Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-15

Wonderful Events Of the Day-NeW
York ReVOlutiOnary-Greeley's Grow
ing POWer-What "a Statesman Sees
and Tells.
NEW YORK, June 10, 1872.
EDITORS APPEAL-This is ~theseventh
week Of the strike, otherwise called the
long strike, Of the workingmen of New
York. A grand procession Of these
men took place to-day, exhibiting a de-
gree of numerical strength command
ing the attention Ofevery thinking man.
We saw the procession march through
the BoweTy this morning, and were
struck with a noticeable feature of the
I demonstration to-wit: The respectable
appearance, together with the good or
der of nearly all the strikers. There
were bands and banners but not much
enthusiasm. The German and French
element marched under the blood-red
flag of the Internationals, one of their
bands playingth the Marsellaise Hymn, the
men giving their voices to swell the
chorus of that revolutionary compost
ton. But there was no response from
the sidewalks, and gradually the voices
ceased, leaving to the instruments of the
band the burden of the famous ca ira
of 1892.
NEW YORK is NOT PARIS.
The eye-single-to-busines idea of our
cOuntrymen is a terrible damper to pop
ular demonstrations here in Gotham.
However much eur people, North and
South, sympathize with the working
mentor are we not a nation of work
ingmen?-of all classes the doctrines of
the InteTnatiOnals, and the revOlutiona-
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flourish in this country. Hence, any eff
fort looking to a redress of grievances
outside of the due process of the law,
anything tending to the establishment
of a reformation in the price of wages
however meritOriOus and needed, out
side of the necessary legal forms or the
pOwerO of moral suasiOn, instantly arouses
the opposition of this people. This was
illustrated the other day when James
Brownlee was shot by the strikers for re-
fusing to leave his employer and join
them, the press of this city at once de-
nOunced the homicide, severely CRITICS.
ing the action of the strikers in
the premises, and counselled the
most prompt and decisive action
on the part OF the police to suppress any
attempt at a further violation Of the law.
This had a good effect, and since then
there has been no violence attempted by
the men on q strike. The question Of
regulating the hours of labor is a nice /
me-. The scale of intelligence among
the working classes has been raised of
late years. There can be no question
upon the proposition that the working
men are the foundation of society. The
creators, builders and producers of capt.
tai are the labOrers in the various fields
of industrial pursuits. That there is dig
nifty in labor no sane man will deny.
That il should be amply compensated,
and a fair days work bring a fair days
wages, is equally evident. There is in
spired authority for the axiom that ''the
labOrer is worthy Of his hire" Nor will
any man Of sense controvert the idea
that time should be given the laboring
man not only for rest but for recrea-
ton and intellectual improvement
hours for reading, for study, for
intelligent research, as well as
hours for hard knocks. These facts
being admitted, general sympathy for
the strikers would seem to follow as a
sequence. But when men at
TO enforce as a rule that which
initiates against the inherent right of
every man to work for what he pleases,
and as long as be pleases, it is plain that
are not in the right
PATH TO REFORM.
To engender a spirit of antagonism
q man, or set of men, merely
because he or they are capitalists, or to
preach the doctrine of war between cap
ital and labor, is essentially m~ischievous.
Capital and labor are brothers in the
business of life. The relation between
them should be that of mutual good will.
But who are the laborers? Certainly a
great many thousands more than the
trades unions now on a strike. Not
only the laborers in thefield, Or the me-
chanic in his shop, but eUery man who
earns his bread by the cunning of his
hand, or the labor Of his brains, is a la
DOrer. How many thousands and hun
lreds of thousands Of these are hard
workers, badly paid, badly fed, badly
who never dream OF strikes!
Why, these gentlemen-strikers are, in
heir trades, the best paid laborers in the
world, receiving four and i've dollars a
lay for what men get from sixty cents
a dollar and a. quarterl AS
hey walked along to-day, arms
they had every indication Of
thrift that good looks, respectable and
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.enances can give. These gentlemen
remember the hundreds Of thou |
sands of poor clerks, messengers, shop
girls, sewing-girls-aye, and for that
matter professional men, who each in
MS or her way work hard as any of these
strikers, and still have much to do
10 KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER.
Are not our American mechanics a
title too sensitive on this question of
compensation? Certainly there is no
oOdy of men in the country who are
more respectable, more influential or /
off as a class than they, and yet {
hey are the only ones who excite the
ympathy of the general public for their ,
This cry against capital is I
unworthy a true American citizen. The
worker of to-day is the capitalist of to-
morrow. We have not and never will
any other ~aristocracy in this coun-
ry save an ~aristocracy based upon in
diligence and merit. All others NAV ,
in the sunlight of their own vanity !
)nly TO render themselves contemptibie :
n the eyes Of all true men and women. !
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