The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-10
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WEALTH..
Land-that is. nature-is not the
source OF all wealth; II is the ma
terlal which the necessary labor of
man, transforms into weabth, and with
out which there could be no wealth
of life either; but until that trans
forming function has been performed
on 1T. it is no more wealth than the
fixed stars.
Now, although man himself and all
his works are products Of nature, and.
although in that large sense, nature
is, therefore, the source of all wealth.
yet In order TO get at the equities of
the wealth question" as between man
and man. VIC must. as Huxley says.
consider man apart from nature, and
as simply a member OF society.
Wealth" as a term of economic
science, has a definite. distinctive
meaning; ii must be something that
has an exchange value. Now. if ey-
erything we need was as plentiful
and as easily appropriated as the air
we brcather there could be no eX'
change value. therefore no wealth,
Therefore, labor Is the only source
of real wealth, and the laborer the
only rightful owner of wealth. This
is the truth. and we challenge the
world TO disprove it.
But remember that the only labor
that can produce wealth is necessary
socially necessary-labor; and
other kind oil labor such as digging
holes In your backyard and filling
them up again. may he good eXer-
else. but it cannot produce an eX-
change value.
Now. we may be asked why do
The People go to the trouble OF stat
ing these Shings. seeing they are
so glarngly evident as TO be the
tritest and simplest of common
places"
The reason we do is because ecom-
nomic superstition. as expressed in
the actions Of the vast majority, de-
nies in toto every onQof them, and
rewards labor in inverse proportion
TO its usefulness. and TO its quantity
the harder and more useful your work
the smaller its reward This is fact.
Don QuiXote Kipling has. the sun
day Times" tells us, removed the
button from his foil. and is running
amuck against Socialism in a story
called Melissa" He might as well
as the Church did 300 years ago
run amuck against the solar system:
we have no time for the bought and
paid for bard OF St Jingo.-Sydney,
Australia People.
Official reports OF the wreck of the
Slavonia off the Azores tell of the
removal of the first cabin passen-
gers to comfortable retreats ashore
and all their baggage saved early in
the morning, and OF the l-ecrage
passengers being left aboard til af-
tcrnoon, their quarters flooded with
the incoming sea. their baggage all
lost. and their final landing TO seek
comfort in the open air without blan-
kets" Shakespeare was wrong when
ne Sdlu All Tue "pllu oNoeS'
All the worlds a Slayonla, with the
steerage passengers, those locked be-
meath the matches of economic de-
peudence, continually getting the
worst of it.
The Rev DR. Charles A, AlIed, more
generally known as the chimney
sweep Of the Standard Oil Conscience
is in error when he declares that John
D. Rockefeller. the chimney the SCOT
OF which backens the Rev, DR., all
over. Didn't found the Chicago Uni
versity for just one sect" Yes, he
did Mr Rockefeller founded the
University for Just one sect-the sect
OF Religion of Capital.-W. P,