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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK ! Wealth Is Wages Most Constant Market Wages and Prosperity i Long Wants Chunks 1 Tlie American Cotton Slanu'aotur ers' association, at Charlotte, N. C. duce wages or in crease hours, an ex cellent .pledge, a. Important to the employing, prosper ous class as tn workers. This wu well put by W. .) Cameron, speaking for Henry Ford, an nouncing restora tion of the six tlol lars a day minimum wage, which will cost Henry Ford I mL nvt 2,000.000 a month ' Arthur Brisbane Camplr "The finest possible method of dis trlbuting the nation's goods is through wages. They represent work done and useful wealth created; they nevei drain or tax the country they add substance and strength. . . . "It is impossible to exaggerate the dependence of the country upon wages earned and paid, or the happy effect of a return of wages after a period of decline. . . . The expenditures of the rich cannot support any basic business in thi3 country ; for in the first place we have very few people who cnn bi called rich ; and In the second place neither their needs nor their buylnp power is sufficient to support even :. medium-sized Industry of any sorr "The largest, most varied and mn constant market in the world is the wag", earning American people. Theyi handl the bulk of the money; it is their nscft and standards that keep the ivh?els turn-, ing. If they can't buy it doesn't matlct who else can or does and th2ir buying power is wages." ' i . Business men who think wealth can be taken out of the. wages of working men, should read those words In italics, i carefully, and they should be read by any workers that have listened to demagogues dema-gogues 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 rea sonable leisure, affording time to spend and enjoy the good wages, American prosperity for all that has grown steadily stead-ily In the past would continue to grow. Have wages and prosperity 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 for less than $100 a year, about 30 cents a day. Second, MeMasters, the historian, tells you that in the early days only one American mechanic, a New England Eng-land carpenter, could earn as much as one dollar a day. Third, In 1914, when the automobile 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 while, but after the large fortunes were all gone the "share-the-wealth" gentlemen gentle-men might begin taking "chunks" out of each other. J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, who sold valuable pictures here, and sold them well, proving business ability, abil-ity, 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." Perhaps he sees ahead conditions In which "real money" will be better than miniatures. Telegram, dated Washington, from Congressman P. I.. Gassaway. Try to be as cheerful as he Is : ".Tust returned from trip through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Crops are good out there. Prosperity Is certain. cer-tain. Couldn't get breakfast In railroad rail-road restaurant on account of. crowd." Lloyd George says: "Signor Mussolini Mus-solini Is bent upon the conquest of Abyssinia. Lust Is In his eye and It makes Ids speech wild and Incoherent. Inco-herent. He resents all Interference from outside with furious anger." b -Mussolini's speech 'may have been "wild and Incoherent," but there was common sense In it when he remiuded the British that they didn't invite or hsten to criticism while they were building up their empire. Jackie Kaul, a New York boy five years old, thought kidnaped, Is found m the East river, drowned, by accident, acci-dent, undoubtedly. After dreadful anxiety, to know the truth brings relief to the parents The sad death , of this child shows tow iidth and a belief in the hereafter console human beings. Faith that their child Is happy in another world lias been happy and safe ever s iice they first missed him, makes their grief bearable. . Kln Features Syndicate, Ino. WNU Service, |