The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-10-13
THE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER II. 1899.
The Voice Of a Statesman.

Cheap human labor, / despiss the word. 1t
signifies squalor. degradation, ignorance,
VICE. Are not labOrers men? Our fellow
men? They have bodies to clothe and stom-
achs to feed. and minds 10 educate, and spirits
to elevate, and old age 10 provide for. They
have homes which they love, and wives which
they cherish. and children whom they hope to
make worthy citiZens-the honest fathers and
rirtuous mothers Of a succeeding generation.
And can you remember these duties and see
these aspirations: eau YOU contemplate the
patient hopetulncss Of cheerful and cpntented.
because fairly compensated. industry. and
talk of cheap labor: Labor is 700 cheap nOw.
Labor does not receive its just reward. This
country needs skilled laborers ami honest in
telligent, unhagging, Jealous Industry il
needs tina; such labor shall not be cheap. but
that il shall De most bOuniifuGy rewarded.
The relation OF capital and labor Is now badly
adjusted. Idle mOney--money which has no
human wants or affections or >ympathics-
earns more than labor, with all its sweat and
toll and suffering. Money combines with
money AMI socks ncrcas, and immunity W.
der acts OF incorporation. When lnhorers
combine for their protection they are IN some
Of our States denounced 10y the Law and every
where looked upon with suspicion. They
should not aataconizc.- They should co-ope-
rate. They should be il harmony. Do not
know that the full solution OF this great prob
lem has been discovered. hut l believe great
progress has been made in late years TO estab-
liSh IA more Just and better relation. That
progress will continue. Ii must command the
efforts of an advancing civilization and the
favor of a Just God, until at last the human
intellect and hand and blood. A. they cousti-
tute the noblcr. shall also he the better paid
member Ill the great partnership OF labor and
capital
Read, working men of Nevada. and ponder
upon the sentiments contained in the above
extract, and then contrast them with the
msudlin and disgusting uttcrances of Ne
vada's fsvoritc Senator. VI. NJ. Stewart on
several recent occasions, when addressing the
people upo:l political issues before the coun-
try. The difference between them on the
great vital issue between capital and labor is
as wide Asunder AS the polls, and yet not fur
Their apart than are the principles of the two
great political organizations Of which they
each respectively are conspicuous champions.
The sentiments of Geo. II. Pendleton, rs ex-
pressed above, are in exact accord with the uni
yersal idea that pervades the Democratic
masses in every State of the Union where the
party has legitimate organization and exis-
tence; and the language OF Pendlcton is sim
ply clear, bold and manly expression Of the
Democratic idea which finds quick and earn
est response il the hearts Of the middle and
lower classes Of American society; whilst the
language Of Stewart and the ideas he would
enforce upon the people are directly the snti-
podos OF the doctrine maintained by Pcndle-
ton. Stewart is par excellence the representa-
tive Of capital, whose soulless policy of nc-
grandiIement would immediate the SOILS md
daughters OF his own race at the feet Of the
money-king, at whose shrine he Worship.
Day by day the giant power of capital contn-
Ues to encrosch upon the heretofore recognized
rights OF labor until, in some parts Of the
country, the laborer ia the AFFECT ya>Sal Of the
hoartless tyrant capital. In the Las; a govern
ment bond aristocracy, powerful! cory orations.
and manufacturing lords dominate the com.
try, with none who dare dispute the absolute
supremacy Of their power. In the Middle aud
Western States, however, the voice of the Ia
boring classes has not yet been ctfcctuallv sti-
h5d by the iron hand of capital; and ms they
seem disposed TO maintain show of indepen.
dence and manly spirit which must Inc broken
and subdued before the charms of servitude
can be securely fastened upon their limbs, il is
proposed TO accomplish ut once 10y indirectuI
and strategy what 1t would take years to nc
compllsh by direct and open assaults upon
the citadel Of labor. Under the specious plea
Of philanthropy and equal rights for every
race Of mon under the sun, they hope to carry
with them in their unholy work large ele.
ment of the laboring classes who have becom,
debauchcd and saturated with this maudhr
philanthropy that Ill men are equal befor,
the law, and who upon the simple question o
capital on ono sldo aud labor on the othe
would be found working and voting on TIM
Sldo OF labor; but when capital. with ulterio
designs, ralses tho syrcn cry of universal hui
manity and equal rights. they arc lured int,
tho snare prepared for them by the cunning o
interruptions men, and arc made the willinl
Instruments to aid in forging chains for thci
own limbs. The inevitable result of this pre-
tended philanthropy and brothcrly love for al
men of all races, will be to fill our land will
countless boards of laborcrs whose necks an,
limbs are already prepared to take upon then
any burdens that capital may desire to impose
With them there is no tedious and costly worI
OF subJugation necessary to give to capital un
disputed supremacy in America az well as |,
tho Old World. With the patient docilc, un
thinking Cinnamon occupying all tho avenues
OF labor on tho Pacific coast. the contos
between capital and labor would be ended fu
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