The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-04
MUST COOPERATE
In Modern Society the Producing Ele-
ments Are I~nseparabIy Linked
Together and Cannot Thrive
Otherwise. s7

duction of the basic life necessities,
food, clothing, etc.
The natural economic system is di-
vided into but two parts. First, that
section through which society gathers
the raw materials, such as the prod
ucts of the farms, fisheries, forests
and mines, necessary to it's existence;
and, second, that section which turns
the raw materials into finished prod
ucts and distributes them, in the form
of commodities, to users, in which Sec
ton come the workers in the factories,
Offices, banks and on the railroads
and ships.
This being true, it becomes clear to
all thinking people that, in modern
society, - ~' 1=see-- e ho fs=asezs
and aSztesltul vu1~ = sbselutely
bound up with the welfare Of the in
dustrial and distributive workers. AS
one class suffers or prospers, so will
the other.
Prices Fall With Wages.
As wages and salaries are driven
to and below the cost of existence, the
prices of farm products will newt
ably follow to the same point-the
point of mere subsistence income-the
point where the free worker becomes
a peon and the free farmer a tenant.
This Is true because you farmers can
not take out Of a market more than
is paid into it as wages and salaries.
If this contention is incorrect, then
how can one explain the fact that, c
cording to all census figures, the aver
age annual income of the farmers of
the United States about equal the
average annual income of the indus
trial workers? 49,.
There is no explanation for this fact
other than has been shown, viz: You
cannot take out of a market more than
is paid into it in wages. Hence it
follows as the night the day, that as
the standard of living falls for the
workers in the great basic industries,
the standard of living will also fall
on the farms. There is no escape
from this iron law, the ignoring of
which has strewn and is still strewing
the continents with the ruins of en-
pires. 49,. Il
Far from the real interests Of the
farmers being a~ntagonistic to the
workers in the industries, and vice
versa, as the Economists" (?) of the
%plutocracy contend, the interests of
these two great natural subdivisions
of society are, in reality, as one, for
they are to each other reciprocal
kets and, so, are bound together for
good or ill, for life and death.
Gamblers to Blame.
1t is the gamblers And p~rofiteers
who, having insinuated themselves be-
tween these two great productive
classes, and two take toll first off one
and then the other-it is these para
sites who, by control of the press and
all other avenues Of publicity and
education, keep the. producers apart
and poor. Desperately, now IS in the
times of old, the kept classes strive to
"divide and conquer, for we'll they
know that once the producing classes
recognize this truth, that, by the iron
law of nature, the great, great major
ity of men and women must, now and
always labor for their living: then, in
that hour Of recognition of truth, the
producing classes will come together
in one, mighty economic organization,
having for it's motto the commandment
of the Apostle Paul: IF a man will
not work, neither shall he eat" Il
This fear, the unity C ~ indus,
5ria. ana agricultural protective
classes, is what is haunting the plu-
tocracy and it's intellectual and polit-
ical hirelings in these United States
today, for they know that once the
producers awaken to the truth that
you cannot take more out Of a market
than is paid into it, the end OF eco
nomic kaiserism Is at hand.
New York.-A cooperative cigar
factory which will sell its products BY
mail order to union customers has
just been opened here under the direc-
ton Of the Union Cigar Makers Co
operative society OF New York. The
venture has been Incorporated for
$4,000, and will have a capacity for
80 workers, whoE4wM be chosen by lot
from among the members Of the 80
ciety. all Of whom are union members.
Man Is continually saying y
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