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Show "REMEDY" FOR COMMUNISM A writer iu lha Courier Journal, assumes to give a practical remedy for commuuiam; but his reasoning; is too much like ibU ol the- ranki communiat or tramp, to ever bo ac 1 cepted by the public. Ho says: The only true, cilectual remedy, is free access to continuous, compensating employment. em-ployment. If all the poor of Louisville could, to-day ( bo ushered into some f jrm of activity, at fair wages, the city would leap at once- io'.o prosperity. Let the tens of thousands that are buying the least possible- amount and cheapest form of food, and tho most unseemly and vaiueieba uumKi uu pwu ployed, a change would coma at once over their expenditures. Good food and plenty of it, comely clothing, fair dwollicjja and decent furniture furni-ture would bo in immediate requisition, and all the;e departments of trade wuld awaken to new life. Men could ailorJ to build nouses for industrious tenants, when rent could be collected without distress dis-tress warrants. Capi;al would kindle anew the engine lire lb a! a ' o now BlumberiDe along the wh -i inu of voiceless voice-less manufacioiiea. Haiti's business men would dare to dopleto th plethora ot banks to put in pri.gras their cherished cher-ished designs of enterprise, that bavs lain for, lo! these long years, in ghsitly quietude in their imaginations, hto pallid ghosts, hiding from sight in the darkness of cemeteries. These are eelf ovidont propositions. I rm ; ,TrrTTgpTTT777g Lhfin, as their I truth will be found out by the lawa of labor, industry, trade and commerce. The difficulty is to furnish "free access to continuous, compensating employment." If this were done communism com-munism would amount to nothing, and the few remaining tramps would be criminals, or willful offenders against society and the law, and not enforced vagrants as now. The plan proposed by the gentleman is as novel aa it is impracticable. His idea ib to secure a large tract of laud on which to build factories "to accommodate nearly the whole rente of miscellaneous miscellane-ous manufactures. Iu this we are to give employment to surplus labor-not labor-not at competitive prices, not to conflict con-flict with any interest of individual undertakings moderate prices always a refuge for these who cannot get openings in individual establishments." establish-ments." The millions that the grounds and factories would coat are to be contributed by the public, everybody who is able becoming a stockholder in the huge company. None of the elements of a remedy for communism can be discovered in the proposition, even could the plan be successfully worked out, which it cannot. The idea of increasing increas-ing the number and capacity of the factories is simply nonsense. Njt half of those low in exieteuce are iu oper ation, and only a few of them ara paying expenses. Not one is running to its full capacity. It is beciuae of these facts that tramps and cjmmu -nists are increasing in number. Production cannot go ahad of the demand without causing disaster.' Our manufacturing industries already exceed the call for their products. We cannot make goods where there ia uo hope of sale, piling them up or periodically destroying them, simply for the purpose of employing men. Capitalists may as well inaugurate i the system of paying one crowd of men for digging p03t holes, and anether gang for filling them up. Any factory, to be kept in operation must be remunerative, and all industries indu-stries depend upon the contingency of CU3tom lor succor. Some other rcoitdy foi communism will have to bo devieed. |