The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-12-10
Some Questions Answered.

Some Questions Answered.
l. Will there be any money in circu-
lation under Socialism, and If not how
will A get pay from b for his produce,
and how will B get his out Of G?
9. Ii a citizen desires to travel to New
York or Europe, how will he pay his
fareP
3. How about absence from work?
OLE JOHNSON.
During the transitory period from pri-
vate to public ownership, money will be
necessity. This will be a generation,
perhaps. But when Socialism shall
have been fully established, money will
be useless and hence disappear. Neither
A nor b will work for each other nor
will they have products to exchange.
They will work for the public govern
ment) and the government will give
them credit for the time they are en-
ployed the public will own the products.
When they want any products they will
go to the public's great stores. Every
article will be sold for the average time
it cost in human labor, directly and in
directly, to produce. Thus each will
pay in time the price of articles. There
will be no buying and selling between
individuals, for that would be no change
at all from the present.
You would pay the public the time
price for travel just the same as any
other article. Railroad fare would be
measured by time instead OF three cents
mile. If you desired to 60 to Europe
the government would write you the
bill OF credit instead of the banks writ
ing it. If you desired to carry gold to
exchange for European money (if they
still used money! the public would de-
liver you ounces of gold at the average
price of mining or producing it just the
same as any other article. The govern
ment would arrange by the exchange of
our surplus products for the interna-
tional exchange. Europe would still
need wheat and other products, as it
does today, and it would get it from our
government instead Of from spectators.
While you were absent from work
you would get no credit for time, just as
is the case today. But you could have
all the time for travel you desired if you
worked six or eight months year, and
have enough saved up to travel first
class too. That is what you can't do
today If you work for living. Specu-
lators, and those who live by interest,
rent and profit, can travel, but not
others. You should study system that
offers SO much to you. Ii it will not do
these things, then it is fraud.
If fighting between two men is crime
then the fighting between two thousand
men is greater crime. The two men
would be arrested and punished for their
action, but the two thousand men are
glorified for their action The two thou
sand men would not fight if the non
combatants did not pay one or both
sides to fight. So after all it is the fault
OF the people who pay taxes to raise
money to hire men to kill each other
that is the immediate cause OF war,
though the causes that induce men to
pay the taxes for that purpose is of gain
of getting the result of other peoples
labor for less than it should be had.
But the world has advanced some even
in crime. The time was when the army
controlled everything-now the army
il controlled by men at home who can
withhold the money inducements for
men to fight; and there would be few
soldiers ii they were not paid.
Socialism, assumes that the proper
training and education OF children is
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