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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-17
The Parable Of the Water Tank
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THERE was certain very dry land, the
people whereof were in sore need Of
water. And they did nothing but seek
after water from morning until night, and
many perished because they could not find it.
Howbeit, there were certain men in that land
rest, and these had gathered stores Of water
where the others could find none. And the
name Of these men were called capitalists
And it came to pass that the people Of the land
came unto the capitalists and prayed them
that they would give them of the water that
they had gathered that they might drink, for
their need was sore. But the capitalists an
swered them and said:
"Go to, ye silly peoplel Why should we
give ye of the water which We have gathered,
for then we should become even as ye are, and
perish with you? But behold what we will do
.upto you. Be ye our servants and ye ehall
have water"
And the people said: "Only give us to drink
and We will be your servants, we and our child
rem" And it was 90.
Now the capitalists were men Of understand
ing, and wise in their generation. They order
ed the people who we're their servants in bands
with captains and officers, and some they put
at the springs to dip and others did they make
to carry the water, and others did they cause
to seek for new springs. And all the water was
brought together in one place, and there did
the capitalists make . great tank for to hold
it, and the tank was called the Market, for it
was there that the people, even the servants
Of the capitalists, came to get water. And the
capitalists said unto the people:
'For every bucket of water that ye bring to
us that we may pour it into the tank, which is
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-17
Write TO III Our AdVeltiIsls and Mention This Paper

Us PRAISE what laudabe Alexander
1he were always working but the seed they
Industry only expeent valuable the nation when
produces good fruits 1t is only audable the individual
when inspired by noble motives You suppose that
nations which do the the greatest nations
You must not fall into the of the economist and sup
that the people who produce the creates tor the
worhest people, Before praisng nation for it's
ness and industry We should inquire the things they
duce are noble worthless things and if the labor
hands is the labor of slaves of eemen-of artists or Of
Phiistnes
The kind Of industry worthy of praise the kind which ie
useful in it's ends and unsesh it's objects IT, colony
there were scarcity of corn few land and
the rest had to till it for their food the landlords gave only
pound OF meal for days SERVICE and set the days
fourteen hours the servants would have work hard They
would have work like beasts burden or sarve or fight
II they toled and suffered would you call their slavery indus
try? Would praise and honor them noble and gent
men? should they towards and fools to endure this
should their lives laboous but not Industrious
that their efforts worthy in them credtabe
them than those of the who ags in the shafts all
day-for dread of the whpthong his drivers hand. But
that the form of industry to-day that
the kind OF industry the peer and the bishop and
the capitalist have in their minds when they the dignity
of labor and the virtue Of industry and when they
upon the minds of the working audiences gories
'honest toll"
Suppose the changed with colony The land in
the hands of the people, but it's yield meage and bread is
scarce The working day fixed at ten hours that being
senta to the production Of the smallest yield capable
porting life Would you call the who worked his ten
hours faithfully day after dayand industrious
man? Would you say he to praise and admire?
should say This does his duty and and is
not virtue for to do his duty This bears
relation to Industrious that honest bears
to generous The honest pays what is due That
all his dutyas he understands -demands If he did
he would be rogue But the generous man not only pays
what is claimed-he gives what is wanted.
Again. suppose man be left to support himself Though
he worked twenty hours day to get food uxures for him
se you would not call that laudab because the motive
purely selfish one, and all the labor is for his gratif
cation But this is form of industry much lauded by
pastors and masters This lonely selfish glutton
made the stuff of which very many heroes have been made
He painfully like the held up to examples to
copy and idols to worship He is the kin who gets on
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-17
INDUSTRY


