The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-15

even VIC - tmsg.1a will have to pay
| for the pseudo economic theories
preached by the college professors
and theorists who have no real know
ledge of the fundamental factors of
social and political economy. If those
without practical knowledge of such
matters would leave the industrial
employers and employees alone there
would be less unrest and less blood
shed. They lecture the employer not
realizing that if the employer gave
all his profits TO labor, il would not
appreciably affect the workmen's in
come. They entirely ignore the fact
that in the end the consumer pays
any increased cost of production and
that in the main the workman is the
consumer. | have always felt that
the man who works with his hands
does not receive his full share of the
combined products of labor, capital
and enterprise. But, | believe that
nobody yet has brought forward a
scheme for social structure which
will afford for the working man a
greater enjoyment of the good things
of life than our present social and in
dustrial system. During recent years
organized industrial worknlen have
enjoyed more than formerly but that
has resulted in increasing cost of
manufactured articles which he con-
sumes and also the cost of the pro-
ducts of the soil which have become
more expensive because the good pay
and conditions in factories draw
workers away from the farms, thus
decreasing the possible volume of ag-
ricultural products. No matter how
we may fix up broad artificial plan
for increasing the industrial workers
compensation. the fact that he is de-
pendent on capital and the entire
preneur for chance to work at all,
and the further fact that he is the
principal consumer in the long run,
when we put it into practice, we Will
find that he is no better off in the
end than he would have been under
normal competitive labor conditions.
OF course one class of labor may
benefit by artificial raise of wages,
but in that case it is principally at the
expense of other classes of workers.
| believe the workmen themselves UNI
derstand this better than the employ
ers. They appreciate, and many of
them state frankly, that it is race
between the various crafts TO see
which can boost their wages the fast
est. They also now realize. as never
before, especially in England, that
workers in some countries have in the
past by restriction of output, put
themselves out of employment in
stead of making employment for al
greater number of toilers, due to the
inability OF the employer to compete
with manufacturers of other coun-
tries in producing articles the cost OF
which is principally labor.
The workman is not wholly tol
blame for the present industrial un-
rest. There are some stand pat" EN-
ployers. There is about as much
fault on one side as on the other, and
there always will be friction. Some
employers in some industries cannot
afford the liberal treatment of EN- :
ployees which others easily practice. !
The employees in some countries can
never experience the prosperity
which those in other countries enjoy
because of the difference in natural i
resources and captains of industry
and commerce.
Agitation and revolution will ac-l
nothing in the way of reliev-
ing those disadvantageously situated /
If they would emigrate and pioneer
places on the earth suitable for white .
people, they would accomplish some
thing for the general benefit of man
kind. The hardy and brave people .
who pioneered America did thous
and times more for mankind that did
both the French Revolutions. The
course which revolutions run usually,
is a beginning consistin" Of The intro
duction Of moderate measures put 4
forth by theorists for the benefit of
the poor and which in practice leave 4
the poor worse off than before. The
next step is something more radical
and the revolution proceeds through
successive steps, each more radical