The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-07-23
written for the Karl Marx Edition

The average annual production of
all who work Farmers and laborers)
is $2,450, selling price to consumer).
. The average yearly receipt of this for
the average farmer is about 1915, and
the average yearly receipt of this for
the average laborer is about $325. This
is according to figures from the re-
publican census report tsend for it, !:
out of this 1915 and 1925, respectively,
the farmers and iabofefs have to pay
taxes, interest and profits.
The land in actual cultivation in the
United States is 220 million acres. a
patch a trifie larger than Kansas,
Nebraska and the Dakotas. The gross
receipts of all railroads is nearly ST.
60O,0UO,O0O. All the railroads extrav-
agant expenses is about one-fourth of
that-$4O0, 000, 600.
The government has yet rich sub
arid prairie that can be irrigated by
reservoirs, canals, and by pumping
from the underfiow enough to feed 200
milliN people; 3uJ million acres -of
timber, coal, iron, oil and other min
erals in abundance. The American
socialist demands that the govern
ment, 1.-THE socialistic government, be-
cause the democratic and republican.
don't want to-, shall employ all UNI
employed and poorly paid, and all
who want to work for the government
tnone forced0 making lumber, irri-'
eating, farming, building homes, max
ing goods for comfort, ETC., and pay
them according to the amount of days
labor by each, all they produce in
homes, food, goods, ETC., less the wear
of the best machines, (steam plows,
etc) The pay when every Tom, Dick
and Harry is employed will be about
SIS day (The production now is
about $1,000 day. This will take
in all mechanics, laborers, farm hands,
farm renters and small mOrtgaged
farmers, many farm boys and girls.
A tramp will then rather work two
.to,efeurs weeks q year because it Is.
easier work than to tramp, and this
will secure him enough -four and gro
.ceries to live on. Z
xs The government don't want Or need
THE farmers worn out weed farms, so
they can GO on and raise what they
can eat The government don't want
.orsneed the old trust railroads and fac
tories, SO they can make all they can
SELL tnot nuch). One million men
with latest machines can build $4,000
miles of railroad in 500 days; one
years profit of the old railroads will
pay for building all railroads needed.
The Artluvian Cooperative associa-
ton is organized to carry out the
ah5ve ideas by voluntary cooperation.
This will meet with least resistance
from the most people. Pretty soon
when the biggest panic takes hold, al.
the people will be glad to have the
government employ the unemployed
This will also settle the land and trust
questions. because when the laEorers.
(the market) employed by the gov
eminent raise their food, land in IL
linois would only be worth 81 an acre
for deer parks. The trusts would dis
appear when the laborer had shifted
to government employ.
But we know that the government at
present will not do anything useful
and the socialists are not yet in pow
er. Supposing, then, that all regard
less OF party vino have hum.nity's
welfare at heart, join their intelligence,
labor and at least 81 $50, 1000, and en-
ploy all who want to work for them,
paying going rates in goods. ETC., (no
rent). Employ one-fifth at making di-
vidable goods as wages for ali five
tifths. Employ four-ffths at making
tools. machines, factories. farms, ETC.,
tcapitaD, thus enabling them to five
double the amount of men employed
every year. In twelve years their
capital would be 100 billion dollars.
Then turn it over to all and pay all
they produce. This is one way. They
need no market and cannot fail. May
have to raise wages some, but then
it would only take few more years
till all could be employed. OF course
all who desired could become members
OF the cooperative association ii they
desired after four-fifths of their pro-
duction had reached $3.50.
While waiting and working for So
cialism through politics, we, a half |
million socialist voters, and all who |
will join, must commence to practice |
IT Immediately by voluntary co-opera-
ton on a large scale, the same as If |
we we're the government, so that if we
fail to get control of the government |