The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-10-26
MAN OR MONEY
IS THE ISSUE
Is 1t for the Community's Good
to Maintain Workers Whose
Efforts Are Unproductive of
Real Wealth?


money are crazy. When Jay Gould
was asked to buy a safety car coup
ling devise he is said to have re-
piled, "Irishmen are cheaper than
car couplers' When scientists, phi
losophers, moralists, religionists ed
ucators. fathers and mothers plead
for the closing of the places of vice
in a city for the sake of humanity
and the sanctity of love, they are
answered with a sheer and the re-
tort that These places help bust
ness" Christ asked the question,
How much is man better than
sheep?" These money mad men say
he is not as good. True, it only
takes a year to raise a sheep and it
takes twenty-one years to grow
man. A sheep will sell for three dol
lars, and a man cost not less than
four thousand at the lowest estimate
# he is educated in the publit
schools. Yet these would be 'prac-
teal men" put the sheep before the
man. That is business. Get up
campa gn to clean out the places of
vice, and Immediately we hear the
cry, You will hurt business" Clean
out the saloon, and "Our business
houses will be empty Well sup
pose they are; what of it? Is the
prosperity of a town measured by
keeping the morgues and hospitals
full? 1 know it would give business
to undertake rs doctors, nurses and
grave diggers, but we generally think
that health is a condition of pros
perity, nevertheless. Any set Of
conditions that breeds disease, sick
ness or DEATH that generates crime
even though the crimes cause the
employment of lawyers, stenor
pliers, clerks and Jurors; is bad for
society, not only because of the de-
moralization. but because it takes
these classes out of the productive
Industries, and places them in the
class of the nom productive.
We are crashing, surging and
fighting to get something, rather
than to be something. Men with
more money than they can spend
are grinding the faces of the poor
for more. Business men who ought
to be hilanthropists, regard the
goods in their stores as more valua-
bic than the lives that manufacture
them, sell them and buy them. They
and hats and pants, rather than hats
and pants and shoes ror men.
They talk about improving the
streets with the tax on vice; and
allure hundreds to vice in order that
the places that pay the tax may be
supported. Were streets made fol
men or men for streets? These
wise business heads" seem to think
men are of little consequence COM
pared with them
Every time we have a temperance
agitation, some great philanthro-
pist' CD arises and says IF the towr
goes wet 1 will build great eight
story block. If it goes dry, l will
not build" OF course any one but
a fool knows that he Is bluffins; but
suppose he did build with the money
accumulated from the product OF
vice and crime and suffering and
blood and tears: what of it. If he
builds, the stones in the wall will
cry out against him and the hearts
he has distressed will curse him.
The nation that puts business
against human life. and greed for
gold against home and love, will per-
ish. Our nation will not perish,
therefore the saloon will go.
Principles of Social Protection.
Man is not the only form of life
on the earth that lives in social or
CARNATIONS. The ants form colonies,
live in cooperative societies, and if
one of their number Injuries the
colony, he is severely punished or
killed. Bees live in hives, have di-
visions of labor and all work for the
good of the colony. Horses go in
herds, birds in flocks and human be-
ings in communities, Now there are
certain fundamental principles neces-
sary to the success of any social or
ganism. no matter whether it be of
the lowest or the highest form of
life
The first is that every member of
society should do something useful
for the society of which he is a part
Second Society has a right to
protect itself against any Individual
or any aggregation of individuals
that injure it,
We affirm that no organism can
permanently endure that will not OBJ
serve these principles.
Tried by these rules the saloon has
no right to legal sanction, neither
has anything else that is manifestly
injurious.
From tie Standpoint of the LabOreI
The laborers may be divided into
three classes:
The first are productive laborers
The second are non-prOductIve IA
borers.
The third, destructive laborers
The productive laborers are those
who produce the wealth of the
world. They add something of value
not always of material value; for We
have already said, manhood Is
above matter. The farmer Is one
of large class of productive Ia
boreYs. because when he produces
wheat for instance. he adds some
thing Of value to human good. The
miller Is a productive laborer. be-
cause, when he grinds the wheat In
TO -four, 1t S. in moro desirable form
than when it IS in the grain. Tit
baker h q productive laborer. be
CAUSE when il Is In the bread. 1t II
in moro desirable form than when i
Is in the -four. The mother VIII
brings a child into the world Is
productive laborer of the highes
type, because with suffering and sor
row and tears and love she adds {
human being to the social organism
The teacher is a productive laborer
because he trains that mind to use