, 1874-02-01

or meek submiBslon,- they can hardly fau to
come to the conclusion that there il, R1tef ALI
MRs. u. D. W1SKoof-
The Alleged ClacatinC OF "ofRneh--
Tradcs.Unions--A a7an's Right 10
spend His own Money us a2e fies@se@
--Charity.
p. II. Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:
SIR: Gilbert Gurneys" article in last Sun
dav's Tg1BusE ends with shot at ne because
don't happen to kno" more renaolo pa1ues ~
the c]ass named. What information had was
fro,, +te hest authority; there need be none
better.
IF such things have been done in = few cases.
as he cites, these cases aro the o1cepaons
which -
PROVE THE GENERAL HONESTY
of mankind. and arc not to be held responsible
for the present widely-extended financial dill
culties-
We are not the only people who are wearing
ont last years grrat-coata, though we had
thounht before We laid them OF In the spring,
that thew we're rather shabby even then; aud
other than Chicago's Businessmen count their
cnrtency before ordering turtle-soup and Cliquot
at De1monico's or Browns, and finally decide,
with brave effort at doing the inevitable grace
fully TINT they can't afford it, aud feel rather
clad. on the whole, TINT Lent is approaching,
when sackcloth aud ashes will be redeemed from
the vulgarity OF poverty by the saving grace OF
fashion.
If our mechanics have allowed themselves to
be systematically feeced and robbed,-it they
would submit to being hired and discharged On
successive contracts, without pay, until. when
~ r1nva nAkHHneEH-
starvation we're upon themselves and families. -
thew arc ouly entitled to contempt aud the
seyerest censure; but
DO NOT BELIEVE
it WAS very extensively practiced, because do
not believe they are such fools as to admit Of its
| being done.
It would argue ill indeed for their intelligence
| that set Of contractors, to whom shey need be,
md probably in no senso were, inferior, could
| nse them tor tools in this way. don't believe.
either, that they want to assume this position,
or thank any ona for placing them n 30 un-
| favorable q light; aud. After making them OBJ
jccts Of Tidcule, claiming sympathy 1of theln Oh
| such grounds.
WLy not say at once what We MI know !: that
| the number OF people who have no income e1-
cept what thoy derive from day-labor Il At all
times in excess OF work and that now1 When
many branches Of business are virtually at q
stand-still. when individual resources and credit
are taxed to tho utmost, and the citys treasury
| Temporarily depleted, they are su0e1aES, and WILL
| have to suffer, with others?
| TRADEs-uN1oss AND co-oPEnArITE SOCIETIES les,
| cannot furnish them the one thing neeuful-
wall-paid work-when there ia mono; and, when
there is any to bo done. they can get 1t without
| them Any organization which compels lts
members to be economical and se!f-denylng Will
be, IN some sort OF way, benefit; aud un3ona
or Leagues, By demanding from their members
stated weekly or monthly sum which It pro"
| poses to hold as trust-fund until such time 81
1hey may need it, will aid in doing this: but
they are too often unwicldy bodies, whose OBJ
iect is power, and whose expenses absorb these
DEPOSITS as hopelessly as do lnso1yeus Savings
A man can do all this for himself without
their aid il be has tue will to do, aud persists II
doing, what be knows Is right, and what he must
| do II he ever attalns competency. am
strongly in favor OF the latter course, because it
encourages and develops d mans se]t~respect
aud Independence, aad leavea him free md un-
fettered by obligations that may harden int
bands OF iron. Restrictions Of this kind should
be self-imposed, aud, in keeping them Intact
and sacred, man becomes in the fullest sense,
that noblest thing on earth:
| MASTER OVER HMeELF.
Thore may be strength in union in aome cases
but there is danger too. Some one must htanc
control its affairs, and members too, for tina
| matter: aud doubtless some one will hold th
funds Of the society; and human nature viii
cron ont here ns broadly as IN other positions O
raspponaibiiity and trust, where men hay
nsnrnod power aud BETRAYED confidence Thes
hoIies nav succeed well In England or WaIes, ,.nt
anne dav uiod grant it be lar o1!) when tht
hohit into which We have got, Of thinking
nj art;nT for ourselves. is corrected, they ma,
~orIs wall hero.
Money and muscle have ever been opposit
nowers, but
pN''' INTELLECT CONTROLS ROTH.
ro him who nogsesses good fund OF practica
common-sepsc. poverty is as little dreaded a
are the buebears with which our childish imag
| nation peopled the dark, now that We are olde
and andre Reason has lit her torch aud shown us ou
@ fol1y. @
w;ah corresnoudents would all remember, ir
e1nrcss,nr themsolyes, that this question is tn
~ that ahsorbs nubIic attention now,-tha
neon1a n am Unfold their TRIBUNE on Sunday morn
En3 and tnrn to It with more interest than to tn
1ast chanter OF a continued novel; and that the
would tr7 to be honest, giving, as We say, "th
nor;i t,;s dne the French put it more prottily
q 4 cbno,.e s1int So chQnieue ITO every sain
,,;a c.ndfa1 s1 and not say such hard things abou
iIt1 the r;ch
;. x Why should man be obliged to work