The New York herald., 1871-10-27
4 FEMIEITE PNILIpPIC.
The Head Better Than the Hands-Anna Dicsin-
son VS.. The Trades Unions.

Anna Dickinson lectured last night, before small
audience at Stenway Han, upon the quarrel OF
labor and capital she began by saying that IL Is
said that the condition q the American aborer has
iaien below tnat Of the iab0ring man in England.
Let us see. During q late strike In England
the men suffered oil but death for eight
cents q day advance, which eight centa
made their total wages sixteen cents.
late strike in this country organized for raising
the mems wages from So so per day to 81 so. Now,
III the face of this which is better on Whoever
says that man with 81 SO per day is In danger OF
dying in the po0rhouse insults the common sense OF
his hearer, ana whoever says that man with
schoohouses oil around him need bring up his
children In ignorance makes as great mistake In
this land. where there is a great deal too much leg
isauon, working men are told to redress their
wrongs at the ballot box. What is the result OF
this Nobody has right to forbid man TO sell
silk ut 500 yard, but there is law that forbids
our silk merchant to get over his counter and
strangle the man who wont pay his price. Who
does thisf The trades unions do 1t all over the land.
There is q great deal Of taiK about the starving
miners. Investigation shows that the lowest price
paid to the miners in q certain quarter where this
talk was current was $73 per month and the high
est 800. and the average was 81, 800 per year-a
higher average than is received by either Of the
three learned professions.
HAVE MEN RIGHT
to hinder other men from putting their own price
on their own la3orf When q man Joins trades
union he puts himself in q state Of servude The
price OF his work. the hours Of work, dictated.
lie Is no longer his own MASTER Here is a man
whose work is worth S. q week. here is another
man whose work Is worth $50 week, and the
union puts them both upon the level Of $50 week.
Suppose there Is Q shop and 500 men in it. There Is
q man skilled and industrious in their midst
and the employer is asked TO dismiss him because
he does not belong TO the association being able to
earn far more than he could inside. The employer
is obliged to dismiss him at last and he is driven
from shop to shop, and at last leaves the country
and goes back 10 Germany. This case Is q real
on M Win Is s od the ne and he es
union Is the most autocratlc organization that the
Here IS a printers snop, hundred printers;
there Is the foreman. man enters, well
dressed and wen @ to do; do another a enters thin,
Is accepted because he Is member OF the
union the second asks and is refused, and he is not
OF tine union. He did not work as many years as
required before certain time; yet he Is good
snreaes are ali IN va for ourh the eeman
remembers that he Is man and gives MIN work,
hundred men interfere ere and heis driven away. This
A BRUTAL TYRANNY
and not an effort to get justice from capital but an
prisons eighty-two per cent Of the criminals come
from the ranks OF the unskled laborer-
the direct tendency Of the trades unions is to swell
the ranks OF criminals There IS nothing so costly
the soul from the mire up to where it can look God
IN the face nothing can equal skilled labor. Work
is "a anG to + the con, eoav no are s
labor OF convcts in competition with honest men
The speaker here went into the subject OF the Hea.
then Chinee," eOquently taking up the cause OF the
transplanted Ceestials. On the Pacific coast, said
she there are thousands OF acres rich and waste for
the want OF men 10 cultivate them. Orchards are
wasting for the want OF men TO gather the fruit;
minerals are lying untouched in The heart Of the
and see a multitude Of workngmen men S1Ss receive q
snipload OF Cinnamon win clubs till the streets
W Wacome that % cnrs,iantS accosas to neahensm
This scene In San Francisco Is the legitimate result
OF tne e @ M ana por nS INV
man and the eloquent advocate of human rights in
In North Adams , The employers
ten times as much as they could at home,
ton This tells its own story. we nave schools in
all Departments to develop skill, except in the ranks
the argument Of the union the assertion s ion i, mas been
made tnat there Is an aristocracy and that
that the poor support the rcn These statements are
false: Are the hands as much value to the head
loses ss snd his ns head ssrves bo sPr ba
hands make yourself heads. The hardest working
men in the country are the richest men, They die
In their prime. You use your weapon-musce;
they use their weapon nerve, and they use 1t
mercilessly. II man Is rich In America he
Is no class or the poor and no class Of the rich.
There are few rich men and plenty OF poor men.
1t is not true that can't work over eight hours
day without damage No human being ever
made himself power unless he was willing to give
stopped to count hours. 1t is an inequality
that one man will be rich and another poor
to the end. grant it. But 1t is no more wrong
than that one man should be six feet and another
four feet in height. No legislation, no REFORM can
ever succeed in producing equality Of condition in
this world. There may be success in bursting so
ciety asunder, but the poor viii be left poorer oy the
wreck. Let there be cooperation, whereby the
strong shall help the weak and the weak the weaker
till all men are brethren.
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