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Representative W. F. Murray spoke on the position of the college man in the United States government. He does not know anything about the candidate for the council or the representative, a thing that every workman is familiar with, and he knows very little even about his senator. But the college man can make good use of his economic knowledge of tariff and labor questions, and can control the government. "Self-government is the key-note of our institutions." Every well-educated man has that power for good or evil in his hands. Mr. Murray, then said that the current...
...city employees must be obtained by some form of increased taxation, which will tend to benefit this privileged class of workers at the expense of the community, whereas a benefit resulting from increased taxation should revert to the public. The higher municipal wage, moreover, increases the hold upon the workman by municipal employers, which is a factor tending towards corruption...
...improvements in production which have taken place of late, have been due to the concentration of intellect, which has given rise to inventions of machinery. In the manufacture of machinery the same principle as that which governs any social system holds-it is not the individual skill of a workman which counts, for a good workman may be employed on a poor machine, but it is this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather the ability of the inventive...
...attempted enforcement of uniform wages is a mistake. It ignores the diversity of local conditions and personal capacities, ties up the ambitious workman, and cuts off employment from the weak, the dull...
...mile run--Swan, H., Mills, H., Teel. Y., Workman, C., Dawson, O., McNaughten...