Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-19
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"MORALE OF STRIKES. u

other; and the further you swing him one
way the further he will swing himself back
again.
This is human nature It is the same in
all countries, and with all classes of society.
An illustration of it is now presented in the
''strikes" of the workmen in the different
parts Of our Union. The opposition that is
made to the just endeavors made by the
workingmen to obtain their rights is stimu-
ting them so much the more to persevere in
their endeavors. Capital throws the pen
dulum one way; and labor throws it the
other.
We confess that in all these popular
movements, when we'll directed, our judg-
ment, our sympathies, and our efforts are
with the toiling masses. Not that we are op-
pose to capital-not that We wish or intend
to array one class against the other-but we
hold that MAN IS OF MORE VALUE THAN MONEY.
and the labor has at least as many rights as
have the means which supply it.
1t will be dark day for this country
when Labor is held to be the mere creature
of Capital. We trust the hour will never
come in our nation when the laboring man
shall be held to be merely dependant on
his more wealthy neighbor. If that dark
hour should control our destinies, there will
be an end at once to all social order; and
anarchy, bloodshed, and civil war must
spread their gloomy pail over the whole
land
The real truth is, that the rich man is as
dependent on the poor man as the poor man
Is dependent on him. This dependence
and their obligations are mutual. In this
respect they are like the earth, the water,
and the a.. All these elements unite to
produce harmonious whole; and neither
one is wholly independent of the other.
Society is like a tree rooted in the SOIL
1t cannot live without the ground nor yet
without moisture; neither without heat
The roots cannot say they are independent
of the trunk nor can the trunk say it has
no need of the roots. The branches are de-
pendent on the main body; and the
leaves and boughs are under constant obi
cations to branches, trunk, roots, earth,
water, air, and heat.
We appeal to every mans reason if it is
not exactly so in all the active relations of
life. There is no man who can truly say
that he is wholly independent of his neigh
Dor, any more than one part of a tree can
say that it is Independent of another part.
TO take any other view of society is to cut
man loose from his moorings, and to set
him adrift on the wide, wild sea of misrule, I
without radder, compass, or chart
In this rational view of the case We fully
and cordially justify the laboring classes in
striking for all the wages they deem them
selves justly entitled to receive; while we
admit that employers have an equal right
to show &C -se why all such demands for an
advance of prices should not be granted.
Society is equally interested that Justice
should be done on both sides; because
transfer of an increased amount of money
from the employers to the employed is
merely change of the current of income
and expenditure from one side to the other.
In both cases the same amount will be in
vested and expended for the public good.
Strikes are of no injury to society, except
they interfere with individual industry and
personal liberty. In that case, they soon
oeract upon those who originate them, and so
effect their own ease. But there is no real
danger of this kind to be apprehended-
least in our country. We are perfectly
sure that American labor would never de-
mand an advance in wages, if it was not
absolutely compelled to demand it. While
there is an advance in rents, an advance in
houses, an advance in provisions, an advance
in land, an advance in fuel, why, We beg to
know, should there not be an advance in
rages?
1t is asserted, however, that while me-
chanics and aboring men have an undoubt-
ed right to demand this increase of wages,
they have no right to combine to obtain it !,
In the name of reason and common sense