Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-18
TNEMPLOYEO And .UEEMPlOYABlE'

There is no particular need 10 get excited
over the news from Sacramento Yesterday that
The "aI1ny Of the unemployed" is plotting To
mobilize in Chicago, seize the Rock Island arse
bal, take contnlandecred trains to Washington
and start a real revolution
The plan Was evolved in the fevered brain of
<ome half-crazed outcast, talked over with his
comrades in rags, and to their unbalanced mem
Utilities it undoubtedly seemed feasible But
coInmoll-sense brands il as merely foolish The
tate of mind OF the average .hobo" and "bum'
Nllo gets together With his kind easily leads to
Mild visions, particularly when the gathering of
ramps is lelyened by anarchists and certain
types of Socialists These usually the leading
kpitits-furnisl the needed mental stimulus to
arouse the outeast often TO desperate measures.
The recent occurrences in San Francisco and
tacramento show the effects of few vehement
leaders upon a tattered mob of unemployed
men
In the great majority of cases, the man out Of
work for any length of time, particularly in the
western states, is the man who doesn't want to
work except at his own terms The Wall Street
Journal recently put the situation epigrammati-
tally when it said, "The problem of the idle
worker, in fact, is not SO much the unemployed
las the unemployable" The Journals view of it
5 So well stated and so widely applicable that
further quotation is deserved.
Out of the many thousands of idle men in New
York only handful consented to shovel snow
and the newspaper reports stated that on Monday
even these quit, and declined>t work in the
storm What would the thousands Of tele graph and
telephone linemen, working day and night restore
communications snatching brief intervals of sleep
from their arduous labor say this2 The who
quit and the who refused such employment
were the volunteers in the army of the unemployed
No one who has had the handling of can have
failed to notice how greatly the individual failure
has only himself to blame Eliminating the great
cause OF intempefance, there other reasons just
as vital Lack of the power of concentration.
OF application, inability to foresee the ultimate
ket value of character and trustworthiness beyond
present humble employment and small reward-a
these go to make that class which lies down under
the first reverse.
II is class which has notably failed to secure
the sympathy of the steady workman. To
EXPRESSIVE cofoquialism, the red-blooded American
desuises gutter. 1t is this class which holds up
church congregations for doles. II is this class
which is willing for any work except that offered
or which refuses the work Offered except a
OF wages knows to be impossible. This is the soil
in which the seeds of anarchy are sown. 1t is TO
these that the paid agtators preach of rights while
they ignore duties 1t is these who think that their
Fellows must keep them in comfort while they
nothing in return, contribute surplus of useful
production the common capital.
LET any man ask himself how often has he
<sa,lv industrious workmen employment
any length time. except by their own choice in
labor dispute? The man who wants work can get it.
and can soon establish character that will get
him better work