Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-20
Cheap Labor.

against fdllTOdus, on tue BIOuuu luat
they would ruin all the teamsters in
the country by taking away their
employment, as steamboats, bad al
ready driven 6atboats and barges
from the principal water. courses.
Yet notwithstanding all the opposi-
ton that could be brought against
them, railroads we're built, one by
ono, until il is our proud privilege
to behold tho continent spanned by
the iron rail, and the people are
reconclled to It's presence. Neither
the treighter nor the emigrant, who
we're wont to deliver goods from
place to place or to cross the great
plains with ox-teams, has a word to
ray against railroads. Later in life
we also remember how jealous were
a certain class at he eDcroachments
Of science and mechanism on ground
they considered peculiarly their
own, when the reaper and mower
were produced. Here were means
invented to do all the work of the
laboring mau by machinery, and he
fOrso0th must staFye. But the reap
or and mower were a success, the
labOring man acknowledges himself
rid Of the most disagreeable part of
hasbandry and is satisfied. Next
came the thrcshing machine, and
again the cry went up that the inter
csts of labor were being abused for
the benefit Of the rich against the
poor. The threshing machine was
success, and no one now regrets
ia introduction. The sewing ma
chine was AN innovation on estab-
lished custom that was TO starVe all
the poor seamstresscs TO death, but
tho sewing machine was success,
aud the poor woman who, few
years ago, worked her life away
over the sewing table now sits back
in her easy chair and allows the ma
chine TO do the work.
And so il is in all the avoeations
Of life the greater the facilities we
can get for doing work rapidly and
cheaply, the less oil the curse of la
sbor will mankind have TO endure.
Labor wa curse entailed on the
posterity of Adam and Eve for their
disobcdiencc in the Garden of Eden,
and be who pretends TO admire II
for its dignity, only bellies the feel
ings and impulses OF his nature, and
misapprehends the designs of God
himself, who sent 1t "a curse and
not Il blessing. The more nearly we
can DO away with the necessities for
labor, by having everything Leces-
sary to be done performed with
out physical exertion, the more near
ly do We approach to the divine
pleasure before the transgression
and fall of Adam. TO sum up the
whole matter in plain words If ev-
erything necessary to the happinessoi
mau could be produced without any
labor whatever, Of course there
would be no labor necessary TO be
done, and man would have much
better and easier time of ii than he
has to-day in going regularly and
working his required shift. The hue
aud cry to-day is that the Chinamer
are coming by millions to the United
States, anxious and willing to dc
all the work there is to be done al
wages so small as to amount to al
most nothing, and that, ergo, white
men will have nothing to do. Sup
pose they should come and take the
place in the mines and at the pillow
that is filed by the thresher and
reaper in the harvest field ? The
man who formerly swung the fail OF
cradle, now drives the reaper OF