Show THE GREAT SCOURGE OF HALF TRUTHS by JOHN OAKWOOD A soap boxer pointed at a great tao factory tory who built that factory Work maril nl he yelled who run the machines T workmen who get the profits the soap sp boxer told a hall half truth that amounted to a whole lie ito 1118 listo listeners ners did not know that that par Iti cular factory typical ot of thousands ot of others other was a complete refutation 0 of I 1 the lie it only the other halt ball of the truth were told 0 1 it li is true the factory was capital iced and tor for a million dollars the net profits gave gare annual dividends ot of 6 per cent or to the stockholders AU all that was truo but it WAS also true that the million dollar capital was divided up into ton ten thousand shares of each the ownership of these shares was distributed among about one thousand people several hundred of them were ware workmen in the factory they were saving out ot of their weekly wages wai and buying shares on the in stal ment plan they were capitalists 0 0 it WM waa likewise true that shares were also owned by workmen in other fae factories by clerical workers and by small merchants A good food many were also owned by widows and orphans whose modest estates had been wisely invested tor for them by their bankers they were capitalists it was va LO iso true that the fat factory tory corporation had issued A million dollars in bonds to raise funds to buy the material and pay the wages of workmen to build the factory ac tory these theme bonds were owned as investments not only by persons of wealth but also by many people hoopla of moderate means who had bad sATe dout out of their wages and salaries salar malar ar they hey wore capitalists 4 0 and it was waa also true that abat out of the of the fao factory tory before a cent was taken to pay interest on the bonds before befaro a penny was used to pay dividends on the stock a many dollars were taken to pay day wages to the workmen the workmen were capitalist capital late too they were investing their strength and their talents and their skill in the factory they were getting their dividends out of its earnings as well as the stockholders and bond bondholders holders |