The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-03

Those dry goods men too are prepar-
ing to enlarge their business and some
of them will occupy buildings where
once liquors were sold.
Time for Adjustment.
1t takes little time when a certain
industry is abolished for a readjust-
ment of business conditions. No mat
ter how destructive an industry may be
when it is abolished men are thrown
out of employment and the houses it
occupied are empty. But is only a
short time until the men who have
been employed in the destructive in
dustry will be employed in some pro-
ductive industry. and the houses that
were used as places for carrying on of
the destructive industry. come to be
occupied by productive business and
the wealth of the community is in
creased by the fact that the destruct-
i've industry is abolished, and the de-
, structive laborers are employed in pro-
, ductive lab@~.
! Productive Industry Defined.
There are three classes of industry.
viz: productive, non-productive and
destructive" TO illustrate, the farmer
is a productive laborer, because he
, produces wheat, IN, fruits, vegeta-
bles and such things as the people
must have in order to live. The miller
Is a productive laborer, because when
he grinds the wheat into -four, 1t is in
| more desirable form than when it was
in the grain. The baker is a produc-
tive laborer because when the flour is
holx cd 10 in rah
than when it was in the -four. The de-
liveryman your doors is a produc-
! tive laborer, because when the bread
is delivered to your doors, it is in more
desirable place than when it was at the
bakery. Whoever performs any work
that meets the necessary wants of the
ductive laborer, because the tendency
of this class of labor is to make bet
ter society by making better men.
J NOn-PrOductive Labor.
productive labor may be de-
fined as labor which is legitimate in
the sense that 1t Injuries no one, but
produces nothing, or adds nothing to
the wealth of the world; or to the per.
manent good of mankind. An illus
tration of this is the class of stock.
=, spectators. They study to know the
values Of commodities, and work as in.
tensely as any other class perhaps
but no bushel of wheat will produce
more nutriment because a wheat spec.
ulator bought or sold. No railroad
has greater carrying power because
thousands Of men daily buy and sci
the stocks. Not a dollar is added t.
the wealth Of the world because thes,
men speculate; yet if all the 'bucke
Shops" pool halls" and gambling
places were abolished, temporarily i
would work hardship until such tim,
as a readjuStment could be made anC
these persons be occupied in some pro
ductive business. These men are no
destructive in their occupations, they
destroy no values, they do not reduc,
the labor power of the working man
they injure no mans health, add moth
ing to our taxes, do not increase the
criminal record, are not necessaril,
bad men; but are parasites on society
because they add nothing to the wealth
of society, while they live by the la
Dor of others.
Destructive laborers are those whose
labor destroys something of value
Som etimes these are necessary, as il
the case Of war, where the creates
success is the destruction of the great
est amount of the property and life OF
the enemy. The people of the South
have reason to know what this mean.
when they reflect how their country
was laid waste and their armies de.
pleted. The people of the North are
yet paying pensions to men with
wooden legs empty sleeves and dis.
eases caused by the war. Yet this wal
did not in the year of the hottest con.
test kill as many men as the liquor
traffic has killed every year since; mol
did it cost as much in money in thai
most awful year as the liquor bushes:
has cost every year since. Now why
| should any one claim that it would
hurt business to stop this destruction :
l heard it said by timid ones thai
when the soldiers all come home and
go into the industries again that bust
ness will be paralyZed with overpro.
duction." Temporarily some indus.
tries were crowded; but in a few years
the readjustment came, and these sol
diers had settled on the plains OF
Kansas, Nebraska and all the middle
west to redeem the prairies. They pen
etrated the south with mills and fac.
tories and conquered in production
where they had conquered with the
sword. They harnessed the lightnine
and the winds and made the forces OF
nature do the work of man power. In
a thousand ways 1t was better fol
these men to have become producers
than to have continued as destroyers
Now, you merchants who believe
the abolition of the saloon will hur-
business, where do you get YOU
clerks? Do you go down and select
them from the crowd of saloon loaf.
ers on Front street. or do you de.
mand that they shall be sober and