The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-04
evening state aullraal.
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY a, 1871.
Tho Complaint of Labor Against Cap


The Complaint of Labor Against CAP
Labor asserts that under the presen
condition of affairs it is deprived of all ii
rights. The free use of the means whic
nature has so beautifully supplied 70
making it productive are denied it. CAPT
tai monopoizes the land and the sea.
wrests the land from the tller, and en-
crosses the trade between nations. 1t mo
nopolizes the business of the world, ant
forces Labor into its service, at its OWL
terms. By monopolizing the land and ex'
torting unrighteous rents, it prevents mer
of small means from engaging in business
The great fortunes of the world are bull,
out of the labor of Others, thus proving
that the laborer does not get the
righteous profit Of his labor. The idle,
the extravagant, non-producers of all
sorts are supported by the hard toll of men
who are daily robbed to support these
parasites. All these injustces labor COM
plains of, and demands to have removed
but the great complaint that it makes is
that it is denied education. Other than
the rudimentary education Of the common
schools is denied the workingman, and
even that, while ostensibly set before him
by the State, is in reality denied him for
want OF time to spare from the struggles
of bread-getting. If he gets the rudiment-
airy learning of the free school, he has lit
tie or no chance of more mental culture
and rational amusements are sacrificed
to the absolute necessities of flood and
shelter and clothing. The remuneration of
manual labor will not supply the means
for physical sustenance and mental culture.
If supplemental education were offered
him free of cost, the average laborer could
not avail himself of it, because want of
leisure and fatigue of body would hinder.
Labor complains that it is in this position.
simply by reason of the usurpation by
capital of its rights. Eating, drinking,
sleeping, clothing, and shelter arc not
enough to satisfy the workingmen who
build the fortunes of our Divesess They
want time for intellectual improvement;
that leisure which is necessary to enable
them to live up to the best of their possi-
bilities. 500 ~ s..y.sV 500 IN --ass
1t is the boast of America that her
working population is better paid than
that of any other nation. Yet compute
the pay of laborng men in the United
States, and how little margin is left them
for obtaining anything more than the ne
cessaries of a most frugal livelihood
What chances does it give them for hope
of putting their children into better po-
sition than they themselves occupy2 Were
it not for the vast area of our land we
should now be in the condition of the
pauper nations of Europe. 1t is to avert
this catastrophe that the efforts of labor
reformers are drecled,-N. 7. Star.
The Manufacturer and Builder INDUCES
in some statistics of really curious interest
We give specimen; fsThe average yearly
sewage of a city is estimated at couple
of loads per capita, or, for New York city
and environs, four millions of loads an
nually, estimating the population of a
circle thirty miles in diameter, Of which
the City Hall may be taken as the centre,
at two millions. For twenty millions of
people, then, this annual manurial loss is
equal to forty millions of loads, which, in
order to maintain the equilibrium, must he
replaced by artificial products. AT present
valuation, taking the best attainable aver
ase, 'ueso .o,ooo.oog INNS nv. III III s.mas,
Souu :ney W ,e.Ia'a - ~ 20 e,eo 200 "o oon
D'ins ~ '',1 Geo 600 600 .Ov,uVo,ooo,
a mas'e ~ $1o eoo "oo "oo 'o' .en t1a,s
qas' ~ ~,,ooo'Uo ~. s sn@u
nan tne ainuuas ~ me na',ona: ueo.;
TOT iur'ler liiu :. ae'on '''Ao 'no o,'les anu
lowns pouring 'h m sewas ~ an.o 'ne iluu
SOU Ilsel, irou Troy ~, ~ ene s T WIN
PoPu nnn oo VI ioar ilisi'lons. Luz .iesuis
Is o,ooo'ooo ioaas - nianeslal plouuo0
eInp''eo annualiy lns1 'ia' s'ps'I wa'ea-
Way auu saiusa a. on oo Pl noo no'o'nS ~
this seo',on' Az p1usoov,ooo 80 'na''
making an ueuuc.loh ior'lho,ease ol poPu-
la',o5' .i,e iiuuson risei aione may oe
tSa na,ns nf ooo nno drng tba naet
thirty years.
"rhe subject is equally interesting from
another standpoint. Ordinarily, one load
of manure is equal to the production OF
two bushels OF wheat or three bushels OF
corn; 100000 loads, or the annual
drift into the Hudson, being equivalent
to 100000 bushels of wheat or "a
100000, bushels Of corn; or, again,
pnuivaIpDt tn the nutrition of either in no.