The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-01
Bill JinkinS' SAYINGS.

socialists in existence" says Bill
Jinkins this morning, "The only way
they have of making money is by di-
yiding other peoples earnings. They
stand in the doorway of the working
mems prosperity, and not only bar
the entrance but make them pay toll
for passing by Their constant cry
is s'dividel divided" and not passer
by escapes. They never produce
anything but pfnics and high prices.
They do not so much as raise pig
for home consumption. Their wives
toll not neither do they spin. Their
sons have never produced hill of
potatoes. And the girls? Not a
fathers daughter of them could knit
q pair of socks to save her from
social ostracism. Nothing goes but
business. Even matrimony is bust
ness venture. Husbands or wives
are sold to the highest bidder. After
ward finding no love on either side,
they begin to realize that a human
animal has been purchased at high
price. They then prepare to devote
their time to the vices most fash
ionable at the time, and seeing less
OF each other than any one else they
get along admirably. They constitute
goodly part of the ''upper class, !"
like the ''skimmings' on cane molas-
ses, they owe their position to their
specific gravity or their utter useless
ness to their fellow beings. But
much unlike skimmings in ability to
harm. In this they are more like
leeches, or rather like cannibals who
live on the flesh of their fellow men.
Their knowledge of arithmetic
only reaches to division but they
know all the short cuts. If work
man produces fifteen hundred a year
he's lucky to get five hundred when
they divide with him. If he wishes
to consume any of the things which
he has produced he has to divide
what he has left with half a dozen
who have handled the article since
he made it. When he is removed
from the consuming class, if he has
anything left, it is divided among the
lawyer doctor and coffin trust.
His children are divided among his
relatives, if all humane feeling is not
starved out of them, and the widow
divides her time between the needle
and the washtub. The controllers
are so situated as to get the best end
of the deal. No matter how affairs
go with the rest of the country. In
or adversely their divld-
ends come just the same.
If there is an overproduction the
producer must stand the loss. If
here is an underproduction the con
sumner pays the extra price, and as
producer and consumer are the same.
t is easy to see who has to bear the
Drunt of the battle, neither is it hard
% see who always come out unhurt
and cries for new worlds to conquer
they can always find men to do their ,
lighting for them, and they fight
lard. The reason for it is hard to
explain. It's good deal like a {
crowd of boys who loaf around the |
rat in sorghum making time They
un off froa home to keep out of
work, but they are willing to do any
hhbS thoe VIC UOSo VI tue IQlll lellS
hem to do, no matter how hard it
nay be, and all the pay they ask is
he privilege Of licking the "skim
nings. "
They know all the time that they
ire not getting good molasses, but
heir fathers licked 'skimminps'
When they were boys and 1t is still
visionary.
Some people support the trusts be-
'ause Abe Lincoln saved the country
You may not be able to see the con-
'istency but it's good logic as com
Jared with other things. Some sup.
bort the trusts because the trusts are
prosperous, imagining that the more
he trusts rob the more prosperous