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Show SEE THE UNEMPLOYED Very Necessary to (Bosses') Happiness. Happi-ness. , "See the Unemployed'" ''I do. What a bedraggled, spiritless, sodden-looklnr crowd they are, to bo sure. Cannot something be dono for their relief, O Sage?" "Most assuredly something can bo done fbr their roilof, -but, as you well know, to do the sensible thing would not be desirable." "I know something of the sort, Tho sensible thing Is to put them at work at reasonable wagon, and t can think of nothing moro desirable than that the men who wish to work should bo allowed to work." ' "I am surprised at your Ignorance The Unemployed are absolutely necessary nec-essary to civilization." "I am sure you are wrong for once, O Sage." "Let us sec. If all men were employed, em-ployed, then there would be no Unemployed. Unem-ployed. Am I right?" "Obviously." "And, If thoro wore no Unemployed, thoro would be no strlke-hronkers when men wont out on, strike. Is It not 60?" "It Is." "And, accordingly, when mon struck, the employors would either have to concede the demands of tho workmen or closo their plants." "Yes." "And as a small profit Is better than no profit at all. employers would not close their plants except as a very Iasf. resort," "Surely." "And so employes would become as nrrogant as employers are now and employers would hecono as mook a3 employes are now. Do you follow mo 7" "I think I do. That would be a terrible state .of affairs, (wouldn't it?' ' "Yea. for the employers." Ellis O. Jones, In "Life." |