The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-10-13

than one-sixth of production produced
today. Now this is in the manu-
featuring line of industry. Now this
gives you the key to the high cost of
living. Organized labor demands
more money to buy for and, if thew
win strike, owners of industry set
the price of articles so much higher.
The result is labor handles a little
more coin but the same amount of
production. Now il will be clog in
business soon, the owners don't sec
how to sell the product the workers
can't buy. Now you see how easv ii
is to become multi-millionaire and
Millionaire and how easy it is for
those fellows to give million for
such and such enterprise as they want
advanced.
Now, you little square dealer, that
deals out the coffee to the farmers,
don't think for moment you know
the exact cost of production. All YOU
know more than others, is ''this price
it cost me, this price I have to have in
order to exist under competition. -
Now this world market has been to
unload this product our nation has
been unable to buy back but that is
soon clogged also. The right way is
to lower the tariff, which means stop
the wheels until market gets cleared
up.
Now, your worship hero, Roosevelt,
comes out in the insurgent movement
to lower the tariff and the inaugural
ton OF strong army. Why, it is de-
sirable for the captains of industry to
lay down the tools of production for
some time and they know it is danger
Gus If the masses don't get work.
That is why they want a larger army.
1t is no enemy beyond the waters,
now they are within. It is public
ownership of industry they fear, where
the machine will be the slave, when
man will get his full product of their
labor and an exact system of govern
ment inaugurated, that is what thew
fear.
NO doubt you farmers have been
under the iron heel so long that you
really believe if you get large crop
it is worth less than small crop. If
there is big harvest in every line of
industry, the present loathers in
possession of government comes out
and tells the truth by saying, "the
national wealth is so many more
billions of dollars more this wear
than last year" accordingly every
line OF industry should receive more,
but they don't. This is the way thew
handle you farmers. For example, it
takes ten bushels per individual to
feed our nation, we call that a
hundred per cent. Then it is failure
OF crops, then the captains of industry
set the value of wheat to dollar a
bushel. Next year we receive two
hundred per cent wheat, twice the
amount we consume, then it is over
production and they call the value of
wheat fifty cents per bushel. You
farmers, according to meet your obli-
cations, you are bound to give two
bushels of wheat for dollar. Do
you observe you handle the same
amount of exchange every year, look
ing over the situation as whole, not
individually? But who gets the other
bushel of wheat our nation don't con-
sumo? The trust, merely by regulat-
ing the price, and then they export it
for whatever they can get for it on the
worlds market, see? This year when
you honest toilers of the soil received
twice the amount that could be con-
samed, you had better wheat, better
quality and consequently was worth
more. You got twice the thresh bill,
twice the work all around, but re-
ceived half the pay.
Mr.. Farmer, cooperate with US,
work little less and think little
more and you will discover the right
road to freedom. It does not depend
on an equal distribution of anything
remember, we are all born barefoot
and leave the same, therefore this
physical plane shall be established
for use and not for profits.
OLE E.. TOLIN.
Public Ownership Man.
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