Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-15

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nitting all manner of crimes. You
know the old adage, 1.-The devil finds
work for idle hands to do"
S.-That adage is not true. In 1895
Sc. 900 rich people went to Europe
m pleasure trips and spent $50, O0O,-
boo. They had no work to do; moth
Inc but sightseeing and enjoying
themselves, and there was no record
of a single one of them consisting Il
Tine against the law They were
Committing moral crimes all the time.
FThe nearer the poor can approach the
condition materially that the rich are
lin now the less crimes will be commit
ted.
I.S.-Well, your theory sounds well,
but you can never put it into prac-
tice.
S.-"Can't" never did anything; try
1s the one that succeeds if anyone
does. If you had a cord of wood to
cut, and you never tried to cut it,
would you ever succeed
|. S.-No, but this is different; the
rich have got the power and the mo-
nev and they are going to keep it.
S.-They have no real power. You
see a man driving 16 mules; they mind
him If they knew their power and
wanted to use it he could not han
Idle them; but they have been
Broken and made to believe that
fhev had to mind. The same
way with the human mules: one rich
Imam has broken thousands of them III
land made them believe they have to
mind him. The rich would be like
khaff before hurricane if TIE poor
knew what their rights were. Rights
are natural. Privileges are given by
Enan-made laws. Without law no
b-ieh person could hold his wealth Il
tlav. Without the people there would
b. no law. If the people have made
bad laws let them learn to repeal
] hem and make better ones. With all
bur book learning and skill III the arts
Ind sciences the working people are
more ignorant than the animals.
When the animals have plenty of
Heed they all get fat. H'mans who
Boast of intelligence and spend 5000
kOOO, 600 in these United States have
hit got sense enough to make their
i own living, but the workers produce
i all the good things Of life and give the
most Of it to the rich, and use the ref
use themselves or perish in the midst
of plenty.
j. S.-You say the poor give the
| HEST to the rich. TEe rich pay Ter
what they get.
S.-Mv dear sir YOU are badly mis-
taken when you say the rich pay for
what they get. Ii is true they hand
the poor some dollars. but they never
earn their dollars All they do is
To plan and scheme to get the dollars
from the workers and call it business
and profit.
|. S.-Thc rich work harder than
many of the poor. They work their
brains.
S.-Thc poor would like to trade
places with the rich and the rich re-
fuse t. trade SO all people think the
rich have the best but brain work
must be supplemented by muscular ct,
fort. If you had a sack of potatoes
to dig YOU might sit down in the pc
tato patch and think forever and You
could not thinl, the potatoes INTO the
sack
|. S.-If there were no rich the poor
could get no work. There would be
nobody to hire them.
S'-Therc are no rich persons to hire
| the people that handle the mails, or
. teachers in the schools, or the officers
from president down to constable.
| r all these | have named and manY
more can do their work and be PAID
by the public, all workers can he SO
paid.
Everybody would want 20
boss them
S.-Thcv woald like to boss now.
Now the boss gets better pay and
| better treatment in every way. Then
the boss would get no better pay nol
| treatment than the Others and they
would soon learn that the more they
quarre'ed the worse it would be for
the whole community, and they
would be glad to have the most skill
cd person in their industry to superin-
tend them and instruct them so as to
make their labor as productive as
possible. Statistics would be kept OF
all industries, SO we would soon
know how long to work to produce
enough to have an abundance for all
With the machinery we will SOON be
able to produce all the necessafies
and enjoyments the heart can wish III
one hour Dcr day
I. S.--Whv work 10 to II hours a