The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-03

WV S'osSSS-tue pIOuuCeIs, Huu uuCInel,
who handle the products, while there IL o
class of laborers embraced by a large ma
jorlty of the race, far exceeding the class
Of handlers who live upon the wealth ac-
cumulated by the trading III these products.
In early history we read of a score Of
slaves who brought 10 their master the pro-
ducts Of their work, and he absorbed the
labor Of hundreds Of men, This is the case
as applied 10 our own affairs.
The stupendous result Of this power of
capital over labor ia shown all over the
globe. OF these products of man the labor
ers have had no greater share than to keep
the machine In running order.
When all take the fact that If every able
bodied man works three homs per day. the
result of that labor is sufficient, not only
TO keep himself, but 10 give every inhabit-
ant the necesaaries. comforts and even the
Injuries of life, and look over the com
munity in which you live and find large
majority who are Obliged to toll daily for
the neccssarics Of life, you can see what
large proportion there is 10 enjoy these ben
Gifts other than the producers thcmscl yes.
Then you can ask why is it that all are not
provided with ample means for higher cul-
turc. An instance is provided in the case
Of Great Britain, where every laboring man
provides. with his own hands, NOT only for
himself, hut in the ratio as eighty to one
eighty times his own labor. What is the
product Of the manual labor IL that en-
pirc? Equal to the combined population
of two worlds like ours. Arc all its people
in comfortable circumstances The FAC,
about this is truly astonishing; that only
800, 600 Of their entire empire are in com
Portable circumstances. Here the same
fact is the case, though not on so broad a
scale. The value of days labor there is
worth no more now than in the time of
| King Edward First. Here in Rutland, the
mechanic commands $3.50 or $500 per
day, while he can feed his family no
better than an hundred years ago. Yet
| the products of the American people,
| through the aid of machinery. are cQuiva-
lent to one hundred and fifty millions of
/ people
/ The question then arises, what is the re-
suit? The inventive genius of our people
has but just begun, yet the laborng classes
are no nearer comfort than one hundred
years ago. Shall we arrive at the time
when men shall become mere machines ?
Shall the great class of laborers be dis
missed The laborer gets hut little of the
benefit and the two extremes are farther
apart than they were one hundred wears
ago.
Pick up any product Of labor and trace
ii to the consumer and see if you can tell
where tie profit goes. In Illinois and Iowa
they burn their corn for fire, the farmer
reads in the papers that the corn he is sell
ing for IS cents bushel is selling IN
New England for so cents. Where
goes the 81 cents? On the other
htnd the laboter and mechanic in
New England wonders how he is to sup
port his family when corn is selling for 50
cents Place these side b. side, then re-
member that this same corn which is laid
down in the eastern market for that price
can he transported and pay all expenses of
the same for 10 cents hushcl and then tell
me where the balance goes. Give 30 cents,
for instance, for the picl<ipYs and stealings.
Who has got it You find the same start
ling fact in regard to any article transpor-
TED, he it even Il paper Of pins. The same
in that case is multiplied and still growing.
Every article used pays to somebody not
only 100 per cent but oven as high as ten
hundred pei cent. IT aught of truth is in
this ii is seen that articles used for neces-
saries and for ornamentation are subjected
to-enormous taxation. This is the system
conducted by capital.
We will not say the laboror can dictate
TO those who hold the capital but there
should be some reciprocity. The capitalist
needs the laborer as much as the laborer
needs the capitalist. The only thing needed
is proper relation between the two. Ii
has been 50 always, and is the same in
political power. When two, four or five
men own line Of transportation they die
tate the price we have to pay for the arti-
Gle transported, and from the producer
alone comes the expense to run the line.
He pays tribute to the distant market, pays
toll for building up the prosperity Of rail.
road or other large corporations.
While capital shall control the lines there
is no hope for the producer or consumer,
| unless you can understand and consider the
political relation you have 10 the capitalist,
And now We come TO that part. In what
we have TO say regarding political men we
have no reference to Vermont politicians.
Whatever we produce with honor and
glory be it said Vermont is Il poor place to
produce the genuine politician rs we know
him in 1878. (Applause) What is your po-
litlcal relation to capital
pancllcl to the right of life and liberty
is the right of the laborer TO the products
of his toll. This is not recognized upon
the statue book, but in the book of eternal
justice. 1t is m inalenable right which
no one can take away In proportion to
that man who takes up my products and
uses it with his capital, the contest be-
tween the laborer and those who sit in idle
ness, is the case of the old feudal lords to
whom the people cried out GLOW long
must this bondage last, O lord, how long" ?
1t rs the same with you. You have this
| question to answer. You have other means
to fight it other than by force of arms, and
that means is the ballot box. You
can by study and investigation.
by associating with the political
world, find out all the various qualifications
of political maneuyering. Once the people
choose their men to fill the office. To-day
the old process is reversed The men elect