The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-08

But returning to the normal man who has no desire to escape his duty, and who is willing to replace by production the stuff which he takes for consumption what is his relation to these two conditions? The fomentors Of labor strife say that he should be a Dull" when it is question of how much he shall be paid fer production, and bear when it is a question ef what he shall pay for what he consumes. In other words, make the loaf of bread cost more to bake, but sell it for less because the man who was highly paid for baking it will presently come around the front door and buy for his family.
 This of course, would be very favora bIe arrangement for the baker, if it could be kept up; but unfortunately for that dream 5there is an inviolab ble relation between the cost of consump- ton and the cost of production; even in the physical body, when repair and replacement cease to equal waste and use, old age comes and death is not far Decrepitude and collapse come to business from the same cause.
 There is, doubtless, a differ ence in the interests of the indi- vidual as Producer and that same individual as Consumer, but the difference merges into the same interest at last, namely, to gain enough as Producer to meet the demands made upon him as Consumer.
 Some would-he guides talk as if all this could be easily ar ranged if the Producer took what he produced and let it so at that. The matter Is comp1i- cated by another class which comes into existance between the production snd the consump- ton. The producer is not buy ing of himself as producer, but of someone else who has &C., quired his product. This grves room for a mixture of motives to get as much as he can as pro- ducer and give as little as he can as consumer.
 This double attitude is assisted by the mans belief that he is dealing with two sets of per sons whose interests seem op- posed to his-his employer, who he thinks is trying to get out of him more labor than the wage is worth; and the merchant or trader, who he thinks is trying to get out of him more money than the article is worth
 The man doesn't see that banish human greed from the equation-he is dealing only with himself after all, and that if he robs commodities at one end of the process, they rob him at the other; and so equality is estab- lished, though in very unsatis- factory sort of way.
 Now, there are advisors who insist that the wax out of this condition is for the Producer Consumer to add to his "class membership" and become Trad CT, too. For that is all that the abolition of the commercial class could mean. But as very few man could subs:st on the comm odity wI-ieh they produce Cine comm ndity uslally being cniy a part in some larger pro- ceas of p~aGuctier}. and would have to s:op DrooE1c;1g =. order to JIas.Tviz tlsei1- Dro&uc1 in the n7srEat ant. es,:.2 the whe:swithal to proc,2re q solra;stan .e. the pro- cess might ep5 practically in the same place as the present one does--but probably 1t would end in a much lower degree of efficiency and in 6 much lower state of general comfort.
 In our capacity as workers we are interested in just rates of reward; in our capacity as con- sumers we are interested in just rates of exchange; in our public canacitv we are intarested in the