New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-16
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 49, 1907.

the agent Of the insurance office to have been
ing room curtains Here AGAIN, Is 3i'GS Ssts9eo
to a spike of rock and he is looking for sea
birds eggs the face Of sheer Gin = = So" -
summit that the rope frayed yard or TWO tD9Vss
his head. They are anxious tof ms saLety re
anybody asked them why theF would answer, 10,
cause his life depends on the ropes not e7i,,
sound but that tho spike OF rock 20 |iih M -
attached shows signs of being about 70 iIli' tiT
anxiety by saying that MS life depends no. on th9
rope, but on the rock. IN eIIi'e' tI15'saSd other
things wen; but in either case ore cause 3'y
cause or factor whose continuance or cessatson -
alone open under the circumstances 70 any W.
For Similar reaso 1s and similar sense the
majority are the true prooucsrs OF that amount OF
wealth by which the total annual outpHt' Al 80 eg
produced by the laborers if left 10 their own uG
knowledge or faculties but such as are posSssseI
@ 6opeT is On no donbt as essential to the pro
Il minimum product such aS this; but II IS not ue
of the increment or OF the difference DetWST
the two products, in any practical sense; Tor Whe
the product changes the labor renlaias Ins s me-
and there is no question OF lts eeasLls uIi,es2 %
labOrers cease to exist. There never can pc a
iefI alone in world where there is no compulsory
iab0r0r 3r 1tgR@ ash but there
is constantly question when the security OF social
drawn from the efficient guidance of ability; or.
in other words of the action of ability being tenn
the non-appicaou of the directing faculties to the
Ia3or OF the majority, which is bound TO continue
Ia any case-these are the sole aIeIilFtS. w H[t ~
these faculties are thus applied the OUTPUT. "a
lgG VII" t OK y 0Tectca sense of the words cause
exercise them, the true causes or producers OF
the whole of that portion OF the wealth OF any
community which comes into being with their
acti 'tv and disappears or dwindIes with their
Lei me give you two examples Of this reasoning
occurrences in the world of business IL that
great productive industry Is developed ana pros
lie dies and the business passes into other hands,
and though II may continue 70 stiCeeG Momentum p
which his talents had imparted to IT, it gradually I
ability Is superior TO those OF the men who IN
his own business have succeed MN a If he
give you an example, on a aFEtr Sy1t, "i VI -
converse procsss-that In which t9e ao!.!ty OF le
Eldu.I 5ailureS' Is on ,,,ir ~ tIa onateenth
Great Br i avsT at gae nome That Would have
each family II the entire wealth OF the country
been statIsticans estimate about 500 or 50 Eng
llsh pounds Eighty years later the total actuaIy
divided, have given each family an income OF
about S4St mus wage eTmef5 oil Lo&ter b6IrS
actually divided among themselves more wealth
mossessions Of every capitalist and land owner had
been made over to them in perpetuily at the De
Here we have from the aborcrs point Of view, q
he incTeasing Concentration OF ability ON the opera
tons of labor itself To return 10 smile made
Use OF on a former occasion the higher tho quality
and the more intense the action Of the esoePJt39a
ability to whose guidance labor submits itself, tue
larger IS the volume of water pumped up into the
reservoir from which wealth is distributed 70 the
various members Of the community and so far IS
ability to-day from stealing the water pumped up
Iv itself that it is by this time apIroprdt ting an N
cTeasine quantity ~ the the supply. OF which
Is due wholly 10 ability. In other WORDS thous :
In q great variety Of details tie existing order Or
things requires detailed Improvement, the. WFoIe
material source fund from which material IN
movements be- drawn consists in tn0r" adll-
tions the national wealth and The continued sus-
tentipn of additions achieved already WNiCu are
due to the activity OF that minority operating by
means OF capital. whose powers and functions are
ignored bv the popular socialism of Karl Marx, and
whose means ~ operation would he taken from
them bv the socialism Of Sidney Webb.
Tn tLs latter 0ueetfon-to the socialism Of the
new socialists-T shall refer again I'm greater de