Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-08-15
WORKING AT CROSS PURPOSES.

TO make believe that every thing
Is all right and that everybody
should be perfectly happy and con
tented. l note q cartoon in the
Boise Statesmen not long since in
! which Idaho .s representen 2s wo
man being talked to deata by a
political agitator while "Mr. Prosper
fly" is standing at the outer door
OF tho ladies' room with q big bou'
quette, knocking vigorously TO be ad-
mitted, the political ozitator mas
the floor and 5lr. Prosperity has
TO wait No doubt the author Of
ttst pleasant fiction thought hs was
getting up something rather cute.
but IN tho light Of the cold pickLsd
fncts Il looks decidedly silly.
1t L. impossible Tor man to tnuan
on the base Imagination of feazt
and It is the merest folly TO try TO
wheedle ourselves into the belief Of
thing that exists only IN the ina
gination OF the follows who want TO
continue the present order of Unjust
ice and inequality.
All sorts OF SPECIFIES are presented
for he cure OF the Ills We bear and
all sorts OF committees and eoHmis~
si0ns for the investigation OF the
ceuses OF our troubles are appoiEed
With power TO spend the peoples
money to find out something that
is perfectly plain to everybody but
the fellows who are profiting by
tooling the people.
With ten or twelve million peo-
pie in this glorious Lard Of equal
opportunity on the verge Of starTa-
ton and as many more close up
TO the bread line il looks like Ar.
Prosperity should be distributing
loaves Of bread instead OF bouquettes.
Everybody everywhere is COM
pleining of hard times and 10
money. Only Just recently heard
an Ice man say that never before
had his business been affected just
as it is now People who formerly
we're good customers could not buy
ice because they had no money. Pro-
duce that in oriirary times should
bring good returns is q drug on the
market for the same reason that pee
pie do not buy ice. Labor strikes
are almost universal all over the
oountry, and tramDs are as plenu-
tul - mosquitoes.
II the people who suffer from tie
effects o. these conditions raise a
voice in protest they are denounced
as political ssitators, much rakers,
and undesirable citizens" in the es-
umation OF the exploitors who, Ike
vultures, fatten on other peoples
misfortunes.
We are told that this Is tho richest
nation on earth and consequently
the most prosperous. The percapitar
wealth is greater here than any
where on earth and TO get the
"percapitar" they take John D. Rock
feller with 5000, 200, 900 as one
and como Mutt with shout SO es an
other. and In striking an average With
John d. with his billion on one side
and fifteen or twenty millions Of
Nuts on the ether with their SO
each the general average looks pretty
good for even a prosperous country
Ike this, but when YOU figure out
that one per cent. OF the people
own per cent more than tho other
90 per cent. and when you consider
that there are yearly 100000 rented
homes and over 1000 900 mortsaged
at against less than 5000 900 free
homes. and that the Average working
man in this country gets only lit
tie over $500 a year for his labor
and with the cost OF living in
creasing more than twice as fast as
the increase In wages together with
q whole lot mora OF such damaging
facts it will begin to dawn on the
average mind that "Mr. Prosperity
Is out OF his element in trying TO
fool old maids with mortgages. What
is being done to keep down discon-
tent? While nearly all the states
are sending demonstration trains over
the country TO show the farmer
how to double the production of their
farms but never giving the slight
cst pointer of how to dispose OF what
they now produce and doubling the
production under present conditions
mean cutting tho price in two, and
all know that prevailing prices are
low enough especially when we have
to give four fifths of it TO railroads
cypress companies, and commission
men to get Il to market. Some peo-
pie give the railroads Sreat credit
for having these demonstration trains
over the country free OF charge, but
what the producers want more than
production is a demonstr-
alton train showing us how to get to
q market with our present produc-