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m ...'"It iiimwii Mm. n "F" fM. t ? ; ft ft JANUARY 15, 1903. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT, 15 EMPLOY THE UNEMPLOYED -I, ' H i Mr. Glbtan Draws on Bit Imagination for Statisticf, but Makes 8om 6of- ; gutless Worth Sin Editor Independent: J. C. Harkness takes the right stand, and I advise every populist including The Inde pendent to join socialism. There is no danger that anything advocated by the socialists will do any harm, but vl on experience part of it should, whv can't the people correct it by the initiative and leferendum at the drop of a hat? In, practice municipal own ership of gas, water, electric light, street railways, did not prove profit able tc the people living in those cit ies except they owned their own homes and business locations, because th? landlord charged more rent to offset all saved, and . more. So :t would he in the country if the govern ment built one or more railroads and transported at cost: The land there would rise in price, so the landless would lose and taxes would rise to offset all saved. All know that on an average the consumer pays $5 for what the laborer (producer) obtains $1 for . producing, including transportation labor cost The producer and consumer is the market as far as ll.in $5; for the $4 the trusts hayjL to seek a market in the Philippine darkest Africa, or hammer at the gates of Pekin, China, or now and then get up a rattling war, etc But that market will come to an end when it runs short of cash. This wil! create an unemployed problem, "worse than heard of before. Then nave been 'during these prosperous years millions out of employment: cer-. tain parts lacked laborers in harvest, etc., for a couple of months, but it cost more to pay railroad fare than wages amounted to,' and beating the way has become a life and death fight on thf railroads. There are millions of ca bins on the south and west coasts and on unsurveyable government land's where dwells the old tramp'ad lives on six bushels of wheat ground in I; graham flour on a big coffee mill. Game, fish and a patch of potatoes and vegetables. Long before the socialists get into power the government will have to employ all the unemployed and ail that want to work for the government making houses,' food and goods of all kinds that the unemployed laborer wants for comfort; and divide wha: they have produced in wages according to the amount of labor done by each; the government - using the best ma chines, steam plows, etc., machines made by the laborer. The government has sub-arid prairie enough to feel 150 million people; 40 million acres pine timber outside Alaska; 300 mi! lion acres pine timber in Alaska; mil lions of acres coal and iron lands. Tho government has already started irri gation works. The government does not need the farmers' worn out weed farms (nor do the socialists) and don't want them. So the farmers and trusts can go on and do business as they do now, The government will then employ as fast as tbey can all laborers, median ics, farm hands, farm renters, small mortgaged farmers, because ail those will get twice as much pay for lesa work in goods; goods are all we want in the end. All honor to Bellamy's ideas, Carl Marx's, all socialists platforms, etc. But here is where the practical social ists have to start, and probably be fore the government is in the social ists' hands; that is, employ the unem ployed. The government would of course have to build some railroads to transport the goods and accommodate those it employed. With those people, style in shoes, clothing, etc., would not matter; any style would be bet ter than bare-footed, etc. We shall demand immediately that the government does not give any more land in 160 acre lots, but keep it themselves and farm it for the unem ployed with good steam plows because then twenty times more people can get plenty to eat from the same area. We shall demand immediately that the government build saw mills in Alaskn and transport the lumber at cost If we don't take immediat3 steps to save the forests in the states the country will be a desert in which even the trusts and old farmers could not live. Some socialists ' contend that it would be a waste for the government or some co-operative association t build a new set of railroads, factories farms, etc. There is enough now. True, there are enough houses to house all, and farms enough to feed all, but what good does that do the mil lions who have no farms or homes, and no money to buy cr rent? 