When Socialists complain OF the misery of the poor they
often told by Pressmen Parsons and politicians that all
the suengs of the poor due to their vices and folly
Thus short time ago. the Manchester Examiner and Tmes
in reviewing little book of mine went out of it's way offer
lesson in political economy and announced that the mis-
cry of the due o SIM hereditary and acquired
The Examiner implied of course that the misery of the
people due to their sin.
This the very of the truth The misery Of the
due to the sin negligence and ignorance OF those
who rob them of their earnings and grow rich upon their
moral ruin and physical destruction lis true that poverty
is the result Of ideness Of mprovidence and of vice?
it were then should always find that the de the VIC
ous and the mprovent and that the Industrious
the thrifty and the temperate we'll off, But is fact
that many e vicious and mprovident people rch and
it fact that the poorest people in the world the
industrious, and sober and thrifty.
Now, want to convince you of two things Firstly, that
the vices of the due to their surroundings
the surroundings being due the vce secondly
universal industry and thrift and temperance amongst
poor would tend to make them poorer than they
The Sins laid to the charge of the poor three:
l. Ideness.
2. Improvidence.
8. Drunkenness.
The first charge a false libel So the poor being
criminally idle, they criminally industrious
The second charge misnomer The improvence the
poor clearly due to ignorance that should be called by
that name
The third CHARGE that Of drunkenness has greater foun
daton Of TRUTH although believe from my personal obser
vaon which has been extensive that the poor much
temperate than many of their critics would have believe
First of ALL let consider this word industry You
hear industry praised virtue think the thing
tue in ITSELF The virtue lies in the motive and method
There virtue in plough It is used instru-
ment for good according it useor preparing the
field for CROP for tearing the garden of enemy
with industry We reed of those whose hands cunning
devise evil thing, and whose feet swift to do inquy
We should not praise burglar for his industry though he
might rob dozen villas in week. doing is get
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-17
Subscription AG6Ounts FIRE Rlpe We Fire Htt6t Them

Return again to colony The land is the peoples The
hxed working hours ton day. but the fields are not
enough titled and the harvess still poor Now suppose
some man seeing this goes and works five daily
or the common good he industrious man. He is made
the stuff Of which real heroes spun Or that
that and spade bone are overmatch
ed in the struggle to bread the obstinate soil and
seeing this gives ell his thought and me sacrifices all
pleasures and DESIRES to the designing and
structng plough other engine relieve and feed the
weary and famshed people-we, say that industri
that noble His work is "honest toll" and
he is a hero.
Or suppose another Of man who loves work
loves musa He abors at his chosen art with all the
power he has, with all the thought and love- courage
and patience Of his nature With devotion that rebuff
can shake with affection that triumph weaken he
stands at his e his piano content aborousy and
obscurey to cte eautu things for their sake Then
say, that man is industrious He most val
liable to his fellow creatures but he is hero
the described just There great difference be-
tween work and between task work and work choices
and this derence palpabe it is man like me- who
has tried both abor-it often lost sight Of by
morass who make their business preach to the
Between the nsvvheeling nterminabe barrows Of clay
endless miles fixed pittanoe and the strug
Cling author paint living dry bread dreams in
garrett there this immense difference that the
vys work dull, monotonous uninteresting task with
motive but that Of winning animal subsistence
except for the physical powers and hope beyond doubt
full promotion to the post Of the work painter
the writer howsoever poor and obscure he be- labor Of
love labor that 10 in ta pleasure recreation and
educaton that epoys and trains the highest facu
ties that inspires the heart and brain with the brightest
hopes that holds out to the poorest and insignificant
it's drudges at least chance little PROMISE however remote
of the highest honor and the most magnificent rewards
It all very we'll for the business man. the parson
thor the engineer the member of Parliament abuse the
workman ide thress, and drunken but let do the
workman justice Let remember that his work neither
exciting pleasing ennoblng remuneratve Often
heard professional say Talk about the working cass
what do they know Of work? They work hard
They have not the worry and strain that mental work
volvee manufacturer doctor-a lawyer-my work
done All this trne The doctors work. the
thos work DONE But remember that he loves
much that he would wish DONE He wrapped up
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-17

