The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-05-07

Il behooves all classes of working
men to understand how these two
subjects arc viewed by their rulers.
We have two distinct classes OF
politicians at work on them, and
for eight years the class that follows
the English school has ruled in the
United States totally unchecked by
the Democratic party. ....-. III
Let us now see how the British
political economists view tho work
ingmen as a class Adam Smith,
(vcl. l, page Sc, says J: +" The
wear and tear of a slave. it has
been said, is at the expense Of his
master but that Of free servants
is at his own expense. The wear
and tear Of the latter however, is,
in reality, as much at the expense
Of his master as that of the former. -
DR.. Paley, (page 52,) says :
1.-The wages paid to journeymen
and servants Of every kind, must
be such as to enable the m to con
tinue the race of journeymen and
servants, as the demand of society
from time to time, require. But,
though the wear and tear of free
servant be at the expense Of his
master. it generally costs him much
more than that Of q chattel slave"
Now, workingmen. are you will
ing to bring your children. if not
yourselves, dow to level with the
workingmen of Great Britain, whose
wages" DR.. Paley tells his
readers - must be sufficient to con-
tinue the race Of servants as the
demand Of capitalists may require. ;"
Both these ECONOMISTS assert
that the master maintains his SER
wants and his slaves, and Adam
Smith prefers the free servant sys-
TEN, not from humanity, but be-
cause the capitalists (" can realize
more wealth from the use of him
than he can from . chattel slave,
and with less risk of capital.
Malthus outstrips Smith and Pa
ley in his devotion to the capital
lists. He says: "A man born
into an already occupied world, if
his family has no means to support
him; OF if capitalists have no need
Of his labor, has no right to claim
food, he is, in fact, superausus on
the earth. and at tho grand banquet
of nature there is no room for him. ;"
Thus in Europe the producing
GLASSES are mere slaves to the capt.
talists. Their wages are absolutely
insufficient for them and their chill
dren are to be as we'll fed, and 9th
wise % we'll cared FOR as the beasts
Of the field, who are better fed aud
housed than the toiling sons and
daughters Of humanity.
An American writer thus des-
cribes the capitalists and producers
in England ~
q The foreground IS filled with
all that can please the eye and cap.
tive the mind; but behind this is
J destiny Of evil, an accumulation
Of hideous objects, which absolutely
appall the stoutest hearts that beat
in human bosoms. The wealth of
England is no dream, but real.
tangible MISTER /; is no exaggerated
thing. like an Eastern story OF coin
and precious stones III the treasury
Of this or that rulor-but il is soliai
substantial. and ssan instrument Of
real power. On the othor hand. is
tho poverty Of the masses, . power
~ 50 squalid, that even the men,
dacity Of Southern Europe appears
happiness compared with it. The
Rnsiish poor are the hardest work
ers on earth. j England owes her
veolth to them. They have dug it.
in hor mines, created it in, her fac
tories and workshops, They have
drawn It from the waters df every
ocean. from : Zsmbfy 10 tho Line,
and in ito accumulation have peril
cd everything that is dear to life.
Their reward for ell this is starya-
tion to themselves and their child
rem. or the bitter bread Of. forced
shaAity. aes enfa.' sp4 u
i" Aud it adds to The gloom which