
so, but it seems to me, instead of setting the
employe against the employer, it would be wiser to train him
so that he may be worth a fair day's pay, and trust to the buyer
of labour being as willing to compete for that commodity, and
pay the market price of that, as he is to pay for the raw material.
If you are forced to sell your labour, the capitalist, to live,
is equally forced to buy it; and if properly managed, there
is no reason why labour should not, like raw material, fetch
what it is worth in the market. No combination can, for any
lengthened period, force the price of labour or material beyond
what it is worth by nature's law for the regulation of prices,
"supply and demand." We want mankind to see that is for their
interest for all to work together and in concert-to see the
waste and prodigality of a system where the general advantage
is endangered by the perpetual occurrence of selfish conflicts.
But we want this result achieved by a further extension of the
rights of the individual, and not by the privilege of individual
inheritance and rights being done away with. The real salvation
of society would be an increase of the class of small capitalists.
No man with any property will join in the cry for a division
of goods. By encouraging thrift and industry, we take the surest
means of checking the schemes of agitators.
Progress requires the intelligent co-operation of scientists,
inventors, skilled directors, labour and capital. We want the
various parts to work together, each doing its part, and recognizing
the value of the other parts. In this union is the national
strength. To produce cheaply as possible is for