| capitalists by reason OF the water of the cap.
| italists, that they might have thereof and live
they and their children. And they spake fol
the capitalists unto the people, and did their
embassies for them, seeing that the capitalists
we're not folk quick of understanding neith-
or ready of speech.
And the capitalists demanded Of the sooth-
sayers that they interpret this thing unto them
wherefore it was that the people bought no
more water of them, although the tank was
full. And certain OF the soothsay yers answered
and said, "It is by reason of ove1production, -
and some said, ut is glut": but the signi6ca-
tion Of the two words is the same. And others
said, may, but this thing is by reason of spots
on the sum-" And yet others answered, saying,
1T is neither by reason of glut, nor yet Of
spots on the sun that this evil hath come to
pass, but because Of lack Of confidence"
And while the soothsayers contended among
themselves, according to their manner, the men
Of profit did slumber and sleep, and when they
awoke they said to the soothsayers: ''It is
enough. Ye have spoken comfortably unto us.
Now go ye forth and speak comfortably like
wise unto this people, SO that they be at rest
and leave us also in peace"
And the soothsayers went forth to the peo-
pie and expounded unto them the mystery Of
OV0THTOOuCLlOu, anu low ~ Was GQdG Uu0y ulu6C
needs perish of thirst because there was over
much water, and how there could not be
enough because there was too much. And like
wise spoke they unto the people concerning
the sun spots, and also wherefore it was that
these things had come upon them by reason
Of lack Of confidence And it was even as the
soothsayers had said, for to the people their
wisdom seemed emptiness. And the people re-
viled them, saying: "Go up, ye bald heads!
Will ye mock us? Doth plenty breed faminel
Doth nothing come out Of much?" And they
took up stones to stone them.
And when the capitalists saw that the peo-
pie still murmured and would not give ear
to the soothsayers, and because also they fear
ed lest they should come upon the tank and
take water by force, they brought forth to
them certain holy men (but they we're false
priests), who spake unto the people that they
should be quiet and trouble not the capitalists
because they thirsted. And these holy men,
who were false priests, testified to the people
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-10-17

the Market, beholdl we will give ye penny
but for every bucket that we shall draw forth
to give unto you that ye may drink Of it, ye
and your wives and your children, ye shall
give us two pennies, and the difference shall
be our profit, seeing that if it were not for
but ye should all perish"
And it was good in the peoples eyes, for
they were dull Of understanding, and they dill
igently brought water unto the tank for many
days, and for every bucket which they did
bring the capitalists gave them every man q
penny; but for every bucket that the capital
lists drew forth from the tank to give again
unto the people, behold! the people rendered
to the capitalists two pennies.
And after many days the water tank, which
was the Market, overhowed at the top. seeing
that for every. bucket the people poured in
they received only so much as would buy
again half bucket. And because of the excess
that was left of every bucket did the tank
overflow, for the people were many, but the
capitalists were few, and could drink no more
than others. Therefore did the tank overflow.
And when the capitalists saw that the water
was overfowed, they said to the people:
''See ye not the tank, which is the Market,
doth overflow? Sit ye down, therefore, and be
patient, for ye shall bring us no more water
till the tank be empty"
But.when the people no more received the
pennies of the capitalists for the water they
had brought, they could buy no more water
from the capitalists, having naught wherewith
to buy. And when the capitalists saw they
had no more profit because no man bought
water from them, they were troubled. And
they sent forth men in the highways, the by
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-05
UNION WATERS
Refuse to Serve Food to the New
EMPLOYEES.

A crowd of 80 men arrived from
various towns Friday evening and
Saturday morning to work on the
telephone lines. OF this number the
strikers claim to have induced 20 to
join them. Friday evening crowd
Of 10 arrived at o'clock. They got
nothing to eat till nearly o'clock,
and then ate supper in the office Of
the Central Union Co. When they
first arrived they were taken. into a
nearby restaurant, but the union help
refused to serve them with food, and
the proprietor was threatened with
boycott if he allowed any food served
to the new men. Another restaurant
was sought. 1t also refused, and the
men returned to the office of the Cen
tral Union Co. Manager Druckemiller
then arranged with an establishment
to cook supper and serve it to the
men at the Office The name of this
establishment was learned by the
strikers, and the union help informed
Of the situation They refused to
cook, and the proprietor notified the
company that the order was Cancelled.
Finally place was found where the
necessary food was prepared and
served to the men at the office.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-05
CLASH CAME.
Continued From First Page.)
were persuaded to ioin the strikers

were persuaded to join the strikers.
BE = man." argued the strikers.
IF YOU have a spark of manhood in
you assert it now," and the two
yielded amid the cheers of the crowd.
/ The wagon started in the alley be-
tween the Buchtel hotel and the Gen.
tral Union Office toward Main ST..
but had to be backed out. In the
alley was a box on which stood a
porter of the hotel. This alley"
said he, sis private property, belong
ing to the hotel, and as l am now
occupying it in handling this box,
you are invited to go back"
This announcement caused cheer af
ter cheer, and the wagon was backed
out. 1t moved in Maiden Lane alley
to Quarry St, on Quarry to Main, and
on Main to Market, and on Market
to West Hill. 1t was followed by
crowd, and all along the line the new
employees were Missed and jeered.
They, however, began work and con-
tinued without serious molestation.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-05
POLICE SERVICE.
Manager DruckemiIler Says Off
GERS Kissed New Men.

Manager Druckemiller, of the Cen
trail Union Telephone Co., complains
bitterly against the protection afford
ed by the police. 1t will be recalled
that he and Manager Laubach, of the
Peoples Co., called on Mayor Doyle
several days ago and asked that he re-
commend to the City Commissioners
the appointment of special officers to
guard the new employees. The Mayor
replied that special officers were un-
necessary, as the regulars would af-
ford ample protection
Il have almost arrived at that
polnt" remarked Manager Drucke-
miller to Democrat reporter, Satur-
day morning, where | shall state to
the new employees, Gentlemen. pro-
tect yourselves, as you may expect
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-05
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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-05
BOYCOTT.
Strikers Talk Of Operating II
Against Telephone Companies.

The supremest measure thus far ap.
parent in the conduct of the strikers
is an alleged attempt to start boy
colt against the telephone companies.
1t is claimed that an effort has been
made to have users demand that their
phones be taken out on the grounds
than union men and union SYM
pathizers cannot accept service given
through the instrumentality of nom
union workmen taking the places of
union men on a strike. 1t is not yet
apparent to what extent such a move-
ment can be pushed.
Many of the new men imported have
long been in the employ Of the Bell
Telephone Co.. and the Peoples CONF
pany has also secured experienced
men. Both companies have full forces
now, and claim that if protection Is
given them by the police they will be
little inconvenienced by the strike.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-05

little from the police Thus far. 1
have cautioned our new employees
against carrying arms, and have urged
them to disregard their personal feel
ings when assailed by jeers and vile
names. believe that none of our new
employees carries revolver or other
weapon.
1T is a disgusting crisis in the
state of public affairs when the police
Of any town allow their personal senti-
ments to wholly control their conduct
in serving the public, yet just this
condition in the most aggravated form
exists in Akron. Friday evening /
was walking along S. Main ST., with
a small crowd of our new employees.
At the corner of Mill and Main three
policemen were standing together, and
these officers openly and very audibly
Missed the new men as they walked
by. I believe this is intolerable in
officials of the city. What must men
conclude when they come here, and
are Missed at by the very persons to
whom they would most naturally look
for protection? We are engaged here
in legitimate business,-have en-
ployed men to do our work, could con-
duct our business without hcon-
venience from the strikers, yet have
been interfered with and can get lit
tie protection against It, The strikers
are very few, but to get protection
against them it looks almost as if we
would have to go into Common Pleas
court, and secure an injunction
restraining them from doing the things
police officers are sworn to abate and
prohibit