New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-18
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class Of immigrants. 1t is those who cas-
all other citizenship behind them, ant
come to america, determined 20 make i
their home. These last love America
they praise its institutions. mix with it.
people. and praise it in their letters ant
editorials sent to Europe. We profit i'm
mensely by this last immigration. Il has
brought thousands of brave and homes
! men, and millions OF European capital
So, if the same freedom be employed tc
publish newspapers. expressing. some
times-as the Cuban organ opinions
which would be Ga pita! crime in the eoun
try to which they relate; 0, when, as il
the case Of the Bee. they assail the char
acter and institutions Of Americans bort
and bred. or duly naturalized, we pardon
the abuse Of hospitality. in consideration
of its predominant: blessing Of free speech
and free press.
! The Bee discusses the labor troubles
from q Partisan standpoint. The author
ity is undoubted. 4 country which had
! its armed thousands and it's organized in.
cendiaries. all animated by a determine
ton to have a larger share Of their own
labor than was allowed them. furnishes
very proper professors to lecture q tepub.
lican people Oh what they ought to dc.
So the Bee explains that the labor war
IN New York is !nstigated by the Com
munists Of Europe. 1t. by an easy digres-
sion. charges that this same sentiment has
melted the colored people to resistance in
the parishes Q: Louisiana. These LAHORE
ey, are found in the wrong for demanding
q larger share Of their labor. because It is
assumed by the Be. that they are :ely
well paid and have plenty to eat. Thus:
That people who want employment:
and bread should display discomfort and
turbulence is too natural to astonish any
one: but that those whose labor is well re.
Enumerated should engage in a strike and
employ force to obstruct others az work can
only be explained as the stt>c: 9: 3 PERM.
cicus pTopasandism.
This is precisely the question both
here and in Europe. Joseph Arch IS dis.
c':ss:n: this very question with the land.
lords of England. The landlords and
their organs think with the Bee tina. the
employer is the best Judge of what par: o:
his tot! the lahore: ought TO have. Arch
thinks otherwise. and appeals to America.
IN Paris they settled the matter other
wise. they slew the Communists al.
though :mpelled by 1.-The want o: employ
ment and Lread"-by thousands. ar!
tried tbs struggle for bread as capital
crime.
as we have stated til: question. !: Is a
phase CT The Cd question Of capita! and
labor. There have long been trades
unions by wiic. the poor have sought to
combine the mite o: each to sustain the
contes: against the accumulated results Of
their labor held by the masters. These
contests. which are known in English
as STRIKES" and ":ock outs" mari. this
conflict. Who can dare to say tina: the
:abo:er has enough to eat or TO wear. or to
lay up for sickness 0. senility: No one il
this broad land. where the hired is :he 20.
Utica! equal Of the hirer. Who shall say
:ha: the employe: shall give large. wages
than in his own opinion his business Cal:
justify: 10 one. IL :: country where
property aEi persona. rights are alike r:o.
:ectc!.
Perhaps CIR Partisan friends know
little Of sugar. Its culture or its chemistry.
excep: 50 .al as it enters into :o,.j;seriss.
Ie: it j, boldly said tina: the sugar plant.
e:s have been SO impoverished tina: they
car pay no more .han 2 certain rate o;
wages. Since j: is plain that land will
no: produce without labor. it is plain tina.
labor should be ,emrnerate!. We have
no eersUre Cor the sugar planters. ye: j:
may be .ha: labor can not now bear the
burdens j: once did. Possibly the Lire
o: money. ;ncrmbranees upon land. en-
pioyment Of saiaried superintendent. it
may even be. style Of living which does
not correspond with the revenues o:
. sugar estate. may be causes entering into
this inability to allow the iaborer a larger
share of his OWN toll. In a question so
delicate as whether the employer should
economic the expense Of production. OF
the !aborer consent % . reduction Of Lis
share Of The product. We offer no opinion.
]: is. we repeat. 10 political question.
Here. rs elsewhere. it must be left to work
out its own solution. with the same re.
str:c:ion here as elsewhere. TIA: no man
must disturb the public order or invade
the rights Of any other man.
We object to the French r:e". Because
It places us. as has been before stated up
on the same authority. IL o state 0: politi.
cal. and now o. industrial: anarchy"
We .epea: tina. while ". accord to the
foreign press entire freedom, 70 say villa.
they choose abou: o. against the An.e.:.
c.n people and their institutions. we &c.
gre: that: i: is found Necessary to defame
us and exagge,ate our nissor:unes. y.
suppose !. is 20 this cause we mus: At
tribute Oh: entire disappointment: to re.
ce.ye Any immigration. from the territories
o: Lorraine and .:isace. recently ge:rocedeI
t" Germany. Possibly 70 this cause may
be due TIE withdrawal Of many millions
o. francs :,on. New Orleans FOX invest
men: in French securities. Party venom,
sometimes .n:ec those who employ It to
iniure others. lie: on. French :r:e:ds re.
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