The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-21
The Efficient Spear Maker.


special privilege is the power unequal oppor
tuny and the problem of what is the fundamental form
of unequal opportunity in industry can be solved
and expressed in simple law, 1t should not be hard
to find fundamental and simple remedy.
The schools of medicine have gotten away from
the old idea of applying salve the running BY
scientific diagnosis they determine wheth
err it results from skin infection blood trouble They
hunting for the root of the trouble
ing merely surface manifestations
So far in the treatment of the eruptive sores due
to special privilege, remedies have been applied only
to tho surface indications. The the trouble re-
mains undiscovered. Labor feels grind increas
ed living costsef yet explained satisfactorily
and demands greater share of the profits
ness in wages Rather than make this fixed amount
tho managers of the business, having in mind the
varableness of receipts year year. are delud-
ing themselves and their men by profit-sharing
schemes They seeking to balance the manifest
evils of the workings of special privilege They are
applying salve to the surface The tariff is
blamed for very great share in the high cost
of living and Immediately cutlery is raised revise it.
Again would the attempt be made to equalize the
harmful effects of but branch Of special privilege
The trusts held accountable another phase OF
special privilege and President Taft believing they
seeks the dissolution of great combinations I'm.
der the Sherman act.
Every branch. practically, Of special privilege is
under fire and remedy is sought for each Yet there
must be and there is fundamental law under.
lying all the branches of special privilege Since is
unknown it must be unwrten law. Discovered,
the way Is then clear to effect through written law
the utter elimination of all special privilege by the
destruction of the root of the evil
One hundred thousand years ago two prehistoric
spear makers sat side by side plying their trade One
made spears of exceeding straightness of shaft and
sharpness Of flint and the other hurry to witness
the latest match between Stone-ciff suggers and
the River bottom swatters, hastily assembling
monet and imno rfocflv
points. The first efficient The second was in.
competent The first sold more spears at q better
price than did the second Both however, sold direct
ly to the consumers and all the consumers bought
of the efficient maker as of the incom-
petent one, paid the price set by the varying workman
ship of the two for their respective No Dur.
chaser secured better price. Each spear purchased
of the efficient maker cost one beaver skin
One day man. who sat much of the time
apart from the rest of the tribe and
dreamer. came to the maker of efficient skill
with this propositions
Point out to our incompetent spear-maktng friend
the wasefulness of his ways persuade him. in con-
sideration OF sharing with you percentage OF his
increased output learn under your direction to
make the better kind of You will both be
gamers by this transaction.
Then. inasmuch as the output of we'll made spears
will be increased greatly will undertake to find a
market for it among the members Of neighborng
tribes will have to carry large stock of spears
ME my trips however, in order economic of my
time and transportation expense and in consideration
of that fact you ought sell spears, bought in
large quantities, for considerably less than you
them to the individual members Of our tribe
profitaby undertake this proposition il you will sell
100 spears at time at the price you ask for
eighty.
Il have thirty beaver skins hand. 1t will take
eighty purchase the first hundred spears. If you
will accept the thirty skins down pay you
the fifty when return from my first trip viii give
you in addition. in consideration Of this aecommoda,
ton. thJoe skdns."
The efficient Spear maksr accepted he dreazner's