The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-09-24

the profits would at once decrease ang
, the ultimate result would be a NOR,
, evenly balanced scale OF loss ant
gain. Let me once depart from system
in my work, and / will soon be mum
bered among the individuals who arc
clamoring for my life-bloOd but would
be too indolent and lazy 20 pump uI
the circulation after / gave up tc
them. stand as the emblem of sys
tematic work for which the world has
demanded that be destroyed
Destroyed 10 please those who have
no system. Who have given no atten.
tion to details. Who live from hand.
to-mOuth, and who are enyious OF the
successful. With all my faults, you
can see / am principally the outcome
Of having some system in my business.
If am so terrible as some would seem
TO think why do I transact the bulk Of
commerce? Why do the people allow
me to regulate the price? To control
the output from the moment 1t is
planted to the moment OF It's consump-
ton? Throughout all my ownership
OF the product, / allow fair wages.
besides paying for all the work incl
dent TO the production. Should | not
be allowed my legitimate profit? Are
not the majority Of workingmen and
women under my employment? The
wages are equal TO the work have
done. Few OF my employees but will
cut on a few minutes work here and
there during the day. or will treat my
trade too Independently for my own
good. They think II nothing dishonest
TO cheat or defraud me. Yet, wlthal.
they expect more wages and less
hours OF work. Instead OF making
their services so invaluable TO me that
| am compelled to keep them at in
creased wages and fewer hours. they
resort to strikes. and violence 10 at.
tain what can be quietly and peacea-
bly, had by their own individual ef.
forts. Without a systematic method
the capacity OF doing business would
be so badly handicapped and limited
that the worlds markets would soon
become stagnated. II is impossible to
handle the volume OF business without
the system which you are pleased TO
call a trust" The trust smacks OF
private enterprise to the extreme OF
shutting out the commonwealth OF
sharing in any OF the benefits to the
community, but on the other hand,
wha, is eyerybodys business Is no
body's business. Nowhere on earth
do you find the unceasing employment
OF men as in the departments of the
trusts or corporations. Our men are
working every day OF the year. We OFFER
steady employment 10 all who want TO
work. We exact from our working.
men their best efforts. without the
cooperative method OF business the
worlds affairs would be run on the
peanut scale. The power to incorpo.
rate Invests man with greater limits
and liberties. lie can engage more
and more safely under
than individually. The lib
erty OF incorporation encourages en-
terprise among the people. There
have been occasions when the trusts
fought each other TO the temporary
benefit OF the people. BY doing bust.
ness on a large scale. the profits are
increased to the incorporators. More
products are on the market and more
men employed, Now. what Is the
real, great and vital objections to the
trusts? IL Is the increased price OF all
10 the consumer. This
Increase is a natural consequent to the
pursued. The workingmen
laye the long end OF even this draw.
back, and that Is. that the trust viii
nave TO pay them enough wages so
hey can buy the goods made by the
rusts, II the trusts cannot sell on
recount OF the high price (great
'rohtsl il viii have TO sell at a re-
luced price Oess profO. It must
ook TO the regulating to a nicely OF
he point OF paying the men enough
o they can buy its products. It looks
Ike the people were simply acting in
he capacity OF working for the trust
o the trust would have something TO
ell them; and the trust sells 10
hem 20 pay them wages for working
'r themselves. That's clear. isn't itl
Ven, II ! take away the increased /
ost 10 the consumer. will you say