The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
DR.. MANNING'S EXHIBIT ON
WHY THE PEOPLE ARE
HUNGRY"
People Are Poor Because They
Don't Go Without What They
Need, Says Lecturer
Superintendent Wealth Production l,
for Benefit Of Employing Class
Only According to Econ
omist" Manning

oHe ol the pOlueSl eAHlDltS VI DOul-
geois clap-trap, masquerading under
the guise of friendly advice to wage
ligent public last week from the stage
of the High school auditorium. Such
perversions of simple truisms, twist
ings and contortions of facts and allu-
sions, to suit the lecturers economic
interests as profit-monger! Such
toPsy-turyy reasoning CD and absurd
paradoXes! We have the lecture, as
reported by the daily papers, placed on
fileo and marked exhibit "a"
People are hungry, declared DR..
Manning, not because of what they
don't get, but because of what they
spend!u aoI"ob la1il ]o h9joiY0oo 3IaH
Gold type will never be able to con-
vey any idea of the grim, hard, sell
fish. brutal complacency of the lee
turer's point of view. One must need
come into the physical presence of
such personality before the male
violence of his sugar-eoatedl doctrine
of abstinence and low-living could be
fully appreciated, 7lpIH1WYI '0B
You workers. whose unpaid labor is
crystaliZed in the billions of dollars
of capital held by the owning class
of this country, read this gem from
Dr. Manningls leeture:d) ygo3dj cd.
.l6tWe hear much that manual labor
does, not get it's share ofathe products
fllabor,i lsit not truce that Everett
labor Is paid more than ii produces
our plumbers, carpenters, masons
and .so.oalied s1tcommonj aIaborers
Considering the quality and quantity
of their product, aare, they not paid
more, than their services are worth ~
That Bank Account mlIoJqq
DR.. Manning is at least uncompli-
nehtary to his own CLASS when he
tells them they are paying more for
laborlpower than they realize from its
use but then, there's that bank ac-
codnt to offset the doctors Slam. '-'''
One must needs have heard-under-
standingy 80 the "hard-headed bust
ness" philosophy of this candid re-
vealer Of capitalist class philosophy to
appreciate the sinister Wish and de-
sign of the speaker Were this same
scholarly" gentleman to have his
way; had he the power to carry out
his evil will toward the working class,
it would not be long before American
wage carriers would be reduced to the
low level Of the moujiks Of Russia,
the coolies of the Orient, or the des-
poiled poems OF ravished Mexico. .a'"
But let the benevolent gentleman
speak for himself; he asks: ''''. '"'
$40 wages make any difference :?
If your wages were doubled now,
would you not spend II all? A single
man getting $3.50 a day, If he spends
it all, is In better position than II he
earns 81 a day and spends 1t all. The
$3.50 Will supply all his necessary
wants and comforts, and he cannot
spend the larger sum Without extrav-
aeance, intemperance and waste" VIZ
Do Wages Make Any Difference
There you have his hope and his
prayer, fellow wage-slayes: the reduc-
ing of American wages to the $3.50
a day. standard, or less. "The $3.50
viii supply, all his necessary wants
and comforts" as a work animal, or
mere wage slave, And we can't all
save our earnings" and become capt.
talists, or there would be no wage
slaves left to exploit with our capital.
The friendly" doctor seems to be
blissfully ignorant of the fact that
every dollar Of wages not spent by the
working class means that much less
demand for workers to produce more
commodities; means closed factories,
discharged clerks, a general tendency
toward an. industrial crisis Nm ..u.l.
AS we can't all be owners, of our
means of wealth production without
destroying the sources from which pro-
fits-another word for unpaid labor