Show Profits And Mentality By L. L A. A Hollenbeck Farmer Brown and Farmer Jones each with an matched ill team of two horses hitched to a wagon meet on the street Suppose Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose that each team is worth as a unit Farmer Brown proposes to trade one of his horses to Farmer Jones and they make the trade whereby each team now becomes becomes' well matched and because because because be be- cause of being well matched each team now becomes worth as a unit for both a use value and I also as a sales value Each farmer farm farm- er then has made I They trade within an nn hour and the actual work expended could could- not have been worth more than thana a dollar leaving a profit of 49 00 each for the Che transaction What made that money moncy or increased value No money moncy w was s used It was simply barter It might have been a money transaction as well Barter is only a primitive method The use of money is only a con- con for the same purpose as well as a measure of values But the actual value in the trade accounts for only two dollars dollars dol dol- lars of the dollar profit My friend A. A E. E Edwards is opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed to profits and says that rents interest and profits will destroy destroy destroy des des- troy capitalism But rents interest interest in interest in- in terest and profits is a natural law of trade You cant can't destroy a law of nature What made that 1900 1900 each in that trade I will tell teU you It was the mentality in that trade I If you destroy profits you destroy destroy destroy des des- 1 troy the reward of brains The Socialists and other economists have never given proper credit for brains in production They have almost entirely overlooked this colossal fact Rents and interest is easily casily defended too All things are arc right Only the abuse or excess excess excess ex ex- ex- ex cess or miscarriage of right Is wrong Capitalism Is the excess of it is wrong Socialists Socialists Socialists Social Social- criticise the abuse of it and would prohibit the right of it instead in instead instead in- in stead of correcting the wrong of it The world worM Is ful of isms and they have to run their course course course- some right and some som wrong That seems to be the method of tinon Error is right as a method meth meth- od too because in discovering error error error er er- er- er we discover truth but nature always aims to the natural course It pays no attention to to theories and theories must conform to it II or they will be crushed by the steam roller |