The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-08-29
(COntinued.)

longer hours, while a great number
starve for lack of all opportunity TO
sell themselves. Instead, each new
Invention will mean that all those
who have been doing the work that
il will do. will work shorter hours
at easier work, and have more time
for leisure education and amuse-
ment. Thus, there will be a great
incentive created for the inventors
because society will know that the
more machines we have, the less
we will have TO work to supply all
| our desires.
Only the best machines, located
IN the best places, will be used; and
nothing will be wasted, IN running
more pia, Is than are needed or in
trying to sell goods. SO we will be
able to produce many many times
what we are producing today and
no one need want for anything.
The soldiers and policemen, the
lawyers with the drummers, the
sign palnter- and bill stlckers, will
be given a chance to do something
that WILL help to make the people
warm and well and happy instead
of being forced to do things that
do nobody any good. All this will
4 M can, that i, will be easy to make
80 many things, that all can live IN
pleasant homes, with all that they
need to eat and drink and wear, and
nave most of their time to think of
other things than then merely AMI.
NAL wants.
| There will then be no city Sums
because every individual who works
will have the full equivalent of that
which he produces, and he will only
have to work short time to sup
ply himself with abundance. We
will have no panlcs because we
shall produce tor use and not for
profit taking care that an overpro
duction does not take place as it
would be folly to produce only to
waste. There will be no strikes
because society being the owner as
we'll as the producer the individuals
composing society would never
strike against themselves. No
lockout would occur, because no
one would have greater right than
his neIghbor in the instruments of
production. Everybody would
have employment because everybody
would own collectively the ma
chimes and tools that were required
to produce, and would therefore
have the right to use them. Thus,
beggars would be thing of the
past; charity would cease for there
would be no one to receive It.,
Starving would not be possible, and
slavery would pass away forever
because there would be no idle
masters TO support.
| Laborers, these things are for
you to do. No one else can do
them: No one else should do them.
No one else as so mach to gain
from them. Yous class ls the class
that today have the skill and train,
ing to operate industry. You have
the common interests upon which
to build a. firm society, and you
alone have the Plumbers with which
to gain the victory at the polls, and
you must be ready to do this, when
evolution will have brought indus.
try to the point where the producer
must either assume the ownership
of the tools of production and dis.
tributlon or lie satisfied to remain
forever a sss,ave' to a monled arts
tocracy.
You have long tied helpless slaves
to the machines at which you toll.
They have crushed your children,
your family and your lives beneath
their ceaseless advance. They
have been the means of your en-
slavemsnt. They should be The
means of your liberation. Are you
"men enough" to seize your oppor
tunity! Will you in this wonder.
full progressive age when the long
battle of man with Nature is at las.
over, and man, through the machine
has conquered at every point-wlll
you now permit that the very in
strument of conquest shall be held
by another class, and used 10 crush