Horace Sumner Lyman

Name: The Pacific Monthly
Author: Horace Sumner Lyman

The Pacific Monthly

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“The Pacific Monthly”, is a work by Horace Sumner Lyman. It explores elements such as canners, fishermen and salmon.

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ The fishermen are co-operating among themselves, but competing with the capitalistic canners, and thereby have earned their respect.
Competition is no evil, but a necessary element of industry. It seeks only to supply the market with articles made increasingly desirable at a decreasing cost. It does thereby constantly shut off and crowd out inferior or expensive goods, but for these, substitutes better; giving better service at less expense. It is only when the laborer is not able to compete, and has no alternative but starvation, that labor is oppressed. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ The problem of industrial legislation is to give labor equitable rights in the resources of nature, and not permit private, or exclusive ownership, in the materials and natural energies that are required to carry on industry.
If the cannerymen had been legally allowed—and this is not to say a word against them—to own the river itself, and all the fish in it, the fishermen would have had no recourse but strikes and violence to prevent reduction of wages. Where labor is shut up to violence to preserve its part in reward of industry, it will use violence. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ If every laborer, like these Columbia river fishermen, could proceed to work on his own account, and put out a product on the market, and reap his own reward, if wages did not suit him, there could be no oppression.
The industrial sin of the time is the shutting of labor away, mostly through legislative action, or neglect, from opportunity to make use of natural advantages. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ Wherever it has the alternative of inaugurating competition on its own account, and engaging its own energies, it will infallibly resort in the end only to industrial methods of obtaining; its share in proceeds. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ They look upon salmon fishing as their permanent business. Many of the fishermen are well-to-do, owning comfortable homes in the city, and perhaps a "ranch" in the country, and look upon salmon fishing as the chief means of livelihood for themselves and children. They desire, therefore, to build up the business, provide salmon hatcheries in order to maintain the supply of fish, secure proper laws for protection of young salmon, and regulate the methods of fishing so as to enable all the fishermen to have a measurably equal chance at taking fish. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ Ole B. Olsen, secretary of the Union, reports that since their organization, and their business enterprise, there has been a marked improvement in the habits of the fishermen, who are now mainly temperate, thrifty, and ambitious to improve their condition. The most of them now, also, are married men, and are raising families and acquiring property. These men have found no serious difficulty in conducting a business worth about $200,000 a year. They employ the best legal advice regularly, and do not find the brains of other employers superior to their own. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ On account of operating an independent business of their own, they are enabled to stand upon a par with the other canners, who have to some extent regarded the business as simply a temporary investment to be made the most of while it lasted, and after it was "played out" to invest their capital elsewhere. It is to be said, however, that the canners now operating are men of much breadth of mind and ideas. An excellent fish law, prepared by the State Fish Commissioner, and having the fullest approval of both fishermen and canners, has just passed the Oregon Legislature. ”

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Horace Sumner Lyman, The Pacific Monthly

“ As a result, the officers of the Union feel that they have been able to run the cannery at a good, honest profit, and that they have attained their object in maintaining the price of raw fish at a figure that could be judiciously paid. ”

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