Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-02
THE LABOR QUESTION.

In so far rs the conflict between labor
and capital is concerned, we rejoice, as
q poor man, with nothing but our daily
and poorly requited labor for q means
of support, that it has begun to be agi.
tated. But we want no lately liberated
slave from Ireland, no recently imported
Cornishman, DO imperfectly naturalized
Cauuck to set himself up a. our in
,tructor. The theme is too wide, too
deep, too intimately connected with all
that is the most intricate in political
economy for that. We have i%nsinuated
what we have concerning certain nation
alities with u eyes open. The decent
treatment; the political compliments;
the petting, in short, that the Irish,
Cornish, Welch and Canadian laborers
who, seeking immunity from simulated
serfdom at home, have sought better
wages and better conditions in this free
Republic, have, falling upon what they
naturally regard as better than their
merits deserve, spoiled them. They are
fools enough to think that the cowardics
which grows out Of the timidity of cap
ital and the duplicity of politicians will
sustain or, what is the same thing,
tolerate their extravagant requirements
and unlawful excuses.
The agitations which have been appa.
rent all over tho country, and which
have assumed to themselves the name Of
"Labor Congresses" have all had their
origin in something better than the
grovelling, brutal demonstration which
resulted in the driving of the Cinnamon
from the Virginia and Carson Railway
works. Capital has become aggressive
and insolent-at the East. Tho laboring
men there hare occasion to murmur.
Their misfortune is that their protests
have been delivered through resolutions
written and in the interest of insinua-
tirg demagogues. But there is no hon
esty in the labor question of the Pacific
so far as it is %enunciated by coal
beavers, whose only object in getting to
port is to get drunk, and by quartz
who play billiards, buy whisky
and cigars and pay their assessments to
II Miners Unions" after settling or for
to settle their Saturday night
board bills. rive differ somewhat with
The Appeal in this. A large number Of
The members of the Unions are not
.menabls to these charges, and they
.ook no part in the mob last Wednesday.
ED. Nsws.1 We say this while fully
aware of tho fact the 'laboring men of
The Pacific Coast are as much entitled
10 q decent consideration as any class
Of men. But why should they forfeit
heir claims to that good reward, with
out which the poor man, whose hands
and muscle and skill are his only cspi-
.al, is simply an objsct of charity2
There is q better time-if any worth
.ousidering-at hand. Four dollars a
lay gives us one, at least, to save. Lot
as make homes, we poor men, while the
and is yet cheap and the laborer fully
Of his hire. Do not let US waste
bur present earnings in devising means
or the exclusion Of any other class or
nationality Of men but let US, on the
contrary, remembering that we and our
have a future before US, live to
.'xemplify that this free, broad America,
s wide enough to warrant . home to all
Who bravely strive for and deserve il,
md whose minds have notbeen narrowed
lown to the niggardly creed that one
mans misery is necessary to another
thrift. "Tbe dignity Of labor"
s far above the appreciation Of any man
II set of men who think that theirs are
be only hands which God has shaped
or honorable toll, and theirs the only
aims worthy to receive the just reward
{ labor done.-Carson appeal.