Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-06-20
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OLYMPIA
THEATER
PROSPERITY GALORE.

Ed. STANDARD:
Who says we are not prosperous?
just think OF it for a moment and
imagine, if you can. how any one with
Q thimblefull OF brains could doubt it.
Our national wealth, according to
the census report for 1890, was $780,.
469, O0O. 900. OF course, it is greater
now. Of this, the capital class or .
per cent. OF the population, own $42,-
4OO, 0OO, 900; the middle class 80 per
cent, 81, $50, OOO, 900, and the work ing
class, or producers of all wealth, 81
per cent. Of the population, 81, TAG, OOO,-
900. Now with these facts staring you
in tho face, how can you have the
cheek to say we are not prosperous?
I'll admit the fact that the wage.
workers who have produced all this
wealth do not own the land, farms,
mines, mills, plants, railways and in
dustrial systems of the nation, but
what docs that matterf They have no
business being wage workers; they
ought all to be capitalists, of course.
II nine per cent. OF the population
didn't own nearly all the wealth, how
do you suppose they could afford to
employ labori
The great steel trust manager,
Schwab, gets only $3,205 for every
working day in the year, and you fel.
lows howl because you get only $l.5O
to 81 per day and think you are not
prosperous. Say, don't you get full
dinner pail" such as it isl Don't you
manage to keep soul and body togeth-
er? What more do you want? Do
you want the earth and q down hill
pull? Then what are you bowling
about Schwab is made OF first. class
mud I'd have you know, while you are
made from the commonest kind OF
clay. You are assuming too much
when sou claim more than . mere
living. That is all you are entitled 10,
and you know it, or you wouldn't 60
up to the polls and vote for the same
old racket. In addition to the quar-
ter of q million miners that have re.
Gently struck, notice the following:
Two hundred cement and 500 lime
men at Glenn Falls, N. Y, are on a
strike. Two thousand wage-slaves OF
the Coates thread trust are on strike
at Pawtucket, r. l. Three thousand
people are out OF work a. result OF
strike OF weavers in Camden, N. J.
Almost q total tie-up is on in the
building trades of Denver, Col, a. q
result OF 5000 men going on q strike.
One thousand two hundred girls en-
ployed in cigar works at Detroit are
on strike because of their great pros
perity. You never in your life saw go
much prosperity. It's falling around
in great chunks. You don't suppose
all those "plebeians" would strike
themselves out Of q job if they weren't
prosperous, do you? You must be ad.
died. They want chance to spend
their money that has accumulated in
such abundance, and they can't do it
and work all the time; you know they
can't.
Then quit your bowling and "vote
| it straight" or you'll never get an of.
gee. Just think what a friend you
have on the Arbitration Board in
Mark Hanna. OF course you may say,
at looks like putting the fox in the
chicken yard, or the wolf in the sheep.
fold to care for the Sheep" but you
know from his past history that he has
always been friend of the working
man and down on all sorts of monop.
oily. Great man Marx!
By the way, see from that stalwart
Republican paper, the Iowa State Reg
lister, that ]. Pierpont Morgan's per-
sonal profits on Financing" trusts
and combines. aggregate $l72. SOC. 600.
and that he will endesvor to make it
aggregate at least $200, 900. 900 before
the present year closes. Now will you
be good and stop your bowling with
all this evidence Of prosperity
]. C. COG.