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nos the @udieaee appreciated hs. ssil-
ny a. publie speaker. We make
ed ii0rial osusmaui ga ansfsor page.
-oae sf his striking points are re-
/ ported below
The l@bor pscsiem is the psosiem
gf humsniiy II .s labor iron sh,ca
power springs. Labor ieed- And
T guides the common . eaith aud raises
natson from poverty 40 wealth.
I W a0 shall d0abi that u will eoase 10
its own, Ne are "a the midst of the
naightiest social revolution ever
known. The whole basis ct industry
is chang ng from a competitive 10
cooperative -yssem.
Beginsinq with labor conditions iu
/ iuedsl times be showed ho~ political
and social emancipation was obiai ..ea
and how with the simple too.- ~
which the soil was titled. garments
woven aud commerce carried on each
man became independent.
Man is tool using animal, well
nigh helpless hes he is deprived OF
it. The tool is simply AN extension
OF the workman's srm. His develop.
mcnt j. largely the history of the inn
proyement OF the tool with which he
works. When this tool was simple
aud easily handled, 10 make a living
was simple and a. he could own his
tool he could control the product ION
of his hands. When a man learned
trade he was independent, virtually
hA7 "" " hheiti. Ihtlf Wtft w uiti-
liOnaires. Even the employer was
working man who worked with the
same tools. This age was slow. 1t
took man two days TO make a pair
of shoes. During that time he wore
shoes, wore clothes, ate food, con-
sumed almost as much as he created.
But the startling and wonderful
inventions of a century have changed
all this. There are no simple tools.
IL man would make shoes he mus
own great factory where the in
dividusl makes only hundredth
part of shoe. II he would engage
IN transportation instead of building
wagon or sail boat he must pay
several million for railroad or
a steamship,
Production has been vastly multi
piled. The average man today pro-
duces 20 times as much as formerly.
lie cannot eat 20 times as much nor
does he get 20 times as much wages
In 1890, according TO labor statistics,
out of $40 90 produced the workman
received S213; in 1900, ten years
later, out of sl0 90 the workman re-
oeived but s1.77 or only IL per cent
of the wealth he creates. The labor
ers are 60 per cent. of the popula.
ton. The other 40 per cent. cannot
possibly consume the remaining s.
per cent, OF wealth. According y We
have over production, the cause OF The
panic of s93 and which is rapidly
preparing for a greater one within
the next three years.
Mr.. Debs depicted how the skill OF
fingers which formerly took years 90
acquire has been gradually transfer
red to machines which can be oper-
ated by children, over two million of
whom are now employed in factories
and shops. Skilled labor has become
common labor. Competition between
workingmen FOR Job is fierce and
growing iercer. A man has two
hands and brain. Why doesn't he
work? Because the other man has
the tools which cost thousands or
millions Of dollars. Even in farming
the small farmer must sell out, Cor in
a very few years he cannot produce
grain At a price from which the big
farmer will reap handsome profit
/ The Mnrk kman cannot ccmnete MlIL