Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-01-06

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t'0xenEss has passed anactfor the
appointment Of u Commissioners TO
ascertain the causes Of and the rem
edy for the conflict between capital
and labor. The lesson Taught by the
COMMUNISTS In Paris and the recent
demonstration in New York seems
to have awakened In the minds Of
the Radicals sense of the import
ance of Cancellation and blarney rs a
means VT .averting the storm raised
by their own villainous policy. We
hope nothing, however, from the la
bors of the Commissioners, for the
reason that they will be the tools of
the administration and Interested in
concealingr or CLOSING over, its in
strumentality in creating the evils
they are, nominally, appointed to
remove.
Another reason for hoping nothing
from the movement Is, that Congress
and the Com missioners are already
fully aware of the fact, that the Itadi-
cal policy of concentrating capital
m the hands Of the few Is the most
direct blow that can be arrived at
the Interests. of labor. Give 30 one
man, or set Of men, all the lards in
country, and he, or they, can dictate
the price Of labor. To frame legisla-
ton as to give to manufacturing, or
other rings, facilities for accumula-
ting aud concentrating capital and
the same result follows-labor Is at
their mercy, and the lab ,rer must
make up his mind to a life Of poverty
and unremunerated toll, or he must,
as measure OF seff-protection, rise
up, in hisphysical strength and crush
his oppressors or disarm them of the
means Of oppression. We have sup
posed extreme eases, simply for Illus
tration; but every observing man
will admit that this line Of policy,
extended through few more years,
will convert this supposition into
fixed fact.
In most Of countries of Europe the
monopoly Of land and capital by thu
aristocracy has made slaves OF the
laboriug classes, who are just begin
ming 10 see the extent of the wrongs
they have endured and to appreci
ate their physical abilityto punish
their opprcssors even though they
may not be, morally and intellectu
ally, able to adjust their grievances
upon the basis of freedom and justice
The newness of this country and the
wide extent of its territory have
partially, stayed the hand of aristo
cratic oppression, yet the rapidly
with which mammoth Railroad ring
have absorbed the public domain
and the frightful certainty with whicl
Radical policy Is giving to the favor
cd few absolute control over the pric
OF labor, is arousing the skilled me
chanic, the day-laborer and the far
mer rs well AZ every true patriot
of whatever condition--to o sense G
the danger impending over them.
How idle the hope that the Rad
cal leaders will abandon their Ion
settled and cherished policy! an
how futile the expectation that mer
partizan expedients, or electionee
ing clap-trap will disclose the trutl
or strike honestly at the root of til
evil which threatens poverty an
degradation to the toiiing millions
order that the lords and ringmaster
generally, may wallow in wealth an
luxury! The masses are In earnes
and their trembling oppressors deei
il polite to amuse the Whale with
tuw until the harpoon can be drive
home to his vitals. Hence the Con
mission to seek for causes as pateI
rs daylight, and whose pockets a
to he the receptacle of more of Il
hard carvings of the people for who
prstsnsieef good 1t is nominally a
pointed But whatever the Cor
mission may report, the fact will st
remain unchanged, that the on
remedy for existing evils Is to
found In an honest administration
the government and breaking doy
of all the monster monopolies viii
the government now fosters. Spec
legislation Is rarely promotiye. of
general welfare, and nothing sh,
Of n subdivision Of capital and lar
decrease Of dependent laborers a
an increase of competitive employ
can ensure TO labor its just reward
TO effect this end, the tariff must
reduced to revenue standard boz
ties must cease to be paid to grasp
rings, and the public lands reser'
to actual settlers. These things
Ing done, the conflict between CAPT
and labor will adjust itself, with
the intervention of q Radical q
rrcss, aud upon n basis Of equal Q
exact justice. Anything else
quackery.
THE year, 1872, opens upon SCI
of political usurpation, moral depr
iiy and commercial .embarrassm