Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1912-04-10
From Sundays Daily

,r,mbcl oi the Socialist Lyceum
,,,wre course, delivered her ad-
,,,,,. las, night to an audience that
,,,ed The capacity OF the New State
,heatcr She is a forceable speaker,
and in addition to her regular talk
On national issues, she made her
,,,opgcst and most imprisoned APP
neal 10 the men, in the audience TO
,nooof, the movement for the grant
mo Of suffrage to the women Of the
n,v state OF Arizona. Her appeal
vas ON non-partisan basis. saying
ma, the right of woman TO the bal
10, i, above party politics and a
matter that deserves settlement in
non.partisan spirit. as the women
If the state may have political lean
,ng, as varied as men, but that
.hould no, hinder them from having
heir inherent rights granted 10 them.
Below are some extracts from
her lecture. which were well re-
ctiyed by the audience:
We shall be in a better position
10 arrive At sane conclusion re
gardlng the trusts, il we briefly
snalyle the factors of which the
ruu is composed.
The modern machinery OF pro
duciion and distribution is the chief
material basis OF the trust. What
has been the greatest single efec,
Of the machine upon the labor OF
man, Undoubtedly. to mako labor
more productive. Compare the mod
cn ,hreshing machine with the fail
Compare the steam shovel with the
hand shovel Compare the railroad
with the stage coach. The machine
increases our power to produce. Sc
far the machine is good thing.
Other factors to be considered
are the owners Of the machines
the organization formed to operate
ihe machines with the greatest econ
omy-,o the greatest advantage &c
themselves.
Carnegie has expressed himsel
a. holding the organization to be q
greater value than is the materia
property which il manages.
Then there is the great body o
labor dependent upon the machine
and the land controlled by thu
trusts. They must use machine
which they do not own. They arr
attachments to the machine. TIL
simple hand tool. the shovel, was al
attachment to the man. But il out
grew him. IL became the rea
power in production. When steam
power was applied to the shove
the man became an attachment &
II The tail began to wag the do
IN good earnest The trust too
control OF the tail, that is the ma
chine, and it "wagged" the dog
that is il worked the man. only whe
" paid to do so.
III is cheaper to use machine
than men in production. Machine
do not demand wages. Therefor
the trust put the machine on tn
JOB The man lost his wages. II
lost his power to buy. He coul
produce abundantly but. alas. he ha
nothing with which to buy his pre-
duct He was not permitted TO pre-
duce. He had the power but M
The permission. He began to starN
nom oyer-production. The worl
began To starve--of It's plenty. IL
power To produce had increase
MS power to consume had decrease
That is the trust problem.
Now Mr. Roosevelt, Mr.. Cur
mln'' Mr. La Toilette, Mr.. Brya
and all other trust busters poi
out the fact that the trust, big bus
ness, underselIs the small busine
man and thus destroys him. II
nus, destroys competition. they Il
U.s. and that is very bad. We a
therefore advised TO bust the trust
70 break up the organization whi'
grouped around modern MACH
cry Tor the purpose of getting o
Of that machinery the greatest
'ol' with the least possible expen'
tufe.
Well and good. The worke
"ok hammers to break up
printing presses at first. They sa
we presses took their jobs aw
nom them. They regarded the m
'o'he as their enemy, whereas
was private control OF the MACH
that hurt them.