The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-23

who do useful work-produce enough
each year to clothe, feed and house
all and give to each sufficient to make
it unnecessary that the hand OF char
ity be extended to anyone Except
the afflicted and imbecile). Probably
MI Arthur Davis would like to know
what production has to do with so
cialism. So long as enough Industries
are in operation and the workers re
ceive a part of what they produce
they are able to consume a portion
of the products, but there is certain
TO come a time land many believe
that time is here now) when building,
railroad constructing and manufacture
ing must be curtailej and those en-
ployed in these lines of industry must
seek other lines of work. 1t is notable
that the foreign market that takes our
surplus goods is being rapidly closed.
The latest government reports of
exports OF domestic merchandise for
June 1903, to June 1907, shows
-teady increase of American goods
I'D to foreign markets. The year
907 shows a decrease of 500 millions
Japan has been one of our best Gus
toners, but that country is forging
ahead as manufacturing nation
even building its own locomotives,
etc, and it is probably this fact that
caused the Rogers Locomotive Works
to announce the closing of its plant
Nov. 1st next. So long as Japan can
find markets for her surplus goods she
will enjoy prosperity, but as othe:
countries increase their own product
ions her output will be decreased
and panic" will follow just as we
had last year. Thirty days after the
! railroads were, unable to handle the
! great quantity of products, the bottom
fell out of the business world and
mills, factories and furnaces had to
shut down until the surplus could be
| disposed of-meantime the workers
| are starving, stealing and adding to
| the size of the chain-gang.
Reports come from all over the
country of the rapidly increasing army
of acknowledgement, too, has the
| largest number of unemployed it has
ever had in it's history. You see it is
| not a question Of ism" but a condi-
ton, and what are we to do about it?
1t is a condition that permits or en-
ables a few to reveI in luxury and
| wantonly waste while the many are
compelled to do without The few
who perform no useful work take unto
themselves more than they could use
IL they lived a thousand years, while
| housands-millions are on the verge
of starvation. go half clad. live like
beasts and children-babieS-a driv
en- to work before their bodies are ma
tured. A Christian country We call
| ours-the word is a mockery. Picture
to yourself-no. you need not picture:
| there is too much practical evidence
| for that-think of the sixteen-yearold
ho01ino new dress hif nf rihhnn
oh, how it tears the heart of the
| father, the bread-winner. to say NO,
but there are the grocery and doctor
bill. rent and other actual necessities
to be met. Then comes the panic"
no new dresses for any of them, now,
and winter is upon them, with cold
and privations added for the thou
| sands, and monkey dinners and lavish
| living for the few who do not work,
| but, like leeches, live off the blood
and sweat of the poor.
Again, referring to government sta
| tistics, we find that today, with ma
| chinery so highly developed, man
produces in three hours sufficient to
support himself twenty-forr hours
! We have socialized streets, partially
socialized postoffice system, then why
not socialized system of production
and distribution of life's necessities?
Socialism would insure 10 every
one all that he produced or its equiva-
| lent and that means every worker in
the United States would receive about
| So, 500, instead Of S437, which is the
average wage per year. Who gets
the other 5000? 1t is the fellow
who is sharp enough TO make you be.
lieve he is doing you a favor by TAX
| ing it. and when you fully realize this
| fact, you will quit dividing up with
| the slick sucker to the tune OF $3,063
year, and vote for a cooperative
commonwealth.
w. A. SMITH.
| Pensacola, Oct. 81. 1908.
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