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Show I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Wealth Is Wages Most Constant Market Wages and Prosperity-Long Prosperity-Long Wants Chunks The American Cotton Manufacturers' Manufactur-ers' association, at Charlotte, N. C, I; , "No ?j ' l : s t promises not to reduce wages' or Increase hours, an excellent pledge, as important impor-tant to the employing, em-ploying, prosperous prosper-ous class as to workers. This was well put by W. J. Cameron, speaking for Henry Ford, announcing an-nouncing restoration resto-ration of the six dollars a day minimum wage, Arthur Brisbane ,v,t,K ... t which will cost Henry Ford $2,000,000 a month! Said Mr. Cameron : "The finest possible method of distributing the nation's goods is through wages. They represent work done and useful wealth created creat-ed ; they never drain or tax the country they add substance and strength. . . . "It ls impossible to exaggerate the dependence of the country upon wages earned and paid, or the happy hap-py effect of a return of wages after a period of decline. . . . The expenditures ex-penditures of the rich cannot support sup-port any basic business in this coun- 1 try; for in the first place we have very few people who can be called rich ; and in the second place, neither their needs nor their buying buy-ing power is sufficient to support even a medium-sized Industry of any sort. "The largest, most varied and most constant market in the world it the wage-earning American people. They handle the bulk of the money; it is their needs and standards that keep the wheels turning. If they can't buy it doesn't matter who else can or does and their buying power is wages." Business men who think wealth can be taken out of the wages of working men, should read those words in italics, carefully, and they should be read by any workers that have listened to demagogues telling them. "Take it away from the rich. That Is the way to be happy." There are not enough "rich" to go around, but with full production, full consumption, good wages and reasonable leisure, affording time to spend and enjoy the good wages, American prosperity for all that has grown steadily In the past would continue to grow. Have wages and prosperity Increased? In-creased? They have. First, a President; of the United States once complained, publicly and without rebuke, that you could not hire a good worker in this country coun-try for less than $100 a year, about 30 cents a day. Second, McMasters, the historian, tells you that in the early days only one American mechanic, a New England carpenter, could earn as much as one dollar a day. Third, In 1914, when the automobile automo-bile Industry was young, Henry Ford's minimum wage was $2.34 a day. It was in January, 1914, that the new minimum was changed to $5 a day. The senate rejects Senator Long's proposition to spend five thousand million dollars a year benevolently, and raise the money by taking "chunks" out of large fortunes. ' This process, the senator's "share-the-wealth" Idea, might last a little lit-tle while, but after the large fortunes for-tunes were all gone the "share-the-wealth" gentlemen might begin taking "chunks" out of each other. J. Plerpont Morgan of New York who sold valuable pictures here, and sold them well, proving business busi-ness ability. In London is selling costly miniatures. Some ask why Mr. Morgan, who is prosperous, sells works of art that cannot be replaced. The reply might properly be "That Is my business." busi-ness." Perhaps he sees ahead conditions condi-tions ln which "real money" will be better than miniatures. Telegram, dated Washington, from Congressman P. L. Gassaway. Try to be as cheerful as he is: "Just returned from trip through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Crops are good out there. Prosperity Prosper-ity Is certain. Couldn't get breakfast break-fast in railroad restaurant on account ac-count of crowd." Jackie Kaul, a New York boy, five years old, thought kidnaped, is found ln the East river, drowned by accident, undoubtedly. After dreadful anxiety, to know the truth brings relief to the parents. par-ents. The sad death of this child shows how faith and a belief In the hereafter console human beings. Faith that their child Is happy In another world, and has been happy and safe ever since they first missed him. makes their grief bearable. bear-able. ). King FrrUur-Ki Syndicate, Inc. , V.U service. |