The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-11-26
COLUMBIA, S. G..
Wednesday Morning, Nov. %. 1873.
Mutually Of Landed Capital and
Labor.

lima who are, above all others. interested
in economical government. One is the
GLASS of the land-holders and taxpayers;
the other, that of the laborer in the
fields. The interest OF these classes is
fundamentally the same. The owner OF
land, buildings, implements and stock
requires the brawn and sinew, the habit
and facility of work in the laborer, to
realize fair profit, and derive U cum
Portable living from his landed interest.
The poor man, who lives by the sweat of
his brow. in good honest work, is enti.
tied o his reward. It should secure to
him and family sustenance, clothing,
lodging and other comforts of life, with
u surplus for the benefit Of his growing
family, to be applied to their education
and moral culture. He cannot get it
unless he is on good terms with the pro-
prietor. These clnsses comprise mainly
the two races in the State. It is true,
there are proprietors who are colored
men, and who employ the labor OF
others, in addition to their own. on
their farms. There are men Of the
white race whose circumstances are
humble and who toll with their hands
at the plow. Not all colored men arc
mere laborers; not all white men are
landed proprietors. But the classifica-
tion into land owners and laborers is, rs
we have said, nearly identical with the
races of white and black people.
The connection between them would
appear to be close and intimate, and
their interests not dissimilar. Whatever
jarring there may have been between
them, is due TO the fuult Of neither.
Third parties, who male their living by
the votes of tho colored people, who
hold the Offices and manage the jobs,
reap the profits of this alienation. AS
long as they can keep up disagreement
between the producing classes, repre-
:senting respectively land and labor.
they have rich field for their special
talent of manipulation. Are they erti
tied to make a living in this way? Can
the two great interests of the State,
personified in laborer and land owner,
any longer afford to be preyed upon III
this style? Their identity of interest in
business should be established. The
more it is calmly considered, the clearer
will it appear. The same identity is
plain also in political matters. The
planter who owns land aud the tenant
who works it, or tho laborer who owns
his own snug farm, and has the conf
dence of his community, may meet with
out prejudice, and with good effect upon
their own special and the general iute-
rests. in the legislative hall. The ac-
.quaintauce which one has of business,
the honest impulses and good inten
tions of the other, would harmonize
well together.
The great agricultural interest is rous-
ing itself to assert its rights all over the
country. 1t has spoken in no doubtful
tones in the recent elections in the
North. west. There it has met and over
thrown the foe of monopoly and exces-
sive cost Of transportation. Here its
immediate business would seem to be,
to harmonize with the labor which it
employs, to settle the terms of their
association on fair and living basis, so
as to result in mutual benefit. Confi-
dence should spring up and grow bn-
tween the two, and be expressed in
their agreement and good feeling in
legislation and government. and in the
good order Of society, OF which they
constitute the solid foundations. Let
them unite to establish and carry on
good government, to reduce its ex.
penses, lower its taxes and lop off its
abuses. Let them join hands in dis
countenancing jobbers. plunderers and
thieves, aud in bringing them to con-
dign punishment. Let them work 10.
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