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The Independent contends that e3pc dally not socialize farming, but best have small farms throughout the wes: tind northwest There are more than 1,000 Eteam plows to work and steam harvest threshers (cuts and threshes at one operation). Farms, 10,000 to 50,000 acres. There are a couple of eastern trusts starting operations iu northwest Canada on each 50,000 to 93,000 acres, but the reader knows aU this long ago. In northwest Canada there are 500 million acres prairie. The days are Ion;, things grow fast in summer, land is good, they raise 12 to 34 bushels wheat to the acre. Wage are $30 to $50 a month and board. Steam plows run : three and one-half to six miles an hour and cut one to three rods wide and generally sow at the same time. There is one farm in the northwest of 46,000 acres; land cost $3 on ten years' time. The machinery was bought on one-half cash, half three years. They have ten steam plowt cutting two and three rods when they run header and thresher; can fire with anytuing, but coal costs $1.50 to dig anywhere in the hill sides; niayb;1 haul ten miles; some timber close There are 500 rhares in this company farm; for G to 7 months there are 36 men and for 6 weeks extra 3(i more; they do all the work, including repairing engines. There are several six-horse teams that do the seeding on the fall plowing, haul some water, etc. Each share paid in $100 to start; balance on time. No dividends for one and three-quarters years. The yearly expenses are about $25,000, or ess. The gross value of grain raised s $275,000 average. This is raised by 1,800 days labor. Except the ten or thirty-six, ths shareholders don't live there and those only seven months. The labor ers (even if shareholders) get wages. For 16 days labor done by sharehold ers or hired at $40 average, he receives $500 a year after land was paid for. The laborers get enough so they can winter in the south. A five-month ticket, both ways, cost $40. I have in my mind's eye an old- fashioned farmer; this year his gross receipts were about $450, including cattle sold; got 400 acres, much rough. They work from 5 in the morning to 10 in the evening, winter and summer. It is one endless grinding, cussing, scolding from morn to night The children at 12 couldn't read. There are millions like them. But they seem to prefer that kind of life to produce $450 in place of $500 for 16 days' la bor. Each must hold separate title to 80 in the big farm. The engines have tier 50 to 60 inches wide, all rough, and big balance wheels that increase the power. They generally make two rounds in five hours, 6 mile off, 6 miles back. Wind mills and pipes and tanks at both ends proviGe water. Sometimes one crew runs 10 to 11 hours, and another the same with the same engines. It is a machine and engineers' farming. They do Im prove the land. The management is easy. A little chamber on engine gives shelter in rains, so work can go on pleasantly; but then some soils will stick to the wheels, and thev ran not plow so much. However, if a man of Morgan's tvno is manager, the shareholders would never see their $100 again, nor a cent of dividend. But if the laborers could agree, it wouldn't take much capital to start: $25, $50. or $100 would eive them an income In addition to what they worked for elsewhere. I have seen places in the northwest where a plow could be run 30 miles straight and not take it out of the ground, but in the southwest could run 100 miles. A 12x12 mile farm is the most economical, but 3x3 miles will do. This describes a socialistic form. but the shareholders are not social ists, except in practice. In employing the unemployed the government would farm that way. A tramp could then get enough to buy food by working on or two weeks; this would be eas ier than tramping, so there would be no tramps. In the southeast part of Alaska there are any amount of rivers and creeks where the pine timber grows down to the water's edge. All that is to be done there is to chop down the tall timber, float it down to the mill where it is crosscut sawed and han dled by machinery and run aboard ships that take 10 million feet of lum ber. In fact, saw it, ship it around the horn and up the Mississippi and inland 500 miles for $4 per thousand and pay big wages. It would cost less than $1 aboard ship; then there would be $30,000 to pay sailors and train -crew, cannot sink a ship loaded with lumber. As much lumber as goes on the market is destroyed by forest fires. Give me wood for fuelI don't want coal. The small matter of Bartley's steal, railroad taxation, etc., amounts to but little; the railroads would shift the taxes on the people; higher rates those are small losses. But by not be ing socialistic 175,000 of Nebraska's voters lose $175,000,000. The populist was John the Baptist in socialism; he has lost his home. Don't worrv about details in socialism referendum will settle that. Please vote socialism? while waiting practice co-operation in our business, farming, etc. - S. P. GIBSON. Star, Neb.