The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-18
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Ryoy, the NJ Y. Tribune
The curse of our time is that labor and capi-
Gal brothers and oo-worliers, If not Siamese
twins are too frequently bitterly opposed to
each other. On the one hand, capital grasps
ot everything within its reach, seeks TO tram
,,la its colleague under foot and denies it q
due proportion of the reward it has fairly
earned On the other, labor, by waste, by
dogged perverseness, often by reckless will
fuiness risks, eXasperates, destroys capital
Roth seem to forget that neither alone is com
,,lete. but that the one is complementary to
tbe other. The two, in fact, bear much the
game relation in industrial economy that steam
and iron do in mechanics. Capital is the
motive power, labor the means by which its
energies fructify. Discovered, labor is para
avzed. dead; capital, intangible, helpless; in
tbe union of the two lies the secret of their
mutual success. The correct adjustment of
tbese forces-alied, not antagonistic-has
aver been complex and difficult problem,
fbe solution of which to-day would set at rest
many of the vexed and vital questions now
poitating the world of labor. Is capital to
nSiov ali the fruits of this mutual action?
Can no plan be devised by which labor, too,
NAV participate in them? Cooperation, in
its more limited application, is a cropping,
feeble-yet earnest, after the light. Produc-
five co-operation, the extension of the prin-
ciple to manufacturing pursuits, is probably
The long-looked-for panacea, but is beset with
many difficulties, some professed friends of
the working classes even going SO far as to
assert it an impossibility.
The plan of industrial partnerships, now on
trial in England, and which has found warm
advocate in Mr.. G. j. Holyoake, editor of Tie
Social. .EcOn0neiSt, periodical devoted to CO.
pperative and other social reforms, though
less thorough perhaps in probing to the root
of the evil, seems in the initial stage of the
movement most plausible and promising.
tical manufacturing firm, wishing to
adopt it, forms company, admits its work
men as shareholders if they have the means,
appropriates seven, ten, or twenty per cent
of its income, as the case may be, to cover
The risks of trade and pay fair interest upon
the subscribed capital, and then divides the
surplus equally in a predetermined ratio be-
tween capital and labor-shares and wages.
Under such an arrangement labor would CO.
operate in the travail and coparticipate in the
profits of the firm. Capital would supply the
Einews of war and continue the controlling
directing factor of success. Labor would be
Eatchful, economical, industrious. The gain
OF the one would be the profit of the other.
This is no mere fanciful theory. The plan
has been tried and tried successfully; and the
case of the Wildwood Collieries, which Mr.
Holyoake cites, will, we trust, stimulate not
only American miners, but American citizens
and American capitalists, to copy so laudable
an example. Already, in fact, it is beginning
to bear fruit among us. Messrs. Brewster &
Co., the well-known carriage manufacturers
of this city, recently adopted the principle if
not the details Of the measure. They have
made an arrangement with their employees
whereby the latter will henceforth share in
the profits of the firm, while still receiving
the highest wages paid in the trade. The
proportion of the profits thus to be distributed
among them is estimated at nearly $40, 900
per annum and in addition the firm will con-
tribute largely to q fund for sick and disabled
workmen. Such an acknowledgment of the
claims of labor by the Messrs. Brewster is an
exceedingly gratifying sign of the times, and
we shall watch the experiment with interest,
feeling that the result will amply justify their
sagacity and iberality.
THE SOAPLESS, COMBLESS NEGRO.
From tie NJ Y. World.
Parker Pillsbury is penitent. He has
been down South, and for the first time in his
Gfe he has seen the negro in his native lair.
And he does not like him. During the earlier
portions of this ancient abolitionist's
career, although often earnestly urged to visit
the Southern States and affectionately as
sured that upon arriving there he would be
furnished with free ride and arrayed in an
elegantly fitting suit of clothing composed
angeniously of the product of North Carolina
pine and the feathers of domestic fowls, he
unhappily declined to avail himself of these
invitations and remained in the North
where he evolved out of the depths of his OWE
inner consciousness an ideal negro, sci
him up on q pedestal in the sanctum oi
Antt-SGU6Ty Standard, and worshipped
him. But now, having at last betaken him
self to the South, he has seen his idol as he
really is, and in some letters to the Re00Luti0l
he gives expression to his disgust and amaze
ment. He found nothing as he had expected
TO see 1T. Even the liquor at the South i
bad-at least the festive bowl which Mr.. Par
ker Pillsbury's colored friends in Charleston
commended to his feyerish lips was filed wit
hell-broth. ''Ihe whisky here is diabolical
exclaims poor p. p. and yet they (the colore
people, appear to love it more than anythin
else, women as we'll as men, We certainl
would never have thought of selecting Nj
Parker Pillsbury as faster; but he speaks S
nuthoritatively concerning the quality of tl
negro whisky in South Carolina that we L
longer doubt his capability. If the whisl
there is worse than the World commission
found it to be in New York, we pity poor
p, and pray for his speedy return ere he fin
snakes in his boots AS for the negroes, tn
must be abandoned to their fate. 9Th
drink il red hot from the barrel, clean al
pure" he continues, still harping on {
whisky, "and 1 have seen mothers pour it tn
down the throats of their six months
babes.
But this was not the greatest shock exE
rienced by MIR. Parker Pilsbury. Not OF
did he find tho negro idol whom he had W
shipped drunken sot, but he saw that ev
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