The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-12
BREAD VS.. RICE AND RATS.
THE CAPIrALISTs' INTOLER1ET COO
LIE CONSPIRACY.
An ELOQUENT Protest from the Omcial Repre-
sentative Of French Labor In the United
states The only Remedy for the Evil
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rising and growing every day.
Some Massachusetts capitalists, deciding that the
shoemakcrs demanded too much when they claimed
SO day, refused II 20 them. The shoemakers,
Knights of st. Crispin, struck. One sampson, a
capitalist brought Chinese 10 take their places at t23
q month.
This fact, Of little intrinsic importance, is big
with prognostcation Of future evil. China, whose
enormous and uncivilircd population Is accustomed
to q miserable and degrading existence, tho cost Of
which low salary will defray, can pour into this
country such flood OF cheap labor will compel
the workingmen to labor for the same price, or not
TO labor at all the rrst alternative compelling them
to live like their competitors rice and rats
the second compelling them TO starvation. In both
cases lowering the social condition, physically and
morally.
What renders the danger more menacing is the In
credible aptitude OF this Asatc race for initiating
oil kinds OF manual labor; so tina, to morrow 1t will
be easy to import brigade of jewellers, tailors
watchmakers or bakers, as 1t yesterday was to
bring the company OF shoemakers TO Boston.
That Is not all. These immense bands do not
derstand the language Of this country without sup
port. without dependence. they compulssrily de-
pendent on their drivers oyerseers, who dispose
OF them like
FLOCK or ANIMALS.
They are hired in masses and forwarded like cattle
What injustice, what immorality among this mass
OF human matter may there not be No ono knows;
the oxen who 20 from the market TO the slaughter
house.
To-day imported laboring men-to-morrow they
may become electors All that Is needed for that is
n packed majority: and thosc whose metallic infu-
know very well the way 10 act to procure a vote
which will people them with buyers, laborers, and
electors, who will pay, labor and vote at their com
mand.
The Gospel will be propagated by IT, cry the con-
verers, with their usual hypocrisy Heaven has sent
us these yellow men, whom we shall sen back
tbither wbiter than snow
Good folks save many souls you wish. pro-
vided you leave tho bodies unharmed. IL to save
since saving Ia the ideathese yellow souls 1t is ne
cessary TO destroy the white bodies OF our working
men, let the yellow souls 20 10 perdition; they will
What is necessaryiis to follow up tho accomplish
ment OF our destinies by the emancipation Of labor,
which il the object and the end Of the race which
we belong. That is why we systematically op
posed TO all that tends to enslave OF fetter labor
Can labor be free competing with q labor which is
Can the laborer oppose this disloysl and immoral
competition That rs his business to judge.
demanding so many Chinese ut 80 much q head
twentyfour hours after the Chinese are on thetr
OF the wQrkingmen, who have entertained the sill
idea Of afrivingat
BUNAH FELICITY 1T LABOR.
Who constructed the telegraph who constructed
the railroads which have been made instruments Of
ruin and despair TO the workingmen, OF riches and
happiness TO the eapitalistf The workingman
Who possesses themt The capitalist. Who EN-
ploys them against tho work ingmen The capital
let. Such is the universal justice OF the social re-
partition: he who has done all has nothing he who
does nothing has everything.
How can the workingman oppose such competi.
ton, and how can he avoid the terrible effects for his
future and that OF his iamily'
unies In itself all the different parts OF the great
Republic, begins thus: Every man has equal
right TO pursue human happiness.
What door rs there 10 the human hive that opens
to the workingman the way to human happiness, II
not that OF laborf
To freely stipuate the conditions O, his labor OBJ
tain the full value OF the raw material transformed
deducting the general expenses-that is tho only WY
To place any obstacle in the way Of his so doing
| Is unconstitutional. Under the safeguard OF this
| United States, millions OF European workingmen
have come to this country bringing their hanGs and
| them. They have become excellent citizens, good
fathers Of families Believing In the future. they
| shed their blood In its defence as it was BY the
| sweat OF their brows that II arose
Vain hopes and lying promises, Constitution past
and future glory and virtue, men and things. This
| country belongs 10 capital, and not TO labor.
1t Is sufhesent to add some fresh acts OF cupidity
| crumbe.
| And It Is Massachusetts,, whose rapacity brough
the uegroes from Africa, and caused tho disastrous
| war the effects OF which eth suffering from
That today is preparing second catastrophe BY
bringing
THE CHINESE FROM ASIA.
II the Europeans emigrate en- D,dSss to America
well and good they come freely, Individually, ant
knowing what they are about, and they encoun Tel
here their own races, customs and civilization ant
language. But import foreign en- ndSse, who's,
morals rsligion language and civilization are abso
lutely different and who, being isolated, PLACED
AZ the mercy OF schemers, that Is imposing slavery
And whyi Who profits BY slayeryi =.
high time 10 put an end to the intollerabe preten
sions OF the workngmen. II We give them So !.
/ demands.
| Put an end to tho pretensions Of the aborin.
| men And by what righti Who can III theii
| lmitsf
Is il the capitalistsi They are the minority
| Then let us change our institutions. Let de
clare the people, who are made for tho Govern
ment, not the Government. let US declare an arts
tocrscy. and let us end with monarchy to trampl,
| on the vile multitude
Before It goes 40 far as that, we who fought the
South win nght also the North.
| But what IL the use OF al thatf Tho interest o
the capitalist is Identical in this instance with that OF
the workingman.
The SIMPSONS OF Massachusetts may bring all IN,
coolies OF the Celestial Empire to manufacture a,
many shoes as they want. II there Is no one e
wear them, there will be no one to buy them. The
production Is controlled by the consumption.
| VINO 10 the groat consumer II not the working
man
substitute Chinaman who does not consume. You
increase the production and diminish the consunip
ton, and as consequence prepare bankruptcy.
| Your great consumers, the white workngmen, d.
not work, and therefore do not consume.
What made tie prosperity OF this republic-and
have twenty times published It in France-was tn
equality OF social conditions, multiplying the con
sumption, and consequently the wealth OF the com
munty.
In Europe social Inequality compelled inequaiit,
OF consumption, preventing by force OF habit, an,
not OF law. l recognize, for insttucc, by the la
and coat OF the workman, that republican equalit
In America orders from the national labor man
hats and coats us there are citizens.
| Every producer Is n con sumner hence one Of III
main causes OF the American prosperity.
| Massachusetts wants to make an eud OF u that
II perfectly aware OF the ruin IL IL preparing TO
the future OF this country; but It says to itself
| AFTER mo tho dcluge," and there Ia time for M
to make my fortune before it lrrvcS. It's
THE OLD STORY OF TUE ooosB
| that laid the golden eggs.
| such Is the situation and its consequences To sub
init II to exchange bread and meat for rice and rats
| decent clothing for Chinese rags. IL Is ahdicatin
human dignity represented by labor, into tho hand
| of hleness, represented by the capitalist.
And how remedy Ni To punish the poor wretche
| who are innocent OF the wrong they do, and VIII
| do not see that the ameoraton promised them
supremsly unlustr No one thinks Of that for
| moment
| The men In ONCE like Oakley Hall want tho Gov
| ernment to be made accountable for II.
| A monarcbical idea, which by making tho Gov
eminent responsible tends TO give 1t powers in Pre-
portion with its responsibility, thus making
| monarchca or despOtc.
Its the system OF New York, and VIC are about l.
see its bad effects.