turned out what 800 coo
men did In 1890. These machines have
not thrown men out of work; but have
opened up avenues for other lines of en-
ployment. 1t is true that the rich are
becoming richer but it is not true that
the poor are becoming poorer. The saw,
lngS bank deposits have increased in the
last thirty years. There is.ea differences
between money wages and. real wages
There has been an increase of 10 per, cent
In wages In the past Year, but the Price
of commodities has increased IS per cent.
STATISTICS show that the average wages
nave doubled in the fifty years from 1910
10 1S90 and the, purchasing power of wages
had increased in the same time The
hours of-labor were steadily decreasing.
They used to. be eleven hours now nine
and ten were pushing toward eight The
general tendency between 1880 and 1880
was toward manufacturing and away
from the land There were 300, ,OO) less
men engaged in agriculture in 1880 than
in 1880. Women had been introduced in
manual labor between 1880 and 1890. In
1850 there Were comparatively few female
stenographers while in 1880 there were
$1,000 so employed. Men had not been
crowded out by women going into work.
Women had taken up the small wages
and men the larger wages. The wages of
women were lower than men for the rea-
son that they had less endurance, less
skill and only worked for temporary
period. The world would be better eff If
ali the women were turned out of their
jobs. One of the great evils of the pres
ent civilization was women wage earners.
They reduce wages and do harm. Ma
ture intended men, should do the work
and women take care of the money after
1t was produced While women labor
had increased child labor had decreased.
Wages of brain are and always should
be better than those of muscle
In the discussion. which followed the
letcure Henry CARING expressed very pro-
nounced views on the subject of capital
and labor. The talk, he said, about capi-
tai and labor joining hands was all talk.
The enly object capital had was to get
labor down to the lowest wage. The only
thing labor, could do was by strikesnand
boycotts to wiring wages from capital.
Capital robbed labor by device, stealth
and brains. Capital did no useful work,
but planned and schemed- Labor had
produced all the wealth and capital now
had it.
Mrs Conde Hamlin, president Of the
Woman's Civic league, urged the mem
bers of the class to attend the meeting of
the board of aldermen Tuesday night and
make an effort to have the resolution
passed which gave the health department
charge of the garhage. next wear.