Newark post., 1912-12-04

and tends to diminish production, enhance
prices and lower wages while making
more undesirable the position of the
toIcr.
The high cost of living would bother
10 one we're it not true that the high
cost Of Iiving' means the distance be-
5@crn income and purchasing power. At
present the factory man is given just
enough to keep him at work and he is
charged for food and clothing and
actuaI daily necessities all that he has to
give. The advance of the price Of fool
ami clothing, controlled by combinations,
/ haIts only when the producing class stops
buying because of the high price. On
the farm the farmer is allowed by trans
portation companies, mildlcmen and re
taiicrS llst enough to keep him from quit
ting the farm. Most farmers could easily
! produce much more of certain products
but refrain because the buying and trans
/ porting class allow them too little to
make it worth while to produce the extra
| goods. The farmer can not be prevented
| from eating what he raises, and thus the
farmer fares rather better than other
producers but he is the victim of the fail
urc Of the people to solve the problem OF
wages, of high prices, and of constant
! emplOymcnt, in their own favor, by max
ing great cooperative enterprises pay
| dividends to all the people, that is into
the state or national treasury, instead of
/ into the hands of such gentlemen as
! j. p. Morgan and John ID. Rockefeller
and their associates.
! The process of evolution pushes the
tOilers into positions where they suffer
/ from insufficient supplies. They must i'm
| prove their condition or see it grow stead
/ lily worse. And the bad condition of the
! finances of the average farmer and of
the average toiIPr gradually spreads to
those next to him; the grocer the retail
! dealers generality, the professional class
and at last, the bankers and wealthy
machinery or meat or steel, which mau-
ages to secure high prices and to pay low
cages may benefit its stockholders but il
Injuries ali the small traIcsmpn and all
III" rest of the business and industrial
aorL. pahIc to spend their money
t"irp the WORKERS, must buy the nrccs-
.&ric~ first. and with the trusts getting
most Of what they earn the toiler4 can
cot 10 much business With any but the
trusts. While this rule j. not yet abSo-
lutte it tends each year to bccomc SO. in
Jtmc, il the powers at Washington and
til" voters, 30 nothing radical all the
wage carnrrs and farmers will trade al
most altogether with great combinations
Of capital and the small business man
VIII be forced into the ranks of the wage
earners and farmers to compete with them
for employment and to struggle with
them to sell at ever less prices the pro.
ducts of their toll on the land
President Wilson can stick to the trn-
5 ing program which the Democratic party
l has declared for and thus practically do
: nothing for the solution of the great is,
l sues before the workers. He can become
' a - stand pat friend of the Wall street
? interests and seek by repression of pro
? ducers to make more favorable the posi-
| ton OF the employing class, ever grow
q ing fewer in numbers. He can adopt {
q program looking to taking over by the
; government of enough activities to keeI
p the otherwise unemployed at work aE
q such tasks a. making Ievees for the Mis-
Sissippj and public military roads an,
/ canals, and other work which will civ.
, the people full return for the money in
A vested, and can add to this the acquire
+ ment of enough Of the means of produc
, ton AMI distribution to relieve the people
Q from the burdens of the great combna
I tonS. If he - stands pat after tinker
g ing with the tariff or attempts to repres
$ flee in four years and Mr.. Roosevelt, o
+ some similar man, will be elected by
It tremendous vote. If the president fol
k lowing Mr.. Wilson in Office shall merel
II u INV NitH t'iN ithi lipbitiHn Win III
n real relief from the troubles of the farm
II ers and wage-earners, all Of whom ough
is to he able to keep the wives and daugh
c ters comfortably at home and educat
): their children at the best schools, the
i the age of Socialism, forsoen by Herbe,
Spencer, viii be 50 near there will be bu
is two parties, the one made of the Unite
L Republican, Democrat and Pr0gressiy
.c forces, the other wonderfully organize
i, Socialist party. President Wilson h
=, reason to say he is thinking of matter
e. more important than mere cabinet maj
i. ing. The future Of this country is !
IF the hands of his party, his party has fu
m power and opportunity and must a:ceI
IL full responsibility. The public shoul
G. watch with intelligent interest the move