Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-18
EASTERN NEWS.
TO THE DAILY SENTINEL
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
Judge West, the Republican Candi-
date for Governor. on tie
Labor Question.
liz DOES HIS LEVEL BEST TO CATCH
THE VOTES OF WORKIyGMEN.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 16.
The Ohio campaign was opened to-
night at Beliefontaino in a speech by
Judge West. After a few brief intro.
ductory remarks, he said: The Cleve-
land Convention reafirmed as an en-
tirety the National platform of 1876.
On 1t, asst year, we fought and won the
principles 1t enunciates, and their dis
cussion are fresh in the recollection Of
all. Two additional planks of princi-
pal importance were added at Cleve-
land, one favoring the reconciliation
of silver and the other recommending
the creating of a National Bureau OF
Industry. The deep interest awakened
by the labor agitation ranks the latter.
1t is first in importance, and it will be
first considered. The recent and exist
ing industrial disturbances have devel-
oped an alarming phase in our Ameri-
can civilization and its special condi
ton. The unhappy contest between
the opposing sections Of the country
was fraught with scarcely greater peril.
That was a struggle for a divided do
minion and separate asceDdancy, but
this is the bursting of a volcano he
meath our feet; the upheaving of the
foundations of social order, threaten
ing with humiliation the fabric of u
industrial and commercial freedom.
Thoughtful men look on with appre-
tension, and ask, is the history OF the
Old Worlds civilization to repeat itself
here? Is there ar irrepressibie conflict
between labor and capital, ~inseparable
from augmented population and di-
minished employment, whose anarch-
ical tendencies can be averted only at
the expense of military subjugation?
This is the grave problem presented
for solution. Thrice has the Old
Words remedy for military i%nterven
ton been applied in as many years,
without extinguishing the cause that
worked it. 1t was applied by the Gov
ernors of two States, and now it bursts
forth i'm consuming fires of national
proportion. The vicious seize upon
the commotion it has caused, as the
occasion of exercising their criminal
passions for applying the incendiary
torch, and for the shedding of innocent
blood. Unto these reason and Glenn
ency extend themselves in vain. II is,
however, gratifying to know that few,
If any, with hearts willing and hands
ready for toll joined them in their car
nival of destruction. That destruction
has been stayed, and the uprising from
which it sprung suppressed by the
national arms and quiet reigns. Shalt
the public again fold its arms in fatal
security, without investigating its
causes or seeking to discover and APP
ply some peaceful remedy more
effectual and enduring than arms,
or shall we rather familiariZe
ourselves 10 the exertiou Of mill
tary power in the management of
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stitutions, IA interests aud Il desti-
ny to the exclusive guardianship of
military protection? Shall we, with
out an effort to reach some peaceful so
luton OF our social antagonism. rather
suffer their violence TO become the pre-
text for strengthening our military es-
tablishment, though it effect the over
throw of popular government and
liberty? No! we must meet the dan
ger at the threshold. Disorder must
be depressed, rights maintained, and
property protected by a strong hand
when the necessity shall arise. We
must not allow the existence of "A
capable of peaceful remedies to impel
Us to that state where we shall be
forced to choose between military des
potism and social anarchy. Let us
rather demand the exhaustion of all
peaceful appliances, and if these shall
fail to protect our rights and maintain
the relations of labor and capital, then,
and hen only, must the Old Worlds
history be suffered t. repeat itself.
Labor and capital are each indispensa-
BILE to the other. Labor is the source
of all productions; capital, with its in
crease, is the exclusive product of its
hand. Without the remuneration
l AZ b.snh oc from the nr.l.,a ~ In 10.
alone capital must perish from ex-
haustion, without the means aud OPP
portunity of employment which CAPT.
tai alone can furnish. Labor must
perish from inaction and want. What
ever Is destructive of either is fatal to
the other; without the cooperation of
each, both must languish and die.
Since, then, the interests and prosperi-
ty of each are inseparable from those
Of the other, is it not the part of wis
dom to devise and apply some method
of intermanagement which, without
trenchiDR upon the separate rights OF
either, shall vest it with such rights?
Let the capitalist prescribe a reasona-
BILE minimum of rates of compensa-
ton, to be paid at all events, and, in
addition thereto, assume TO distribute
among bis laborers, at the end of stat
cd periods, an agreed or specified per-
centage OF his net earnings for the
same time. II his business prosper
the laborer, from whose toll 1t sprung,
would share his prosperity; and if
not, he would acquiescs with content
ment in receiving all that was in the
power Of q considerable employer to
give. Methods of graduated compen-
sation, similar TO this, have been
adopted in Europe and in this country,
and my information is, that in no sin
gle instance have lock-outs or strikes
occurred in any industrial establish
ment where such a system has been
adopted. My Judgment, therefore, is
that their application in the MANAGE
ment of our railway and other great in-
dustrial investments would be attend
ed with like satisfactory results.
I'll, as manager of q colliery or rail
way line, had the power to try the ex-
pertinent, l would test the principle
with a confident assurance OF a sue
cessful issue. The employe being in
terested in augmenting receipts, would
have the strongest motive to prevent
whatever was calculated to defeat
these results, and, instead of the dis
contented striker, he becomes the vigil