| Show MS 1118 UK HE TRIED IT A grout many people in this lile life are too fond of making assertions that they themselves then nelves hare given no practical to test t of or would decline if they were naked asked to ono of this class li isi an eastern writer who in the text of his apfl aati clo how to live tand thrive on oil a dime a day proves himself to bo be a consummate ignoramus hesayo it can be done and proceeds to give examples of men who do it the peninsular and orient 1 I 1 steamship company ho he says empl employ oy east indian coolies lo 10 do tho the hardest york upon their st steamers earners because they aie are stronger healthier and can stand the climate better than englishmen their living costs six mix cents it a day the dock porters of 0 constantinople livo live on bread and figs and carry pounds on their shoulders the question my may he be asked to why should laboring men live on ten cents a day what would society gain by establishing rates ot of compensation tor for labor on the ton ten cent cant basis it will be admitted that no ra man an will live on ton cents a day un loss necessity drives him tho the tact fact that men who do so live are healthy and trong will not if demonstrated induce any large proportion of 0 men to live on a ton cent diet tho the ten cent idiots sire era a relic of 0 the dark ages they are people who refuse refine to tea thal tha labor is aser ting its right to a share of 0 tile the good things of 0 lite life the period is past when a hundred or two men in any country could divide among themselves tho the lux urles giving the common people just enough to enable them to do tho the work required of 0 them nature provides a more generous living than the ton ten cent diet admits of 0 what is to become of 0 the surplus product if people do da not consume it the tha earth produces a surplus as measured by our actual necessities and machinery which multiplies by a thousand old fold the working capacity of man puts puta into a form forai for use anso very much I 1 more than roan man actually needs why then should hould the army of ct laboring men be required to live on ten cents centa a day I 1 the increase in products in consequence ot of the invention and application to industries dus tries of labor savi sayong machinery opens the way to increased comforts on tin the part of tho the working people tho the standard of living is higher now than it was fifty years year ago and it will bo higher fifty yera years hence than now men who work with their hands bands for or a ily living ing will ahva moro more luxuries in the way ot of food clothes amusements ind and leisure at the middle of the next ce century tury than wo we enjoy now the ten cent school of political economists is going out of date |
