The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-05-07
A SLOW PUSH is BETTER
THAN A SWIFT KICK

In the first place the price of a
thing is not more nor less than what
ever we are willing to do without for
that thing. In the days of barbar-
ism it took about all mans time
to provide food for himself and fam
lily. We have developed system of
life wherein we have wide choice
of returns for what we earn. We
use many things we do not need and
thereby furnish living for persons
who produce them. These persons
have now gotten the false impression
because we have been willing to pay
a good price for their products that
they are producers of essentials.
They use the economic hammer of
the strike to get more pay and wiring
from us higher prices. When we
who produce essentials, farmers, for
instance, find ourselves paying high
er and higher prices for the luxuries
we have grown to like we simply
raise the price of our product and the
rest of the world pays higher prices
for the essentials.
The American Exchange National
bank of New York declares that no
time was ever better than the pres
ent to teach a lesson in sound eco
nomics to the minority of workers,
parasites producing nonessentials.
After stating that the working
class theory is Chased on the assump-
ton that the converters of raw ma
terials and others engaged in manual
labor are producers, and upon the
wholly false assumption that most
of them are engaged in essential
occupations, the bulletin presents
this workable theory:
Really essential Industries are
in need of more workers than they
can get; so, if the great consuming
classes of the country were to sud
denly stop consuming everything but
the bare necessities, the incidental
displacement of labor would open
many eyes to the fact that all the
parasites upon the body polite do
not live on the main streets of the
cities. We, all of us, live luxuri-
ously compared to the hard lives of
our forefathers, and little self
denial would do us all good. A null
titude of things are done for us
that we could do for ourselves. ~
= If we got down to brass
lacks and made up our minds to do
without everything that is not essen
tial, great change would come
over the face of things and We should
be doing the people in Europe who
lack the bare necessities of life a
great service. But, most of all, we
would administer salutary lesson
in economics which would go far to
obliterate the preconception upon
which the preachers of proletarian-
ism have founded their doctrines"
Here is the weapon to knock down
Bolshevism with. When all men
get back to where they have to pro-
duce some sensible, worthwhile ar
ticle or service for the benefit of
others there will be less tal5 If the
"downtrodden Masses A little
taste of easy money has made lot
of folks in America downright wild.
When a man is honestly engaged in
some useful service for mankind he
has no time for radical complaints.
He has less leisure for eating out
hic heart baraucp he cannot have
the moon.
All the men of this world are di-
vided up according to their talents
for adding to the worlds wealth,
and in order to dwell together in
peace we have got to be satisfied to
do our little share, draw our pay for
it, and let the other fellow have his
place in the sun if he can win it.