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

they have their use.
S.-We ought to be able have more
sense than the bees. When they get
through with their drones they kill
them and throw them out. we HUI
man bees work and suffer to keep our
drones in case and elegance. | would
not advocate the killing of our drones
but put them to useful work. We
have about 100000 idle people
called tramps in this country, $780,
900 preachers, about the same num-
Der of LAWYERS, 1000 bankers, clerks
etc, handling money, 100000 per-
sons engaged in the drink business, a
big army of real estate, insurance
commercial travellers, peddlers of every
description, and all the people engag-
cd in mining for gold and silver, and
many others who live hut do nothing
useful in return for all they eat, wear
and enjoy.
]. S.-If you abolish all these occu-
pations what would you do to find
useful work for them.
S.-We would at once reduce the
hours Of labor in a day to what we
thought would be enough. For i'll
stance: If we would adopt socialism
now, as soon as the waters go down
in the Mississippi river and its .tribu
taries, the government would put one
or two million mon at work with the
best machines that could be devised
and by the time winter set in all that
river bottom land would be absolute
X safe from overflow. There would
be irrigating canals made where they
were needed. More railroads, more
good houses to live iii. If we would
adopt socialism now and all the able
bodied male persons from 10 to so
wears Of age work four hours day
for five wears, by that time we would
be living in towns and villages, farm
ing from the centcrS out, and every
family would have q good home, an
electric light i'll every room, and all
the convenieuccs that human inCenu-
itv could invent, but which none but
the rich now enjoy.
|. S--The American people don't
want socialism. Some say we will
have better times as soon as we get
more protection.
S.-Pr0tcctiOn is a tall0cy and hum-
bug. If YOU are making shoes here in
town and am raising wheat outside
and | bring III some wheat and trade
for some of your shoes, and as go
out home a man draws gun on me
and takes q quarter of the shoes be
cause I traded with YOU, think YOU
would call that robbery wouldn't
YOU?
]. S.-Certainly.
S.-If wher ! go home, at the corp
Grafton lire OF your town, strike a
customs house and the customs collec.
tor pulls the law on me and takes q
quarter of the shoes because trade
with YOU what would YOU call that?
!. Swell he has right to take
them for the law says so.
S.-YOu are mistaken about the
right, it is only a privilege; it is legal
robbery. 1t makes no difference in
the pinciplc OF tariff about us trading
with foreigners. They are human be
ings producing something We want,
and we are producing things they
want. 1t rs almost as necessary
to trade rs it is tC produce, fer with
our WAY of living no one person can
produce all the different things they
ought to have; So ifit is necessary to
trade, people ought not be fined for
trading, and that is all the tariff is
|. S.-Ifwc let goods come in free
other countries would flood this
countriN with goods and throw our
people ont 81 work.
S.-With this system tariff makes
the rich manufacturer or dealer rich
cr, and if they get richer the poor
must IN the very nature OF things get
poorer. II YOU let the poor torcigncr
come here and work By The side oil
those already here the result is the
same as if lac worked i'm Europe and
the goods sent here. Ofcoursc every
person coming here now is a rival to
those already here, but with social
ism there would be no rivalry in that
way, for every ono that was abb
wond have to earn has living. Ii
YOU would wall the country in SO no
more could get in, there IS SO much
machinery il don't take half the poor
people 70 do the work now. If an
employer has twenty men to pay to
do a certain work and tomorrow
ne can get a machine and one man,
do YOU think he Will keep the other
nineteen any longer,
S.-Certainly not.
S.-Every cent paid as tariff is rob.
berry II some one is protected some
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