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PAGE 6 Xahs Nobraskn. Indopondont OCTOBER 26, 1905 Letters 0 From The People Thinks Issue Is Confused Greenville, Texas, October 21.- To the Edi tor of The Independent: With all due respect, Mr. Maxwell, I must say that your latest effort In this discussion confuses rather than enlight ens the issue. If statistics can be 'swept aside by mere assertion, the writer mat asserts the hardest will certainly win, hands down. Your first letter gave promise of an investigator a man realizing that the determination or a truth must have for its base certai.i known facts from which conclusion can be logically deduced. It would be a waste of time to continue this discussion if all this is to be ignored, and so far from being edi fied the readers of The Indeperiuent would be sickened with disgust. . . . ,. Without intending any disrespect . whatever to you, or to my other critic, Mr. Gordon of Read ing, Mass., I will say that if government statis tics have , no. value which you gentlemen are bound to respect, this discussion is off. Both of you meet these statistics with a '"taint so," and seem to regard your Ipse dixit all sufficient That a mere parenthetical statement of mine is the first thing assailable, looks like a man "catching at straws." In view of the fact that not a word comes back on the "pessimistic ques tion," I assume I am making some progress. With this rubbish out of the way, perhaps there will be less to divert us from something of real value. You say: , " "My own opinion is that the proportion of capitalists to the whole, population is greater today than ever before." " "The statistics on which socialists found their theory is on - a certain range of low-salaried workmen." The struggle for existence is not as hard as it was fifty years -ago, nor is it more precarious." "There is no increase in pauperism." "A large percentage of the ngriculturists are capitalists." i; ... Now, Mr. Maxwell, where is your authority for these assertions? Have you anything more than your . belief your "opinion?" If not, some of the "chaff" socialists are accused of using will be found at your ow door. What does the world caro for your opinion? . . You also gravely inform me and The Inde pendent readers that the statement of "five- sixths of the labor of production being performed by the machine is true in certain industries only," and ask "how much does a machine do in growing an orchard?" Evidently, Mr. Mawell, you have never seen the thirteenth annual report of the commissioner of labor. I will state for your information that among the twenty-seven products of agriculture treated in. the report, orchards are one of them. The report embraces eighty-eight different indus tries and considers the production of 672 different articles. The list is varied and includes in addi tion to agriculture, agricultural implements, bookbinding, boots and shoes, bakery products, brick, carriages and wagons, clocks and watches, clothing, cotton goods, cutlery, cooperage, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, furnishing goods, furniture, iron and steel, jewelry, ladders, leather, lumber, marble and stone, oysters, planing mill products, printing and publishing, saddlery and harness, soap, tinware, tobacco, wall paper, min ing, and quarrying, transportation, etc., etc. This is by no means all, but it is enough to show something of the scope from which an average is derived. In some of these industries the machine is thirty-nine times more efficient than was the hand method. The orchard, about which you are con cerned, is but a fourth more efficiently cultivat ed. Prom assuming these eighty-eight industries represent a fair average of other industries not included in the report, the statement that five sixths of production is now performed by the machine, is derived. The thirteenth annual report of the commissioner of labor is my authority; who is yours? Now while efficiency of production has in creased sixfold, this same report shows that the wage of the worker has increased less than 9 per cent in fifty years. Yet with this bagetelle increase of wage, dispossessed of five-sixths of the field of production, and four-fifths of the re ward to labor, as the report shows in "face of all this you say, ''the struggle for existence is not as hard asTitfwas fifty years ago, nor, is it more precarious.' ' This only shows what imagination can do with a man with no strings tied to him. As to poverty and the unemployed, which you ridicule and assert have not Increased, the daily press answers you. The New York Herald of February 12, 1905, tinder the head, "100,000 Idle Men Fed by Charity's Hand," among other - things, in a lengthy account of the situation, says: "It is a larger army of unemployed than has ever perhaps assembled in this city before. They do not belong with the class of professional 'un employed' who go through life with a hard luck story. Most of this great army of unemployed have made a heroic effort to obtain employment. f It is stated that in addition To the large number "of transient unemployed there are 100,000 families in the city on the. verge of destitution. They are of a class peculiar to America. They have pride, they have energy, but while their earning capacity has been narrowing their liv ing expenses have been increasing, and the awful truth has come to them that they are drifting into pauperism." The above is not socialist testimony. . You seem to think socialists have "statistics" and testimony of their own. In fact you have queer ideas of socialist philosophy. Socialists recog nize all useful labor as productive labor. The railroad employe is just as much a producer as the farmer, in the sene that his labor is neces sarily a part of every product freighted over the road on its destination to the consumer. Your mahogany logs illustration is as good as could be given in confirmation that labor (in connection with the natural resources) produces all wealth. Outside of labor there-isn't a single thing that gave value to the mahogany .logs. Labor built the ship that carried them to market. It mined the coal that steamed the ship, It fed the fur nace, it manned the" vessel on its long voyage, and, finally, unloaded its .rpecious freight, made valuable by the aggregate of labor's work, and yet to be more valuable in : its completion by labor's hand. My original, proposition still stands for an answer. ...... . . ' C. E. OBENCHAIN. An Instructive Exposition - York, Neb., October .12. Hon. 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