The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-08-28
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

ssOn IN MS speech on Monday last, When he
deprecated arraying labor against capital, 10
timating that that uas the policy OF the Re
publican party. The ayowed policy Of the
party he represented is to crush labor VITA
what they call tae Intelligence and wealth or
the State. The conservative party is array
ing itself against labor, proscribsng it, and IS
doing all in its power to drive it from the
State. IF it succeeds in November next, it
will force thousands Of abled bodied laborers
from Virginia soil, for the sectional spirit
that success will impersonate will keep away
capital and prevent the development of our
industries, by which alone labor can thrive.
There is not mechanic or laboriog man in
Virginia who is not directly interested 10 the
asce ndency of liberal national spirit in this
State, by which intelligent immigration and
capital will be invited to our territory. And
that policy that gives encouragement and re-
muneration to the mechanic and iaborer, fur
nishes consumers for the products Of the far
mers, and in this way all the industrial ele
ments of the State are bepeftted. These are
the classes who are vitality interested in this
issue. What is uninvested capital but ty-
rant over the aboring man, the mechanic and
the farmer? Where is the capital of many
of the wealthy men Of Staunton and Augusta
| county, who are supporting the conservative
ticket? Is it invested in Industrial enter.
prises, by which the mechanic, the laboring
man and the land owner will be advantaged?
Look around and see.
Let a liberal, healthy national sentiment
be proclaimed by the result in Virginia, and
we will speedily realize the benefits of the in
vestment of the surplus capital oe the north
in manufactures, public improvements and
such enterprises as will give employment to
labor. Then it will be that capital and labor
will march hand in hand for the common good.
But this will not be as things now stand and
will remain, if sectonaism triumphs Capt.
tai lock ed up in bonds and stocks will starve
labor out and drive it from our BORDERS. 1t
is capital waging deadly war against labor
and yon can make nothing else out Of it,
This fatal policy can only be broken down by
breaking down the conservatjvesparsy, which
is prominently sectional, and opening up the
channels of ipgfess for foreign capital. which
will encourage, remunerate and elevate labor,
and thus give market for the products of
the soil. Let the mechanic, the laborer and
the farmer think of this. There is sound
logic and philosophy, as we'll as indisputabe
truth in it.
Who are the leaders at every court house
of this party that is thus in deadly strife with
labor? The lawyers. And how do they live
except at the expense of the poor man and
laborer? They are the pampered agents of
the blcated bondholders, and stop at nothing
short Of the last cent of the laboring man
| Who are the sworn enemies of The bankrupt
law, and throw every obstacle in the way of
its benefits being realized by the ruined deb
tor, who only seeks to save his family from
being turned out homeless, but these same
lawyers? And why? Because it stops their
briefs, their bills in chancery, their case fees,
which the debtor would have to pay, did not
the bankrupt law afford an avenue of escape.
1t is dstateful to US to make these plain
statements. Self-deteuce is our excuse e.
These gentlemen constitute the fuglemen Of
the conservative party, and as such hesitate
not to denounce on every occasion as untrue
to Virginia every man who does not allow
them to think for him. We believe that we
are pleading the cause Of the people, that we
are true to them, and SO believing, we mean to
use every legitimate argument to arouse them
| to realization of their interests and those
CT the wealth creating elements of the State
What unblushing impudence in these gentle
men to assume that they are only true and
these who act with them, and every one else
untrue to Virginia. because they may honest
ly arrive at different conclusion as to the
best policy for the State. It was the Phari-
see who osteutatatously proclaimed his supe-
riority in every thing to the poor Publican,
and it was the Publican who was accepted
and the Pharisee that was rejected by the
great Searcher of hearts, the despised Naza-
rene, the poor mans friend and companion
in the days Of his earthly pilgrimage. The
moral of this parable has not lost It's force
and application.
|
FIRST MEETING.
On Monday last Col. r. W. Hughes, Re-
publican candidate for Governor, and Gen.
James L. Kemper, conservative candidate
for the same Office, met in joint discussion at
Warrenton. Virginia. From lengthy re-
port in the Richmond Dispatch, partizau
in its tone, we gather that Col. Hughes dis
cussed the wants Of Virginia, and the best
policy to be adopted to secure her material
development. Gen. Kemper declined to
follow the line Of argument introduced by