The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-08-12
CHEAP LABOR.


labor is needed in this State, it will be we'll
to first notice what it Is.
Cheap goods. or chattels, or lands, We
understasd to be, such As are bought at q
fair price not at rate which does violence
b the essential, moral rule that. any thing
beyond fair exchange is wrong in tendency.
Il not in effect. If A has money to loan
and B has need to borrow, aud A can afford
10 loan at given rate. and does loan to B
At such rate, it being one which B S neces-
stiles and uses for money will justify him in
paying, it is all right it is legal and moral,
and both A and B, and through them the
public, are benefited. And the nature of
the transaction, nor its bearing in any just
sense, are affected because they-A and B.
are of different nationalities. So, il A
wishes to labor in any department of honest
industry for his daily bread and raiment,
and B wishes his services, At a compensa-
ton which the one can afford to give and
tie other take, no wrong is in anywise done
to either or to any one else; on the contrary,
both are benefited, and through them the
community. Nor can the nationality of
either be considered As justly affecting the
legitimacy Of the matter.
> Now, if wants to borrow money of A,
and A can afford to loan him what he may
want. at fifteen or twenty per cent per an
mum, has any man or combination Of men,
who have money to loan, but will not loan |
il at a rate which B can afford to pay, the |
moral or legal right to say to B, ''you shall
NO. borrow of A." and to A, "you shall not
loan to B unless you pay and get the same rate
of interest We would exact ?" We cannot
imagine for moment that such nonsense
can find an apologist, even among the mem
bers Of "Chinese Opposition League"
How then. upon what species of ratiocina-
tion. can it be said that the price of labor
should be governed BY different rule.
To illustrate further: Suppose A has
farm, to work on which in order to raise
crop he can afford to pay only fifty dollars
per month, and can get all the help he may
need at that price, has b, who, from certain
circumstances, can afford to pay sixty dol
lars per month, and cannot obtain service
any cheaper, any moral or legal right to
say to A, you must pay sixty dollars per
month for hired labor, or stop farming :"
Have the employees of B. who cannot. per-
haps. afford to work for him for less than
sixty, any moral or legal right to say to
the laborers Of A, who can afford to work
for less than sixty dollars per month, "you
must exact and receive from A, sixty dollars
or more per month or stop working for him:"
We think this reasoning and illustration
plain and simple, yet fair, pointed and logi- i
cal.
We must not lose sight of the fact that
Capital and Labor are twin sisters, and
ought to walk tremendously over the high
way of life, hand IN hand, heart beating to
heart. . United, they stand divided, they
fall. and great il the descent! Alternately,
We may justly say. they devise and execute I
for one another. What show would capital n
sver have had, for profitable employment, in a
the mines of Washoe, had labor not opened \
the natural repositories Of mineral wealth :.
What would labor-the honored pioneer,
have accomplished, had Lot capital, at her
heck, crossed the Sierras? The answer il
'imple, inevitable where success has
crowned combined effort, abortion would Y
have reigned supreme; and in lieu of the
wilderness blossoming As the rose, Nevada
vould, to-day, have been under Digger, or
worse, Mormon rule. Then. speaking Of 10
= cheap labor" in the sense We have endeav- Of
Dred to convey, that is, that cheap labor is it
Duch a. one man can afford to do and an to
'ther to have done, and both, a. well a. the IN
'ublic. reap benefit from it. We avow that Il,
Nevada needs it, longs for it, suffers for il, h,
md must have it. !.
We have innumersble mines which the
uners can afford to have worked, when they
An employ the necessary laborers at from =
no to three dollars per day; but they can
ot be worked with any gain BY the obtain :,
nent Of iaborers at higher rates. We can, .,
{ call, command all the requisite laborers at
be prices named, and they can afford to work d
II those prices; Yea. if they do not work for ve
hose wages, they must beg or steal. and be IA
harges upon the public in some shape. in Ii
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