The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

| carving editor suggest that thev
voluntarily take smaller profits 50 a.
to decrease the cost Of productionf
Do they ever suggest that the board
OF trade gamblers reduce their charges
for "handling" the grain so "a to 70.
duce the cost Of productioni Did Won
ever hear them demand that the
bankers, who take the people s money
at from nothing to 8 and 4 per cent
and lend it back to business men at
q, 8 or 10 per cent, should take q
smaller toll and thus reduce the cost
fof productions Did you ever hear
|! them suggest that the hundreds Of
thousands of idle grafters and bundle
| carriers for criminal Big business. IN.
eluding horde Of scribbling prosti.
tutes for the "kept' press, should
90 to work and produce something
really Of use and benefit to the peopls
a"d thus reduce the cost of produc-
tions
Did you ever hear them demand
that the ever increasing army OF
'experts' who live by their wits and
produce nothing Of value should be
compelled to 60 to work and thus re
duce the cost Of productionf
Did YOU ever hear them suggest, for
example, that the Duluth school board,
instead of creating fancy jobs at
$500 per, thus" adding to. the cost Of
nrndn"tion. should cut ont the useless
snpervisors Of plaverounds, and such.
thus compelling them to 90 to work
'nd help reduce the cost of produc-
| tion?
Did Won ever know them to saw that
the multitnde of political grafters ana
| office holders who do nothing but
draw their nav and TINS add to the
cost of production should be eempelled
TO go to work and thus reduce the
cost of productions
Did you ever hear them suggest that
the men who have been presented
with the people's heritage-the coal.
The oil, the ore and all the other min.
erals under ground by a sillv govern
ment and who do nothing but draw
Fat ROYALTIES and TINS add to the cost
IF nroduction should give up these
"ovalties in order that the cost Of pro-
duction might be reduceds
Did you ever hear them suggest
that the thousands Of pirates who deal
1T wholesale and on commission with
The peon1e's necessities and take the
most unjust profits be eliminated and
thus reduce the cost of productions
Did YOU ever hear them suggest that
the salarv of $50,000 superintendent
or million dollar general manager.
who could not actually earn that much
in lifetime, should be cut down to
reasonable figures so as to reduce the
cost Of productions
Did Won ever hear them suggest that
much Of the money, If not the greater
norton, that is paid to the servile
bundle-carrving press for advertising
is pure graft and should be cut out
in order to decrease the cost Of pro-
ductionf
No, and You never will. These
blind leaders Of the blind are paid to
tell the public that the men who do
the actual work of the world are
solely to blame for the high cost Of
living and they repeat the vicious
falsehood Ger and o'er to the end of
time. ,,
There are inst two remedies for the
present condition Of affairs. One is TO
abolish ail taxes except the income
tax and take away from every man
all but fsir return for his actual
services to society. The other Is for
the government. to own and operate
every natural monopoly and every
other MONOPOLY without profits and
solely for the peoples benefit under
the control and direction Of the men
who do the work. with every able.
bodied man compelled to DO something
useful and servieeable for mankind or
starve.
The time is coming in this world
when human energy will no longer be
a chattel, when it will be "illegal,'
as well as mineral for Gle man to
steal or Inappropriate the products
Of another mans toll and when every
physically able man will be com
Delled to DO something useful or get
nothing. z..-.. =
For Honest John Tompkins, the
hedger and ditcher,
When he comes from the we'll VIII
keep all's in his pitcher.
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