The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-03-30
FEDERATION OF LABOR.

To federate and notify the workingmen's
societies of center Ike Paris, or even of
nation like France, is certainly some
thing. To marshal such a federation in
line with those of England, Belgium, Ger
many and Switzerland is still more. But
it is not enough 1t will not be enough
until our solidarity is universal that is to
say, when every corporation in every
country shall be in fraternal cGmmunica-
ton with every corporation of every other
country.
In the struggle that is more and more
asserting itself between capitalists and
workingmen, the efforts of all the latter
combined will not be too much against
the formers concentrated strength. So
long as the two terms of our social equa-
ton are not reversed, so long as labor
does not command capital, there can be
possible neither social stability nor polit-
ical security.
THE DANGER IN AMERICA.
Here in America, more than elsewhere,
the cause pregnant with immediate interest.
For our country presents the strange con-
trast of slave labor in a free nation. Po-
litically and theoretically free, the work
ingman is socially and practically a serf
of the capitalist, whose private power
and public influence steadily Increase
Not content with controlling the market,
he controls politics, and already wakes
! strong enough to supersede our national
polity by that of his own interests.
So long as salaries were sufficiently
high to prevent workingman from per
ceiving the immense wrong perpetrated
at his expense by the capitalist in the rep
arition of wealth, all seemed right Care
less by habit, the workingman lives from
hand to mouth. While salary gives him
a living he easily forgives and forgets.-
His situation now is by no means what it
was.
By high rates of salary the moral level
of the population is sustained, as well as
the full tide of immigration, which will al
ways flow toward the promise of subsis-
tence and comfort. By remunerating wa
ges no less than by immigration the ma
terial prosperity Of the country is deVel-
oped. Our national and social equation
therefore, must be reduced to this. Sala-
ary, or share in the repantion of wealth
Is to immigration as prosperity is to the
nation
The capitalist who interposes himself
between producer and consumer, and who
nothing himself, takes advantage of every
thing, the general welfare requires thai
such parasite should be made less mis-
chlevous by being deprived of his power
for evil What becomes of society where
! workingmen, endued by law with freedom
, of speech, press and association, reckon
3 their number under the pressure of mis-
cry.
> In Europe the problem is different. Tn,
workingman there is both politically anC
socially a slave. There the oppressor
have been logical, and before they robbeC
/ the laborer they took care to handcut
{ him. Hence in America we have neithe
millions of chassepots nor thousands o
gen d'armes to slaughter people for tn
crime of claiming their own.
1 THE TENDENCY TO IMPERIALISM.
What will become of our society, if, af
? ter grinding labor to powder and ruininl
! the workingman, it shall try to keel
I both in social dependence VIII it no
be obliged to initiate Europe and spen,
its money for police and soldiers =? In or
der to protect a perniclous arlstocracy
G will not society be obliged to destroy it
: free institutions, the basis of nationa
s grandeur and prosperity? What the
O | will be the SEQUEL? To needful union wi
succeed civil war; to truthful labor, steril
: contest for bread; to wealth, misery;
unity, division. Then once more the mon
archial system will lift its fallen head
4 is easy even now to discern the beginnin
. of the end. What is our eight-houl
!, movement? What is our fight agaln'
, the conspiracy law? What our. strike
cooperative societies and meetings? UI
q der each and all, in an abnormal form
n break forth the same aspirations, the san
: suffering and grievances that have bee
4 so much struggled against in EuroPea
le society.
sr WARNING.
Workingmen, before it is too late yc
must organize The best of revolution
are those which are accomplished gradl
to ally and silently. Let US create a societ
q within society. What better example
to needed than that given to US by the tV
{ French worklngmen? There are now tv
~ representatives of France in the Unite
To States. One was appointed by Lou
~ Napoleon to represent idleness Heresid
as in Washington. The other has been ele
of ted by workingmen to represent labor
et He is in New York Do l care for n
al colleague at Washington MOI RePr
sentatives of past and future, we are a