Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-06-01
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The Eject uf the War on labor

ether favags.d aF4icles, esEFglhlng 10 sasns
hsias: aaur has had an awful tambiey Asia
so.sB. ard other nrficlesef ausseonsstssF'r
ton, aii good far the poor Easns brs ss'P
wages are beginning TO taNble. Lssf
| week sho Erie Il. r. Company doaked Toe
cages OF their employees I've are aisnuA
afraia that they lnst more than they gait.
ed by the Gre which happened sagFtly Mt
tar among 1hefr aieds aad workshops IS
Hoboksnl. Wages are pretty bigl. aua
We do not Iesrn that any laboFer has.se'
Ecome rich Of lhem. IIa Manages % lise
aad thas, doahsless, 10 all hsshaa sny Fsgsh
10 expect. Money must breed, bat hos
can il manage 10 DO 80, hos pay interest,"
iividen,ix, salaries. snbsidies, and 30 uns
esgecialIy rs the eI0saof the way has rot
| m end q = good deal og very prpRtahl
| hasiness, unless labor ID krpt 70 The hishi
aet point Of psaiues aad the iowest peini
Of Rabsistence. II white men Won't staud
| ii, black men must; there are hundreds OF
| thee san,ls af them now on oar hands, theT
| may as yell be made useful, In our hoas
es, we.ksheps, helds. Let bis white
| brother 60 10 II xien, and carry out the
Monroe doctrsnes Short sighted Dir. Cap.
IL list, the daEksy ean't stand your eli
mate. and ~ don't know how TO manage
MIN, any more than aa idiot kaoWs bow
| ts drive mule, i white man viii enlti.
vate twenty acres wheFs a black man viii
not eulgiyase ten. " hence Is this iFresis.
sihlp psnpaarity Of iaanccta grasp gath.
| ey, acculnu.atr2 Ntuii il nos be much
better for the world IL eapitRl, after lhr
fashion OF Ehs old plantation system.
| p ut moro and hoardesl less? Tbs man
sho woul discover, devise som method
| hT hich TO resume the aBtaganisIn be-
tween labor ana capital, proaues and 4,
nance wauii confer very grcaa blsssSiag
IN mankind. If the permanent welfare
ard happiaess bf the h4bo'er were 10 CD.
iacida with The Interest of capital, -
should approach ss near to trGeS zssrai,
physical aHd milIenial perfection as in
this naughty world Sc hare any right to
| hope for. Thsn would there be no pHu-
pers. fever hospitals, poor-houscs and
penitentisEies. Bat we do not YET exuect
anything so goe !; money must 20 on grin
/ ding Gus its inter eat, labor must tramp
and ;nil and sweat, so lou- as itcaR: wae3
the machine wears " il is easy enough
I g
sach used- up material, AMI il il about IS
much thought Of as the bEokrn li;tey Of =
| waFkshhp in the great cenErcs bt civil
za,ion il i aecunniattng at fearful rate.
and wilh /, accumulate dissress, ignorance
/ aud d.gra,iaiann. In this country, Ia a
few over crowded places, we have TO =
great extent, escaped these tyils. 10 Eng
land, Males, Scotland aai Ireland the
entire isshnFing class are ths sIaTes OF % z
privileged fcw, and destined 10 perpetual
s3il anu poverty. fIyreit has nos en-
so; bus We yery much fear that the coun-
| Try bas entered on a state ct things more
in Conformity sish tae manners AMI prac
tiees nf ''Old Englanai," and "Taxss" is
sh- man To do 1t. Labor always hns to
upper capital, 10 pay interest and TO
mak- profits. Capital never pays, it pre-
t,Eds 10 pay. or rather il pays by thai
sori IT contribution mentioned hv th~ Pa-
ct Pollock, in hJs "Conrse Of Tine. I"
when describing a hypocri:s
WHO with ore hand puts penny in ths uFn 0i
povrTty
AID wisa the osser takes shilling Qua.
Wealth no nare pays the National n ht,
nor the Interest on IL, szan Massachusetts
pays the tuiI, on y hich sh" has grown SO
fast, Pompous and imp@rious-
AZ. Stewart paid bic SJ0, 100 Of income
tax last rear, bat his customers bad pre-
viuusly made il sll gooj 10 him, and,
daubt!ess, something over, rs eummisai rs
| &C., for collecting and dishussing, ami so
io they all. Thus every tlms n yasi oi
cloth, a pair ef shoes. or pound Of four
changes bands, it IA loaded wiih littIc
more Taxes" till it comes to the con
sniuar; be-, poor man, has nobody to foo,
the bill but himself. Well, his arms are
strong. bis shoulders are broads les him
90 work. What else was he made for2-
Al very rice, Mrssrs, Capital & Co., il
we only bad some Of tbs benefits; bnt, 20
a., il is worse than digging dead horse
out nf the mire- we get ne&her hide, hair
nor hopfs. We are told that the var has
naie this taxation necessary. Yerv we'll,
let those sho pr AFT by the wsF, or wbu
bare profg'ed by il, those Tor whose ben:
eft it was eaJri~d on, lrt them PAY for it.
Certainly, the laboring man has not bsn-
Gifted by the war; far from il, unless pos
Fag~ currency, three prices for everything,
and starvation raginns are q heneat. Wby
it's ~ long ssnce some hGvs nsed sugar IN
tLtiF famiiips that they hare fDreotten
bow it tastrs, ard as fur anything in the
way Of lnttrT there has net been grease
SPOT on their table for tw years; hnd yet,
heavier ard beayitF mes on their Shoui-
dprs The weight of taxes. We feel like
Siahad the Sailor xith the Old Man Of the
Sea on his back. ami 90 Way OF shaking
him OF. Far shaad as Sc can see up tha
rugged and dusty path Of daily tell; la
bnr, bending. struggling under i'a load,
gropes along 10 the end, ard that end how
often the paoE- house, sbc hospital and thC
potter>- sid.
Frederick Douglass, EGG, F. u. c., al
The annual meeting, last week. Of the An.
ii Slavery Society, told his ausiiepco thai
tbe coiorrd youth vas nos much cut eI
the way, when, 10 reply TO some boyish
tauuts Of "niggeT," be said, ''You'ii visit
yon vas nlggsr, too, before the war IL
over" Wherrst the audisnce vas highly
cnteFtaits l.. Whether she great body oI
the pcorle would have feis the same pleas
ure is.donbtful, bat Shoddysiom has be
come quite ena8ored Of Cuffydom. The
|" COfFnre a I'dfriqsten Is nj the rage
ard Affieaa diamonds, shining iet, aTt
smoug tbs most fashionable adornmsnss
Of youth and beaatY. A. certain srim-
ming store ca Broadway thers is temp.
Ting display Of African and qaadr.sor
beauty In crochet work. Taxa care, Ais'
| Shoddy,
/ vice II 9 sasdsssf Of xneA AI6eans mefat
| That % ba na&pza nesszs knt 30 be ssens
| Eui sesss 500 Off, fssfflEag With heF Fs1e,
| VS. afaa sasuEa. thsn pAty, thsa enassAes
The Egyptians grated on the negTe
stock, 20 did the CaEshagenians-- boil
came 10 pongFelism and grief. Mexics
IL another mongrpl. Docs the Anglo
| Saxon race fhiak thse il can commit chi