, 1877-01-06
THE WAGES PAID

For this class of labor are not extrava-
CANT, when we consider the danger Of
Il . service and keep in mind the fac
that they do not averege eight months
of steady work in . year. The lntelltgen-
Ger, some weeks ago. claimed that log
gers wages should be on a par with
those Of mill hands. This would not
be in accordance with principles OF
equity, for tho millmen work under
pover, while the lQ00er II constantly ex-
posed to The severity Of the sa1ameQts,
E1eHln, the MN ha>l11Seee ~
all the year round, while the loggers
lose nearly all the winter. In fact q
reduction of wages would only help the
nonresident capitalists who own our
great mills. and leave. those who are
building up our civilization
POORER THAN THEY BEGAN.
Cheap labor enriches no new country.
Frontier settlements are supposed to
have no very rich men and no paupers,
at all. Hence we are in favor of keep
ing up wages of all kinds. We should
like to see the day return when printer 8
wages were rs cents per thousand ems.
1t would close out every slipshod news
paper on the coast and enable journal
lists who really understood the business,
to earn something more than bare
living. Cheap labor means famine when
the harvest is over and destitltion when
navigable streams are closed by ice.
1t means, working mems children grow
ing up in ignorance, if not In crime.
Hence, we say cheap labor is antago-
nistic to the
ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION.
Who are our leading financiers and
statesmen to-day? The sons of bank
ers. lawyers, or divines? No. not at all.
Charles Francis Adams and Wade Hamp-
ton are. to-day. the only American
statesmen of illustrious ancestry. Daniel
Webster's son was gentlemanly idler;
two of Henry Clay's sons were lunatics
and not one of the five could earn a
hundred dollars per month, if thrown
on his own resources; John Van Buren
is already forgotten. save IS a humorist; /;
and Col Bakers sons couldn't muster
eloquence enough to say grace before
meat. Need We pursue this subject fur
'ther? No. the proof is too plain before
us. The great men of our era are men of
hun.bie parentage. whom love of toll has
RAIshD TO FORTUNE.
Eve cannot all win in the battle of life;
The weakest must go to the wall.
So grid on your armor to face the worlds
strife
There's room in this wide world for ALL"
Cheap labor and low wages would have
reared in ignorance such men as the
sons of San Francisco mechanics are
growing up to be. Keep laborers on a
pittance, and their sons grow up slaves
like their parents. Give them liberal
wages, and their children get a hfS;a
EDUCATION; for there is no parent, how
ever poor, but wants TO see his son grow
up better educated man than himself.
The day when David C. Broderick-
the stone-cutter's son-took his seat in
the United States Senate, the hands on
the clock of the universe, leaped ahead
a hundred years. Cheap labor will not
bring such men to the front, once in q
century; but pay liberal wages, and we
shall find our future Brodericks in
EVERY MILL AND FOUNDRY.
We glory in free labor. We exult in Its
streo., h I'd bow before the majesty of
its fast-increasing dominion. Coupled
with the free education vouchsafed by
u liberal and enlightened government,
free labor shall be the palladium of
great peoples liberties and hold the
foeman aloof from our strand. The iron
crown bears more imperial sway than
the diadem of gold. 1t Is not the sword
that rules the world. but the pick. the
plow. the loom and the anvil. Advan-
cling civilization devises new machinery
for saving manual labor and lifts the
curse of Cain from the brow of toll.
Reader, all men must labor. Remem-
Der that we are toiling even now, on the
midnight of the dying year, lifting our
mother tongue from the case. one letter
at time. And while We ply the pen
and press, sound slumbers and pleasant
dreams to the sturdy fellows that swing
the AK.