The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-05

ANOTHER MEETING OF THE CAN
TERBURY ANTI-HUMBUG So
CIErY.
CAPITAL AND LABOR HUMBUGs.
(Continued)
"Men have been made slaves OF because
there was no organization among them TO
give them the protection that they we're
entitled TO- Read a few chapters OF the
history OF the old world and see where
the producer has allowed himself to drift
TO.
"I tell ye. it's "A mighty good thing that
the child OF labor has been given good
spanking for his audacity. ana organized
labor 10 the thing that has done H. As
our chairman has said. 40 i say, the con-
dltion that is being gradually brought
about by the combining of all OF the labor
interests 10 bound 20 help this old world
more than anything else by preventing
mo or anybody else from gobbling up All
there is and then placing the rest or man
kind on the charity list, where they can
simply enjoy the humiliation OF asking
for a privilege OF producing something
more 20 please the tastes OF the bosses OF
"Mr. chesley." says John Bates. II
want To ask you a question
"Cio ahead" says Abner.
Did a member OF any OF the labor or
ganizations put the minerals down there
I'm the earth that are worth millions OF
dollars?"
'srhey certainly did not" says Abner.
'Did any OF them put that pile Of gran
ite in the earth2"
"Of course they didn't" says Abner.
"Did any OF the great producers that
you are telling us about, and that you are
trying TO defend. have anything TO DO
with that growth OF timber over there on
my wood lot? Did they have any hand In
growing the wool that Is used over there
i'm Hopkins Mills? on the cotton that
millions OF spindles are spinning through
out New England todayY
Didn't have thing 70 do with the flrst
causes that created those articles, but
they had as much to do with IL as any
body else did" says Abner.
"Thoee things and all other things that
represent the real wealth OF this world
saws John, were created by the same
power that created your body and soul.
and the man who gets possession OF
them. They belong To him. and he has the
right TO dictate wages and prices be
cause he has the power 20 do e. The mine
is his. the factory Is his, and the men who
agree 10 work for him at his price are as
much his as the rest OF his property.
with the exception that the workmen may
rebel under the law. and leave him at
time when he is liable 10 lose thousands
OF dollars There's where the law works
against the employer who has no re-
dress" Vt VI
That's true" says Deacon Thompson.
true as gospel. what's predes-
tinated, is predestinated, and we
must submit to the inevitable
law" And then he rubbed his hands-to
gether dreadful happy like.
wal" says Abner, "I calkerlate that
less than year from now you'll find out
that It's predestinated that you'll have 10
pay forty dollars a month for good farm
hands. and give them a ten-hour day into
the bargain"
Never Never" says the Deacon. "Tn
sell everything I've got and quit farming
fust before I'll submit TO any such rob-
berry"
"Well. Mr.. Chairman" says Abner. 1T
seems the Deacon amt quite so willin' TO
submit TO the inevitable law as he was
trying 10 make out ne WAS.
Now, in answering Mr.. Bates question
/ want 10 ask him one. which is this:
How much will your wood lot amount 10
unless you can get labor enough 10 cut
down the wood and get II into a market
dDle CODulllOH NOu star u tue raw HidN'-
rial but II takes another product OF his
I'm the form OF a man 10 produce the COM
mercial value. The cotton seed has got TO
be put into the earth before II will bulge
an inch In the direction OF created value.
Labor is your neighbor that does that,
and that same neighbor does the caring
for and harvesting. The crop represents
two-thirds labor. Same with wool from
the Sleeps back. and so on all the way
round Il takes the labor OF man to com
plete n dollars worth OF real value Even
the automatic machine requires the at
tention Of a laborer TO see that 10 doesn't
break down or turn of poor work. and
that workman Is bound TO git his share OF
the product that his watchful care is pro-
duclng, even II he doesn't lift his finger
to help the machine"
'Mr Chairman" says the deacon, "Ab-
ner Cheeley is try~C to evade the slain
question. He forgits how everybody suf-
fered last winter when that striking busi-
ness was being carried on down there at
the coal mines. The greatest cuss the
people have ever suffered from"
Then Jasper Corning he jumps onto his
feet and says."I reckon Mr.. Chesley didn't
forgit the deacon sold his six hundred
cords OF wood for three dollars advance
In price the old igger Guess the coal
strike didn't cause 40 dreadful much long
sufferin' for Deacon Thompson"
THAT ain't got anything 20 do with the
case" says the Deacon. II had the wood