The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-29

NOi WIN WIN convincing plauSlDlll-
ty their immediate purpose was fully
met. The paper production in which
they We're most concerned was that
upon which the handsome stock certif.
Gates OF the company We're printed.
He Immediately turned his guns
upon wage workers OF the printing
and paper trades.
by personal solicitation and printed
literature he piled the members Of
these trades with the argument.
Make this your own industry! Here
is the opportunity for you to keep In
your own hands the thing which is
going to reyolutionize the paper bust
ness Just as the typesetting machine
has revolutionized the printers craft.
You can, by coming in now, WITH
small investment per man, place your
selves in control of an industry which
Will hold in its grip product of mil
lions of dollars year-a product
upon which the whole paper and print.
ing world depends for its existence"
This was an argument which every
man in the mechanical department OF
newspaper or a commercial printing
establishment, and every paper mill
or paper company, could understand.
1t met him on his own ground and he
began to see visions of himself as one
of the powers in the very industry
in which he was an obscure wage
worker. What a turning of the tables
there would be when the world
awakened to the fact that this great
'revolutionizing invention" was con.
trolled by the men at the type case
and machines, the printing presses.
the stereotyping tables, the pulp watts
and the paper warerooms. Then the
last would become first. the pape,
industry would be ruled by the men
from the bottom of business; the
journeyman would be the magnate
and would know the feeling of power
and authority!
BY scores and hundreds the wags
workers in these trades rallied to this
cry and the leaders among them were
taken care Of in way which made
them feel that they had already come
into their own. These bell-Wethers
of the craft marshaled their follow.
ings with a sincere confidence that
they were leading the way to a finan.
cial Utopia and the promoters rubbed
their hands in satisfaction at the rate
at which their Illuminated stock Ger.
tificates were demanded by the work.
ers who wanted to become captains of
industry and manage for them.
selves" Certain subsidiary and
allied" companies were organized
for the purpose of giving more OF
these men official position-to dis.
tribute to wider number the thrill
that comes from putting a hand on the
pilot wheel of affairs
The outcome of this revolution to
place the trusting wage worker in the
control Of an industry of his own Is
fully covered by the suggestion that
the farmer is still blowing under the
dead cornstalks upon which the news
of the world was to have been psint.
cd Meantime hundreds of faithful
workers in the printing and paper
trades are finding it more difficult TO
manage their own personal finances
because of the deficit created by the
investment which was to make the
industry their own
The ambition of the wage Garner
and the man on salary to better his
condition, to make his surplus work
for him." to find broader expression
for his individuality and abilities in
business way is both natural and com.
mendable; but he will make a poor
start In the line of that ambition if he
fails to realize, at the outset, that
finance is as much technical trade
as that which the typesetter, the ma.
SON the carpenter, the maChinist or
the plumber follows, and that il would
be no more absurd for the banker or
the man of finance to attempt to set
galley OF type, lay a brick wall or
serve at Z machnist's lathe without
technical training, an apprenticeship,
than for the journeyman in any OF
these crafts to take financial opera.
ton, no matter how modest. into his
own hands, independent OF the guild.
ing council of the man who knows
the ropes of finance. And the invest
ment in stock or a bond is a trans
action in finance" IN the strict and
fun sense of the term
The man Of small means, unschOoIed
in the ways of finance, might Just as
safely hand his pocket mOnev or his
savings bank account over TO an utter
stranger who promises TO meet him al
certain place. at some future time.
and give him something valuable in
return, as To put his money in.o the
stocks and alleged securities which
are being foisted upon the public to
day by the beating Of publicity drums
and the bLare OF promotion trumDets
One OF these transactions does no, re.
quire Ait greater stretch OF creduli
~ than the other
Let the man who has an ambition
TO manage his small savings beeG
steadily in inind the fact that the
concern whose literature or solicitors
attempt 10 influence him against seek.
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