Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-09-26
~Sandsprlng Farm,
mug. ID, VUI
Ed. REPUBLICAN,

In one part of the last REPUBLICAN is
a prayer asking God to do for us certain
things; in another workingtnen are urged
to consider the matter of immigration,
and are told that IL it continues the re-
ward of industry will be reduced. With.
out cooperation with the will Of God,
prayer is Of no avail, so consideration, or
thought, if it bases not on truth, maj do
more harm than good.
If we accept the proposition of the eff.
fects of immigration, we become ~fatalists
or socialists; we must believe that God
made man as He did acorns, thousands
must perish through crowding in order
that a few may live, or we must believe
that If wages are to be divided with a
continually increasing number Of work
men they will tend to the minimum at
which a man may live; the latter is the
soliastic foundation, and their remedy
is the production and distribution of
wealth by the state.
1t is doubtful whether the population
of the earth is greater now than it was a
thousand years ago, and the area of the
earth's surface required to support a fam
lily is not yet decided. 1t would seem,
however, that the greater the population
the easier should be the living, for the
greater the subdivision of labor the
greater is the production of wealth. 1t
is evident that ten expert specialists will
make a wagon quicker than one man
will; forty me will do on wagons in one
day the work Of one man in a hundred
days. Remember one digs ore, others
smelt. others made axes, saws, &c, 9th.
ers cut trees and make spokes, &c, 9th
ers deliver to the factory; many men are
employed in this subdivision of labor,
and each workman is rewarded accord
ing to the degree of service he renders.
This then I take to be the reward which
the Chicago paper says will be reduced
by immigration, the reward of industry.
This reward is paid in money for a SER
vice, and if a man gets this money with
out rendering to the community au
equivalent in service, he is apt to write
such articles as we working men are told
to consider.
Consider that hawks are enemies to
chickens, therefore the more hawks there
are the fewer chickens there will be; but
consider now that men eat many more
chickens than hawks do, and it is true
that the more men there are theNnore
chickens there will be; so with more
men. if workingmen consider with natu
raj sight and, they will find that the
more wages they will get, but truth must
be the rock they judge by.
In a new country wages are high, and
interest on capital is high; consider the
reason of this-it is because land is plen-
tiful and natural opportunities are open
TO all; now comes population through I'M
migration, or otherwise, land is monop-
olized, and the high wages Of the work.
ingman and the high interest on capital
fall; not because less wealth is produced,
for it is just the contrary there is a mil
lion times more wealth produced in Kan.
sas City than when it was a farm. Why
Them 1t is simply because some people
get the money without giving service in
return, this money, which ought to go to
labor and capital, is absorbed by the dog
in the manager, by the man vino charges
toll to the workingman for the privilege
to live and work on the earth. You don't
believe it! The Wall Street Journal gives
a table showing J. p. Morgan's influence.
/ omit the items, but the total comes to
more than 5six billion dollars, and he
owns a great part of this. Now Morgan
started poor. If he worked and per.
formed service worth one hundred dollars
per day for thirty years he would have
81 ,e95 900. Where did the rest of his
fortune cone from, il not from toll on
workingmen? You say it is all right,
Morgan is a smart man, and you, or some
Of your children, may be able some day
to do the anne as he did. Then quit
praying, quit considering. get there any.
way, it will be all right! What is the
remedy Chief Justice Marshall said,
"The power to tax involves the power to
destroy" Then tax privilege.
WoRKINcMAN.