The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-28
dr. MANN|NG'S GOSPEL OF ABSTINENCE AS A SOLUTION
OF THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY
Everett Workers Are Paid More Wages Than the Value Their Products
Says Local Philosopher

more tnan the $l.b0 Necessary to sup.
My AL bis necessary ants and com.
forts"g Why should t8s capitalist not
become more so, through appropriat.
ing the workers proaacts in larger
chunks per diem? II sne wage slave
can exist on $3.50 dyy. why let him
have $500 a day out IL his own pro
ducts? Why should nit DR.. Manning,
and his fellow exploitArs, appropriate
for themselves all OF Che products of
the workers. and just and them back
enough to supply then with the nee
essary stalls, hay, andsoats?
Is not wage slave who is allowed
$3.50 out Of the $1,000 day he pro.
duces happier with $1.50's worth OF
food, clothing, shelter books, music,
dental and doctors ser lice, recreation.
travel, helping friesA out of work,
supporting aged parents. than one who
has 81 day to meet siese expenses
Sure, argues the gooq doctor. Why
seek to enjoy the goos things OF life
as you earn them, Wheel by going with.
cut them you can--so sac learned doc
tor says,-some day ecome an en-
ployer yourself and haze a good time
on the other fellows sheat. Says he.
seIf-Denisi
"A man likes his cisar. the attrac-
tons of the theatre, hsating and fish
ing and sports. His wife wants a new
dress, or a hat, or boil. and picture
of baby. and suggests hat baby's pic
ture would be better v,sre baby cloth
ed in new and more ,stly garments.
The thoughtful man So $ No. To cb-
tain that which he mu nay for these
xs.ss, ssss-
ergy-both are gone forever. The
cigar does him no good, Ind may do
him harm. The pleasures of the sa-
loon are animal rather than of the soul
and degrade him. He remembers that
baby will grow up, and will need edu-
cation; he knows that the dollar in
vested in the pictures of baby wanted
by his wife, saved now, will be SO at
the time of baby's greatest need. and
without effort on his part, the dollar
working, at honest work, while he
sleeps. and multiplying not by magic
but by its intrinsic WORTH"
Dollars Work the Worker
How can a dollar work, "at honest
work, while (its owner sleeps?
The Socialist objects to this kind of
magic" He knows that the kind Of
intrinsic worth" the doctor imputes
to the dollar is it's quality of being
able to work the worker by owning
his means of living. This is how the
dollar invested is multiplied while the
said owner Sleeps"
Why Let the Dollar "Work"?
Now if DR.. Manning is SO rhapsodi-
cally in love with work; il "construc-
tive work" is mans best friend; il as
the labor loving doctor says
"ChiIdren should oe introduced to
work at an early and tender age and
II possible taught to love it, and In a
few generations mankind will see the
revolutionizing OF the world"
If this is true, why, then, should
our apostle of hard work want to LEI
the dollar do the work while he sleeps :?
Why not do the loved work himself?
Especially when $15O day will be
sufficient for the needs and comforts
of the doctor Family? Put the chill
dren to work "at an early and tender
age" No, the doctor would let the
dollar work while he sleeps.
DOLLARS DON'T BREED
DR. Manning knows well enough
that the only way money can be made
to multiply itself, while the owner
thereof sleeps, is by using it to work
the worker! It's own intrinsic value
value. Money does not multiply IT,
self by its intrinsic worth" Money
can't breed unless there are wage
workers to be bled, exploited. A bar
rel of 500 gold pieces placed in the
sub-cellar for ages would not breed,
would not be honestly earning for
you" while you sleep. No. Money
learns" only when it is used to en-
ploy man to produce wealth for
which he is not paid Money becomes
capital" only when it is used to buy
and own that which some one else
must use in order to make a living.
And when it is so employed, it is de-
signed that the worker, the wage
slave, shall be forced, on the average,