| Show AIM 1 iti SIMIANS SDI S Only the Uie WI other evening one of o our street orators harangued a considerable nu l nee on un the Ibo question of or capital and timid labor and Ind hu ho h put Iut It somewhat this way WI Picture In your minds eye Ie a beau beautiful bau lul grove grate irol the habitation of or some por of or our nur simian ancestors Picture to 10 your yourselves yourselves our selves Mell that they are Ir cavorting from rom branch to 10 branch train from tree tr to 10 tree tr and ha having 1 n I a pond In minds eye ee that n a nig M fat many on key klY calls alt all ni the rest of or the th monkeys r nod and says to II them There TherA ate aru al many good 1001 growing hoie which must he h picked Now If It you YI fellows ellI will wil pick the lie nuts nut and bring them to me rr I will wi i give you OU otI one nut for nr each 1 ten iou So 60 they went scent away anti ami picked licked the nuts and gave gase them to 10 the tha big hiI fat ral monkey monk and he gave KIH them oie out nut of o each rach ten len of lt the th nuts that be he belonged longed to tn them Ihm They The ate Itte their nuts nut and Ind soon Moon they IhlY the were wr consumed but hut Hit big hl fut itt monkey still 11 had an In abundance Anti And yet 1 they tl tile did ld not have hae manhood enough to In go In and take tak from that mon mono monkey monkey key ke what was wa theirs thou It 1 M 14 i possible that speaker aker did not Intend this as a an appeal to 10 his liU hearers hart to In join tilt the th ranks of or violent anarchists It I Is II I possible that none of or his hiM audience felt greatly Impressed with his hIM Illustration the American working workingman tuRn man IRn I II is rather as I a rule rul hut but Uch UI doctrine Is ht nevertheless dan usa dangerous It I may ma reach the th pars larM of or some sedan 11 lunatic fanatic who Is unable to In reason and to 10 analyze onIze an argument and who may ma conclude that he has hal the tue manhood the tho monkeys monk did not have hl to In take lak prop property property anti lifo It Is 18 conceivable erty rrt oven oen 0 I that sonic some om degenerate may mA be lie h Inflamed by b Just urh harangues harangue to tu murder In InBI all BI probability the miserable wretch who attempted the thit th life lre of or Mayor Gay Gaynor Oa nor Is he n a firm believer In tho tile doctrine of or the monkeys monka and tile the The Th Deseret News X Is I no defender of trusts trust monopolies or special p lal privileges privilege eft of or anS an kind Wo We behave bellove there therl mo ate many mAn things In tho the present economic conditions of or mankind that calls Mi for far reform and a n we 1 oven even en believe that t So S has ha some om truth of which tho tue world worl ought might to take Ilke cognizance In Its 18 own Interest t nut lInt we also know that the th progress of truth norl Is la slow flow Mankind must bo be educated to 10 grasp grast Irl ft I It And education Is I a slow process J tl If It Socialism were vere en rn entirely Irel truly true trul Its It I sudden Introduction without the tho necessary n preliminary pro process cess Cus of or education would result In noth nothing ing hag but disaster anti and chaos elII Hatred of ot existing conditions which have a n deep root In the history of o the race ICI cannot bring good Io results r uM At lost best It can cnn only plunge mankind buck back Into Inlo the theah abyss ah from which It has hl slowly risen rUona a I condition ascribed by Hobbes as fol rol follows ci lows Iowa Under such sueh uth conditions there Is I no place for Industry because the fruit thereof Is It uncertain and Ind consequently no n culture of ot the earth no navigation naI Aton no use ue of tho the commodities that may ml be b Imported by I sea A no ni commodious build buildIng Ing Ina In no Instruments nf of moving and re in removing l moving such things as require much force no knowledge of or the face of or the earth eurth no tie account of ot time no arts Rrt no n letters no society olt and which Is worst of all oi continued fear r of or danger of or io 10 lent len death th and the tue life le of or man sell soli solitary u tary tal tar poor nasty naI brutish and short That condition can Ian be attained by violence If Ir the rung ruing of ot the ladder upon upen which society I t now no stands Is II cut rut from under antler It I before It has hR reached a I higher We see 11 the th evidences of or this In the acts el elo of o violence that are almost inexplicable In H country with free r Institutions hut Dul coming Coining back bAk to 10 the Ihl Illustration of ot our aur street attest orator there Is 10 one point on which as aA John Stuart Mill Mi remarks Socialists SocialIst IIII and others other have ha entertained n R fir great fat deal dl of or misapprehension nail that Is 18 as R to the proportion In which the Ihl produce 1 of or labor U la really faly shared hart by tho the producers producer and the amount di dl diverted to enrich other persons Wealth Is II I by b no nc means mean the tho product of ot the labor engaged at any an given ahen moment In an art enterprise but ut cf or that labor anti and tha tue of ot labor already stored up The Th world word depend on costly ma mathin mahln try n ri e buildings and the ability on n the part of or somebody to direct the operations of 01 a I large force of or men to one on end enil nl also nl on th the ability o or of to 10 operations In risk and to tl wait unit wal long for the thin of at o those operations nl In other oIlier words capital Is Ie needed Ju Just t ns I a much M LI labor Does capital always got get the nine out Olt of o the len In sit Lot Iet us iune John Stuart Mill 11 With ith respect to capital employed In there Ihre In is I In the tho popular no notions lions a I great deal tipsi dla of o Illusion lulon When for lor Instance a R capitalist Invests tl It In hla hi business beatrice and draws from It I on nn In cem ft pt iL suppose 1100 a year the th coin om mon In Is ri r sic If I he h were wre thin the IhrL b L f owner OI both botti boll of the tho 0 and ot of tite lie WedO 2000 while wIll th lie laborers own on nothing but bul their wages wage Thin 1 truth however hoerr Is Ut II that hat he hf only olly obtains the 18 2 00 I on 01 condition of a applying no part of i ith th the 0 to tl his hil own use 1 He tie II has hl the legs legal 1 11 i control over oer It I and a iid might nl ht tuition squander dot der It I If Ir he chose chone but If I lie he he did he hp would not nol have lin the also alo As long lone longas Ion I M as hf he h derives an nh Income from his hi capi capital tal thi h he has hi Jul not lot the th of II if withhold withholding lag ing It I tram from the th use uie u of ot others ethers As much mucho of o If hits his hl Invested capital an as at consists ol or building machinery and tind nt other In iii Instruments II of at I production jIn are Ir applied to 10 production Anil are not applicable to 10 the support anti and Ind enjoyment of or any one What Shat Is II 1 so o applicable Including what Is Ii I laid out In keeping up tip 11 or renewing the buildings antI and AnI Instrument Is iii paid pad away Avray to II laborers laborer lahr forming their remuneration and anti their share Ihrl In Itt this the division or of tin tl produce For till all 11 practical pur Put JI I they Ih have the Ihl and tn he ht has but the ti profits which It only yields Ild to him on condition that the tho Itself Is Iii employed In satisfying not his hil hi own wants but those thole of or laborers lab tr This Th reasoning r Is I perfectly sound poUnd The Illustration taken from the tho simian world has hu absolutely no application to Industrial conditions |
