New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-26


to better his condition, as these British
laborers are leaving theirs. When they strike
at home it is for substantial reason. 1t Is
because their wives and children cannot exist
upon the scanty wages of labor. 1t is be-
cause hunger is in the home and nakedness
and hopelessness--it is often because there Is
no home left for the wretched family. 1t is
because the complications of society are such
that political power is almost monopoly In
the hands of the Oppressor Ii is because the
land tenures are such that it is almost lmpOs-
sible for the poor man to secure the narrOwest
freehold 1t is because at best production, III
the best of seasons, falls behind consumption,
and because a short crop means famine and
possibly pestllence.
America is sought by the European emigrant
because America is an asylum from sorrows,
wants, and disadvantages like these. And yet
the English farmer upon bis arrival at Castle
Garden may encounter one OF our False DEM
agoeues for we have such, who will impart to
him the discouragng intelligence that he has
simply fallen from the frying-pan into the NE
that the farmers of the broad and smiling
plains of the West are the hopeless prey OF
monopolies and corporations more Unsuitable
cruel, and oppressive than the landlords OF the
old country which these refugees have thought
themselves fortunate in being able to abandon.
For we too, Notwithstanding the intelligence
and general prosperity of our democracy, have
our False DemagOgues, wide-awake leaders OF
the credulous and unthiDking, who are magni-
flying little difficulties and turning them to their
own personal profit. They are men who talk but
do not toll, who spout but do not spin, and
who fare sumptuously every day at the ex-
pense of those who may fare far otherwise
they are men who do the talking and the
organizing for the strikes while Others undergo
the wants and the discOmforts-they are men
whose sole business it is to disarrange instead
of harmonzing, and to widen as much as
possible the mischievous breach between
Capital and Labor. They know the power of
association, and instead of employing it
wisely and honestly, they use it for the worst
of purposes, which is to keep others idle and
to suspend production. Their business is to
make the most of the present, with little or
no regard for the future, and they would fam
persuade all to be as thriftess and imprudent
as they are themselves.
Mr.. Arch and his English co-laborers believe
in Agricultural Strikes; and, if we are not
misinformed, have turned them to the adyan-
tage of the farm-labOrer. In America, such
strikes are unnecessary and almost an impos-
sibility. We have too much labor and too
much land in too many hands to admit of
their being undertaken to advantage; and,
moreover, the material for such a movement
is too widely difIused. The refugee from
country in which he could never acquire real
prOperty-hardly enough even, at the last, to
be buried in-will find us with more land
than we can cultivate, to be acquired to
sufficient extent by any one who is willing to
work, upon almost nominal terms. To obtain
the information which they may need, and to
impart it to his incoming countrymen, so that
they may proceed safely and intelligently, will
doubtless be the useful work of the True En-
glish Demagogue.