Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-09-06
WHAT LINCOLN SAID.

WHAT LINCOLN SAID.
"The prudent penniess beginner in the world abors
for wages while saves surplus with which to buy his
tools land for himself then abors on his own account
another WHILE and at length hires another beginner TO
help him This is the just and generous and prosperous
system which opens the way to ALL gives hopes to all and
consequently energy and progress and Improvement OF
condition to ALL No men living are more worthy than
those who toll up from poverty less inclined TO take
or touch aught which they have not honestly earned
Thus Lincoln declared the honor of labor, and the
wisdom of the plan that gives all fair start and the
prudent and thrifty the opportunity to give work to the
others by establishing themselves as employers VINO nap
pen to be essential to industry as the employed
Nowadays hear good deal of loose talk about
the Non-Partsan League of Wall Street, and all that 10
people of crooked mental slant everything that on
their offices in al Street or near there hold the
nomc destiny of the people in the remotest OF the
United States in the hollow of their hands.
When the elder Morgan died, according to The Ma
TONS Business he owned but share of stock IN the
Steel Corporation Yet there thousands of people who
still believe that 2 Morgan absolutely controlled it.
We have recently learned how comparatively small
an interest John D. Rockefeller personifes absolute die
tatorshp of that great company with all its affiliations
indeed of the entire oil trade with all its
There are about 10 62502 persons in the United
States-say 250OOO00 families. The latest estimate OF
our gross wealth is about O0O and our in
come is placed at about 500 8O0,OOO,OOO
Over ten and half million homes are owned IN the
Unied States OF these 6522119 owned free of in
cumbrance.
There are G, 1866 farms owned in country, Of
which 3925095 run by the owners the balance ex
cept 68,525, being managed by tenants. These farms
only $4003,767,192
No one can seriously pretend that either the home
the farmers can be controlled by any
trust whether from "Wa Street or any other place.
Machinery reach and control them exists only in the
imagination of those who seek to set class against class
and to profit personally and politically by the resulting
bad feeing-EX.
We note by the last issue of the Washburn News
that have incurred the dlspeasure of it's owner Con-
gresham Peavey by recent quotation OF report OF the
u S. Steel Corporation in which the scale OF city
brckayers given at S18 per day. Mr.. Peavey says
that it was vicious propaganda issued in the attempt
nare the WOrngman, and that instead OF the scale be-
ing $18 during the year 1922 that it $l2
$40 per day Judging from the numerous publications
of various city scales applied to both skilled and
unskiled labor for number of years past nclin
ed to take the figures named in the report approx
matey correct regardless of whether Mr. Peavey does
not.
Last year we voted for and to that extent helped to
elect him congressman of this district believing that
he had been grossly magned and msrepresented by his
political opponents. At that time not SO well
of his radical views the labor question
and be frank about it. do not agree with his at
tude that the employer invariably seeking to defraud
and ensave his Workmen. Being neWspaperman himself
he knows very well that not connected with the
captains of finance in any way but merely of the
thousands of small businessmen who find the struggle of
life quite acute any who works for weekly or
monthly pay with great deal more uncertainty about
their payday than the mill or factory worker.
Having always been in the working class, know
quite well what constitutes the main of the
age American workingmans deporable condition. if it is
deplorabe It is not that he does not make enough but
instead that he does not enough At time OF life
have intention of quitting the freeSpending hab
it's of years for the perhaps envabe condition of
of wealth. We not however, accusing anyone of
having nterfered with financial progress the least
and there plenty of instances every community to
show that that kind of lies largely with the in
vidua and will continue to- whether he is laying brick
S18 per day or Sc per day.