liam Shakespeare, Francis
Bacon, Samuel Butler, Alexander Pope, Charles Lamb, Sidney
Smith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, or Mark
Twain.)

In the model there are twenty-two examples. In your composition there
must be at least ten.

VI. Model II

WHAT DOES A MAN PRODUCE?

Among the banners of the unemployed in New York when they came
in collision with the police was one reading, "We Want All We
Produce."

There is a common impression among Socialistic workmen,
encouraged by some of the new-fangled college professors, that
the weaver produces all the cloth that comes off the loom he
tends, and he is robbed if his wages are only a part of the
value of the cloth. But he is only one of a long line of
producers, each of whom has to get some of the money for which
that cloth is sold.

There was a farmer who grew the raw fiber. There was a railroad
that transported the fiber. There was a long list of workmen who
did various things in the preparation of that fiber. It took
several classes of men to convert that fiber into yarn. Some men
dug the coal and a railroad hauled it. It took a good many men a
considerable time to build the loom and the engine and the mill,
and all of them have got to be paid. The men who have paid all
these previous classes of workers may reimburse themselves out
of a part of the proceeds of the bolt of cloth without
committing any robbery. What are the dividends but the
reimbursement of the people that have paid the miners and
mechanics and builders for their work before the cloth was sold?

The report of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that the
average return on all the shares and bonds of all the
corporations in the United States is 4.3 per cent. That doesn't
look unreasonable. It isn't very much more than savings-bank
interest. Of course, some corporations make very much more, but
many must make nothing in order to bring the average down to
4.3 per cent. Besides, there are a few bonds that do not pay
4.5 per cent or more, so that the average return on the shares,
which represent the ownership of the mills and factories, would
be less than 4.3 per cent.

What does a man produce? Well, put a man with only his bare
hands upon a spot of earth, or in a mine hole, or by the side of
a stream and how much wi