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Show To Wlioin Rewards Are DueJ It has been given us to read a groat book. It is Mallock's Crucial Examination of Socialism. It ought to be read by all Socialists especially, and by men who are disturbed by the pens and voices of politicians who hold it a duty to extend cheap praise to the class known as working men. It is so easy and so plausible to say that all progress and all achievement has come through labor; that all that has been accomplished the gold that has been, saved, the houses, the ships everything are but perpetuated labor, and hence Ud be common property, that few bend down analyze the facts, and from them to see clearly. clear-ly. But the truth is that labor by itself has never done anything to improve the world. It has to Ijlffir ; 1H be directed labor, and when that is recognized P lH the notion that all men are born equal vanishes iijfifl 1H away, and we see clearly that what has been ac- iiiflf BB complished has been through mind acting on Iji- HH some form of labor. It may be on the labor of Hi 1h beasts or machines or men. It matters not. j !p Something takes form in the mind of a man. He I flBf J works upon it until it materializes so that other J Wd men can see it. It may be a machine that can '1'h 1 do the work of a thousand men. Does it not If ill belong to its creator? And if he amasses a for- p jl tune from it, is not that fortune legitimately his, j Mm and should it not descend to his children? It 1 Or suppose he writes a book that the world Imf 1 wants, and thousands purchase it, are not the aSw j M profits legitimately his? Or suppose by his wmt i 1 genius he creates a business giving a thousand ? II J I M men employment, is it fair to say that the men y-m i' j M at work have made him all his money? Is it not iSm l i 1 fairer to say that because of his genius he has IC! 9! made it possible for a thousand men to live well, J m , ' jH to be well clothed and to give to wives and chil- ! ijj fy H dren what they need? I j jjfl M Mallock says that when cloth weaving grew fflfi1 jl into a great industry four hundred years ago in lifr 1 England, the Jooms were substantially the same 5SsB 1 as of old, that the robes of Queen Elizabeth were Wm' 1 woven on substantially the same loom that "wove 9 ir, ,', the robes of Semiramis three thousand years ,- h M before. But then came the steam engine, the l'l ' M power loom and a transformation. Was not the i 9 change a triumph of mind entirely? And what jtfji , jH proportion of the profits that come of the change 'a If'' I is due the man who works before the modern W. I loom? Had he any part in its creation? 'fr I If a soldier hold an army up into a battle until Jilt'j', I H victory smiles upon his banners, the world rec- rH ' I ognizes his superior attributes and attainments. 'HlaJ but if he is an industrial king, and through his . f! M ' genius gives an army of men employment at fair WW ' wages, do the employees make the fortune, or , jf- does tho man himself become a providence to l ' the thousands that lean upon him for employ- a' ment and trust his brain to pay their wages? u i From it all there should be a new standard fjlaf established, and brains are Avhat should draw the W i rewards according to their measure. When this v'm rule shall be established, then men will no longer 'lll' assume that they have any share in the world's Ur wealth, save what they by their brains directing J it' their hands can acquire, and this must be, for 'fywj no two men are alike and no man has a right to J any part of what his brother man has wrought. H'h & " |