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

IL 81
Official Seal)
Anent Public Ownership.
Dalbo, Oct. 5, 1910.
Editor U n-Please publish the
following letter:
What is the inner meaning of the
standpatter's square deal? You
gentle farmer that tills the soil and
does the most honorable work of all
mankind, you that does not demand
in advance what your pay shall be
for your labor as all other laborers
do, you that raise everything for
humanity that is the very existence
for man to live on, you that goes to
market with your finished products
and ask some other what your
product and toll is worth, you that
fought and went and voted your
standpatter's platforms to the present
day, do you know or don't you know,
what it may mean, this great howl
from our standpatter's square deal?
Now, honorable voter, whoever you
are, put your microscopic glasses on
and put your reasoning power in
motion and we will investigate to-
gether the great howl of our stand
patter's square deal. Now, you can
really begin to see some, can't you?
Look at this great human organism,
that is in motion struggling for. exis-
tence under the destructive law in
nature, who are standpatters sense as
competition; look here, you honest
voter that seek the truth and we will
observe some small entities hurrying
around in wheels in this great human
organism; see, how they are travelling
around soliciting with a satchel in the
hand, note how styley and discipliney
they act: see what soft hands those
entities have; we'll, note now they lift
their hat for humpbacked farmer
over there. Now note, those entities
seldom produce anything like We
farmers do; they seem to stand unani-
nous for the square deal, from the
rag peddlar below up to the great
worship hero, and saviour of the day,
Roosevelt. ..
Say, you politician, it looks pc
culiar to me. How does those entities
get their products made? I noticed
they were selling all the time. Well,
they only deal in the finished
products; they are the smart set of
fellows you heard of, that know how
to live without producing, the way we
do. I don't understand your logic.
Well. I see you don't understand the
meaning OF your square deal. Don't
you know the word "deal" originated
from the word dividend, which. repre-
sents division? The opposing prin-
ciple of cooperation of the mathe-
matte system, division represents
dividing up; cooperation represents
put together. Now, we are practicing
division, dividing up. For example,
farmer, if you have ten dollars, give
me five dollars; see, you are un-
doubleday confused that we stand for
division in government. It is not so.
we work to stop progressing further
OFF from the center. in the mathematic
system. We work to cross the center
in the system and progress onward in
the cooperating principle of the
mathematic system. (And let me
serve notice on you opposing poll
ticians and small dealers, that the
trusts have crossed the line and is CO.
operative in principle under the pri-
vate ownership and nothing under the
sun can stop them.
Now, you, Mr.. Farmer, you are
under the iron heel of this square deal
system. You tried to inaugurate the
equity plan but you failed. You see
you should have stood at home not
entering the dealing system. You
stand on the same step you started,
only a little worse off. You have
been exploited of so many dollars for
buildings and things that you paid,
merely to establish new place you
can 60 to and ask what your product
is worth. Now the dealing system is
based on private ownership. It is the
very foundation of present govern
ment. Under private ownership, it is
natural to take mere value of things
produced, and that is why the actual
cost of production is protected. The
actual cost of production is measured
by time, not money. The money
value is applied after the time of
labor spent to produce an article.
For example, an industry owner pro-
duces billion of articles measured
by time value. Say this is in the
footwear line of industry. The time
is measured by ten hours time labor;
each ten hours time labor is produc-
ing two pairs of shoes. The industry
0wno,. sets tho nrioo ~ shoos ona