The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-17

that this plan will not stand the less
with any very large number of persons.
If too many follow this advice wages
then will fall. With the city workers
going to the country, the demand in
town for farm produce will diminish.
If the people get saving streak
on the farmer finds that in place of
the families using thee usual amount
of good, wholesome food they use only
the cheapest Where they formerly
a day. they now have it once. and in
using some of the numerous cheap
dishes that you see pictured by this
class of wouldbe philosophers In
other words, the people are doing just
what the merchants and the manufac-
lures have all along been telling them
TO do. at the same time hoping they
would not follow their advice.
Can you not see what would he the
result if the wageworkers would make
up their mind that they would save
just 10 per cent of their wages. COM
mencing the LIST of September Would
not the business fall off Just that
much? We must have in round num-
bers something like 100000 laborers
in the United States. and 10 per cent
OF their wages means quite sum. The
plan is all right If confined to a very
few. but it will not admit of very wide
application.
Under the present system of econ
omics it is the man who gets his wages
on pay day and spends them for the
useful things of life land I am going
to let him be the judge and jury in
that case so long as he does not inter-
.ere with my rights to the same lib
erties,. who keeps the wheels of COM
merce in motion. 1t is not the man,
who, when he gets his wages. sends
the larger share 10 the old country or
salts ii down in some savings bank
TO be used by some wildcat Spectator
of president to squander.
what use would the railroads be if
the whole laboring people lived as
the large majority of men who now do
the work of building the roads, Would
they pay" No. they would not. And
because the laborer wishes 10 help
them by using them to visit their
friends We hear the cry of too much
extravaganza on the part of the labor
ing man.
1t makes ME smile to read. as we so
often do. how John d. Rockefeller of
standard Oil fame lived when a Young
man. and how he saved money ON such
ana such wages. as if that rule would
40 for all men, If all men lived as
cheaply as he did. do you suppose for
one moment that he could have amass-
ed ms fortune" What would the
clothing men do if they had no better
customers than the late Russell Sage?
HOW many dressmakers would Hetfy
Hreen employ? II all men had been as
close nsted as Russell Sage. do YOU
'hihk he could have loaned out his
money at the interest he did.
Rockefeller would only state to
MS hearers that his recipe Is not for
y she general public. hut only for a
rev. otherwise it would not work.
,or one would have no quarrel with
III" OF DINERS of the same school But
wien lheS 80 to telling the Young
men mat they can he rich and have
F." farm II they will only live on any
where from cents to IS cents, | for
o draw til cline and say Won will
nave To show me.
Thomas B. Farmer.
!, me supreme court Of Saxony has
ueel"e" mat boycotts and strikes IN a
was" war are not punishable by law.
"n" 'hal employers cannot demand
compensation for losses caused
IT is reported that the Switchmen.s
Un n OF North America. one of the
arse runway organizations, has afrili-
1.eu WIN the American Federation ~
~. me , labor unions of Los Angeles,
al increased their membership TX
Der cent during the pust twe,ve
months. "e''e
n sailors Union of the Pacific is maxi
ng demand for an average wage
Increase for all hands Of S. a month
Inc Carpenters Union of Butte.
on cos Is e. ere ees aGo handsome temple
Dr the organization. s