The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-10
EVANSVILLE, IND,
The Cooper..


duciion of machinery for the manufac.
tuEe Of barrels. 1t is the common COM
plaint Of manual labor against machinery.
The latter is reducing the prices of pro-
ducts and forcing day laborers from their
accustomed employments, or compelling
them to work for less wages. 1t is the
inevitable course Of events. Capital is
gaining the ascendency, and will, in spite
Z. ofaIlthe struggles against it, become a
moDopohSt. TIE relations Of labor and
capital are in a transition state, and it is
Impossible TO predict lhoir future posi-
tons The changes in the progress bear
with severity upon the present genera
ton Of laborers, whose conditions and
prospects presen. a problem Of deep in
terestto the philanthropist and states
man. Slavery in all its forms is but the
subjugation Of labor to capital. The de-
gree Of servitude depends upon the men
tai Developments or degradation Of the
laborer. Labor, to save itself from de-
grading suhjectios to capital, must be-
come enlightened--elevats its social and
political condition and assert its rights.
The power of the country is in the hands
Of its iaborers. Let them shake of the
rule of the dcmagogues, and emaneipate
themselves from the control Of the pro
fessional politicians, who make them
hswers of wood for their own aggran-
dizement, and insist that the measures
of government, instead Of being deter.
mined by the interests Of political fac
tons, and of fanatical, speculative theo-
riss, shall be framed to promote the prac-
teal and material interests of the PEG.
pie. While machinery is depriving the
hboring man Of employment, the princi-
Piles Of free trade are urged upon the
country by Southern Lecompton Demo
Gratis and their Northern abettors, which
will reduce the prices Of our products to
the wages Of the AFFECT labor of Europe.
BUY where you can buy cheapest
is the political maxim Of capital opposed
to labor. The theories of free trade are
the economics Of capital seeking its own
interests, regardless of the rights and in
terests Of labor. If laboring men allow
themselves to be deluded by them, their
future condition is hopeless. Instead Of
appealing to humanity for mercy and
protection for the black slave, the white
lsborer may call for salvation from q
baser ssrvitude to capital. In the re-or-
ganization Of parties in the approaching
political contest, one great question will
be, the duty OF the government TO protect
home industry. There will be tariff
rarty--one that will insist that the
measures of the government shall be de-
vissd to develop the immense material
resources of the country, and set its In
dustry to work upon them. and give new
value to labor by creating new demands
for it. Let the working men form thsiI
own party, the leading theory of which
shall be the protection Of domestic indus
try. Let its object DO to insist on tn,
development of the vast riches which
nature has lavished around US; stop thu
importation of iron, coal, earthenware
cloth, and the products of every kind
for which we have the raw materials II
abundance to produce lor ourselves, an,
on which our own labor is begging to b
set to work. In such party only, VII
the laboring men find their true positio
the only one where their true interest
will fostered and cared for.
The Messrs. Oakley have dono moth
ing more than the course Of events mad
inevitable. This city canpot dispeus
with the use Of machinery when its com
petitors in business are using it. Messr
o. have only Supplied an imperative d.
mand, one that mist have been filed o
the business would have surely left Il
city. The question was to take the mi
cAinery or lose the work; and whic
was the worst fthe two evils? "a hs
loaf to a starving man is better than r
bread" Don't, therefore, blame tho.
who have bought tho machinery. ]
prssence uas unavoidable. and we shout
be glad that IL has fallen into SO kin
and li5eral hands. They are rat grass
ing. avaricious men-but liberal and "a
in all their dealings, and blessed with
larger share OF human Kindness an
sympathy for the struggles of laborir
men, than is ordinarily found among en-
ployers. They have no desire either
be monopolistsi in their business, thong
they have the power, for they have fire.
ly offered to sell Ton the most Hber
terms, rights to use the machines to pc
sons all around them. We are led
believe that the imputations of the jou
nsymsn coopers against the owners
the machines have originated in mi