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Show gt more ponds than uual your wasc J are r-lat lv..ly h!;;h..r. It s not y..ur l0! silnni w ln ''fl's u it a producer pro-ducer (or om- ol' IToiIucIiik cl.u'sl; it Is the entire lnlKt clas.-, that (los I'"- roMiiim Your wnv'fs liflng wli.n yon Weep lnl of the values j ou daily produce! t put yon In vliape to io the next I day's Slavery, it stands In icasnn that ll you pay for tun- pound of l,-a nnd the utme-lioop.-r i:lves jm twelve ounces of tea Ins fail ol I h i one pound paid f-'f. voii havi- ticcn nilibcil ou value "ll U Oilln-i ecpi:il In I In.- Millie Mil-lie (.f the tour ounces, of t.i yuii were theati-d of If you reason this malter out, uoil.er )oii will s-ooii e clearly that it Is Hie PiiOM'CKU every lime (an I leu Hp., c niimer. v. ho is role I.e. I. I, rcy Ko.-onian. THE SOURCE OF PROFITS. (From "Westei- f'larion,' (Jet. S, 10in ) We read quit a lot In American Socialist (? paper.-- about robbing the consumer. It Is !Mi.il u; in us in all manner of ways. soaieiinp'S la l'n-terman l'n-terman "vuk-arlzin'TS." m tunes by lesser ll.hts (?), quite- .,inc.rcly. oi course; that is on the part of the lesser lights, who believe It Is so. Here is one from tie Appeal to Reason, Rea-son, September 21: "All commodui' s have Ibree principles- Value, piice and prolH. Yalu Is the labor cost or wage of producing produc-ing the commodity. Price I-; the se). Ing value of th" commodity or article, ar-ticle, and profit Is tlie difference between be-tween (ho Kcll.n value and the labor cost or wage. Profit, therefore. Is the positive outcome of price." No wonder Ihe I'. S. Socialists arc-nil arc-nil at 8ou.' They don't know that a commodity is net produced until it Is In Its consumer's hands. They don't know that commodities sell to the consumer at thj cost of production They also don'i seem to be grounded In the- plain understanding thai the robbery takes place at point f production, pro-duction, and all profits, therefore, are made out of the producers. Iluw could you rob the consumer possibly? How could you rob an empty hen's ' nest? l'n less you rob the producer, I robbery Is Impossible; for out of noth- ing nothing comes and it all comes I out of I lie producer The wages the I producer gets are not tho $l.".o or so much per day strictly speaking, but what that will buy. and lherofor I your real wages constitute, all you i are able to buy back out of the commodities com-modities you helii to produce. If you get jess goods for your money your wacos are lower, and if you |