The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-07-31

The OLD SONG TO NKw TUNE.-Among all
the newspapers published in this city, there is
but one that is not perpetually singing that
threAdbare old song, about the interests Of labor
and capital being identical. The worthy ex-
ception is that unObtrusive. though sterling lit
tie radical sheet, known of The Morning Post
There are many positions taken by this paper,
which We believe iniudicious, and untenabls,
but the best half of the time The Post Is as
nearly right upon questions it assumes to ar
que, az it is possible for partisan paper to be.
A few days since under the caption, Are the
Interests of Labor and Capital Identical, il con-
tanned an acknowledgement and constructed arti-
cle in which the idea that there is an identity of
interest existing between labor and capital, any
more than between other sellers and buyers, il
pronounced an absurdity, as it Individually Is.
No better proof Of this opposition of int rest
can be adduced,' says The Post, than that fur
nished BY the fact, that a crowded and poverty
stricken population, is always an advantage to
manufacturers and capitalists, who hasten to
Large cities and thickly settled localities, not
~~~~~'~ s'sCiO buCy Cau uuu mhrhcb IOr buctI
products, but because there they will find a
larger number Of people, whose necessities OBJ
lige them to work at rates, which to the en-
ployers are profitable That is precisely What
our people have been trying to drill into the
heads of the workingmen, and the meagre brain
holds Of our pigmy statesmen, and LiliputiAn
editors, these long years past. There can be
no identity, or mutually Of interests between
two parties, when what profits the one 10 loss
toIthe other. If where mankind is ennobled, less
se6shness and more charity we're consumed,
there would certainly be that identity of Inter
ests about which we hear 90 much ridiculous
twaddle, but when We we're guileless infant
our pru lent mater used to say,
''Lf IFS and ands we're kettles and pans,
There d be no use for mixers"
But as ifs and ands are not kettles and pans
the tinkers calling Is still good one; and as
all mankind are more selfish than charitable, the
much talked of identity of interests is all moon
shine. The aim Of an employer is to make him
self rich in the shortest possible time. To do
this be must buy his labor in the cheapest, and
SSH uAo hOV1s ~ SuO uCaEcst m1tAeb, anu any
thing that will overstock his section with unem-
Ployed labor, as the Post very wisely remarks,
will add materially to his profits, and per conse-
quence will be seconded and abetted BY him.
Our policy is to shut our ears against all falla~
cious takers and writer's, who attempt TO con-
vince US that what is an advantage to capital, Is
the same to US, and to wage exterminating war
against it wherever, under the operations of in
iquitOus laws. it has accumulated into the ex-
chequers Of the few. War to the knife-knife
to the hilt and heart No milk and water con-
test, busa united, determined, though systematic
onward march, until in the changes Of time, it
shall have resumed its subservient position, and
have become, as it Of right ought to be, the in
strument BY which labor shall be rewarded, not
crushed: