Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-06-28
CAPITAL VS.. LsBoR.

meet o convention in Virginia City, sup
posed to be composed Of labnring men
From the call, we at least are unable to
determine exactly what class OF men
arc invited, and what excluded, from
this convention. In the first place, the
appeal to %workingmen can only be de-
nominated ~hifalutin. Read it:
workingmen of Nevada: To you we ap-
neal in the great crisis now being forced upon
us by the sordid sclfshness Of the money
kings, who, for the lust Of lucre, are striving
to check the progress Of our young State, and
bring ruin and poverty to ourselves and those
dependent upon US for support and mainte-
nance. Day by day, and little by little, they
have advanced their nefarious scheme. BY
degrees, and i~nsidiously, has the enemy
drawn nearer; and to-day, from his ambus-
cade Of honeyed scemings, he rises amonster
which will require our united and frmest
action to defeat.
The author, in our opinion, after con-
glomerating the above words, found it
necessary to take q season of rest; it is
certainly no easy task t. collate so many
big words and express so little sound
sense. Then comes the indictment:
Capital has decreed that Chinese shall
supplant and drive hence the present race
Of ~toilers. Political parties have ignobly
pandcred to this decree; the public press has
been suborned; juries have been chosen to
advance and give life and vigor to the bant.
ling, and make its interests paramount to the
best interests Of the State and the welfare Of
her best citizens.
q These arc not idle words, written to ag.
grandize man or party. We have no desire
to advance or retard established political
ideas not in conflict with our cherished
rights.
We may naturally suppose that the
parties indicted will combine for pur-
poses of defense. Let us see what
amount of strength they can bring into
the contest: First, the money second,
both political parties; third, the press.
That is what we would call rather u
strong combination. A combination
that certainly cannot be beaten except
the opposing party "A make II case so
clearly right that conviction follows
statement.
In discussing the question of right we
may be permitted to determine what is
and what is not right in the premises,
by the standard of action governing the
men who make this fight against capital,
Have you ever considered that when you
90 10 market with three or -four dollars,
a days wages, that you occupy the po'
sition of capitalists, and do you remem.
Der ever to have given preference to tina,
stall, in making your purchases, which
charged FIVE or ten per cent. more for
the Same quality Of goods, than its
ueighbor, eve though You had reason
to believe that the merchant under stress
Of circumstances was compelled to part
with his wares ut less than primo cost,
In the whole course of your expert
ence is it not true that you have uni
formly ]patronized such establishments
as gave you the largest returns for the
least money, doing so, not simply with
q clear conscience, but in discharge Of
an imperative duty to provide fol
yourself and family. Let us suppose
that two years of economy and careful
investment of surplus funds have re-
lieved you from tho necessity of manual
labor, in other words changed you from
a laborer to.a capitalist, have you by
reason Of that change lost any one righI
that you before possessed? Certainly
not oue. Your course, then, in at
tempting to coerce capital into m
profitable investment or idleness, is not
sanctioned by any principle of right, is
not in accordance with your " prac.
tees, and should be chased with those
wild and impracticabie theories, social
ism and Fourierism, whose advocates
are ever plausible but never sound.
The plain facts in the case are that
through all the earlier years of Califor.
MAS existence labor has had the nd.
vantage over capital it is also a fac;
patent to all men, that during that time
tho material interests of this coast suf.
fered and languished by reason of the
oppression Of labor, we refer to the
time when the placer mines Of Califor.
MIA furnished employment to NIL who
chose to work Mt rcmuncrative wages.
We remember those MS glorious times,
when nothing less than an ounce per day
could draw II man from his W claim.
We all talk of the good old bygone
days, but there is not a.mau of US thRt
does not know that the California Of to.
day, with wages at $40 per month, is
better than the California Of old, with
wages at SIC, $40 or So per day, her
laboring population has more of all TINT
men labor to acquire, now than then.
1t may be said tina. all this is the result
of the operation of natural laws. So
also is the reduction Of wages, and upon
the undisturbed operation Of those
laws depends the prosperity of onr State
and of each individual citizen. Let
every man then who ism well-wisher of
the State and of his race, seek TO es-
tablish such rate Of remuneration for
| services rendered us shall give employ
ment to the greatest possible number,
for in the industries Of n State arc to be
found its real wealth, and its highest
prosperity.-Rcno Crescent.