New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-02

The few hundred persons who were propos-
i'm, that the business of a continent should
stand absolutely still, and all the world pause
and look on. while they settled the question
whether railroad managers should bc permitted
10 buv their labor in open market nj market
rates. OF be compelled to take 1t from such
markets and at such rates as these persons
demanded, having failed tn establish their
RIGHT to take the worlds machinery and the
worlds accumulated capital aud investments
in charge. it may he worth while to
consider in general way. for moment
how much the demonstration has cost,
and how much the worlds welfare has
been enhanced by it. When we speak OF the
worlds welfare we mean, of course, the VII
fare of the only class vino have rights supe-
nor TO all other rights, TO wit, the one deNiS-
mated bv Mr.. John Swinton and Nr. Jrslus
Schwab and the other philosophers OF lahoI
and rushers Of beer as "the Producing Class"
This class dccs not include, of course. the Ia
borer who last year produced enough to llis-
tify his dayoting this year TO comfortable
leisure and employing other men to do the
work he formerly did himself. lie has ceased
to be Il PRODUCER aud has become a mere con-
sumner. a bloated capitalist, Il foe to the
lahoring man and an enemy To the best intrr-
c.ts of society. In consulting about the gen
eral good we can have nothing To 30 with
him. The simple fact that he illustrates III
his own person the cOnvertbili,y of the terms
Captal and Labor, is sufficient. That leaves
him out. He has betrayed Labor by becoming
a capitalst: he has. to the extent OF his abil-
ity. belitt,cd the great struggle, the "incpreS-
a ..N.1. l.1. Ia
showing that the difference is by no means
irreconciabc, but may easily he bridget
over by industry and fmglliy. The In
fuence Of the man who was last year pro-
Queer and is this year consumer, who last
wear ab0rcd and this year employs, Is, ac-
cor,ling to the intelligent philosophy OF Mr..
John Swinton and Mr.. Justus Schwab. very
bad The effect OF such an example Is 10 raise
| in the mind Of thc average hborer hope OF
becoming IA representative of Capital himself
by industry and frusaiity, for, 5ingiiarly
enough. this irrcprcSsible conflict is wagcd by
the representatives, of Labor against the repre-
! scntatives Of Capital net for the dignity of
! Labor, but for the attainment Of Capital.
No. When we speak of the public welfare
meaning thereby the welfare OF those whose
| labor, like that Of Mr.. John Swinton and Mr.
JuStus Schwah, constitutes the public wealth.
we include no one who either has dollar of
| last years earnings in his pocket now or hopes
to have a dollar Of this year earnings twelve
months hence. The only men who can he
trusted as the true and constant representa-
! tIvcs of Labor-the steady and permanent
! Produccrs-are such as Mr. John SvInon,
who. so soon as he has wrought ont great
new Thought in the workshop Of his brain
aud enlarged the sum OF popular intelli-
| gence, and reused the popular enthusiasm
with it, and received into his horny palm the
generous sum with which the pGpulace re-
ward, its teachers and benefactors proceeds
! with it--not To- the busy mart of speculation,
OF the Bowery Savings Bank, but 90 Ju-tus
| Schwab's saloon, where ne invests II all in q
"schooner,r and, sitting down with justus
covers the country over with his large dis
course. Or such q, Mr. Justus Schwab, Who hay
ing produced the beer which promotes Mr.
Swimou's calm and logical intellectual pro-
cesscs devotcs tine profits OF the same, not
to the damnablo purchase of accursed real
estate. but to the erection OF p platform
the calling Of a public meeting and the main
t4uauce of an efficient brass baud for ~ least
one summer evening These are your true
REPRESENTATIVES Of Toll. thc Producers who
are always producing and always expecting
10 produce; the gleat-heartrd men who have
40 patience with permanent investments, aud
seldom comb their hair; who dcsIise real
estate to the extent that they carry it about
| in small SAMPLES 10 bring il into contempt,
and who dividing their time between the assdu-
tiles Of beer, the rccreations of philosophy, and
the acerbies Of the great industrial struggle,
make the world fragrant with thar rare chcmi-
cal combination of malt liquor, garlic and a
beautiful example. These are the men who
are raising Labor to higher plane, and, through
nubIc meetings and brass bands, issuing orders
to the bloated capitalist. whose investment re-
turns him two dollars day, to pay the whole
! OF il for one mans labor, while one idle man
sits by and starves instead of giving the two
men employment at n dollar "a day. They are
the real Sons of Toll, and they can regulate
this whole matter il they are only given the
chance.
But what we started ont to inquire was
how much the present demonstration has cost,
and how much those actual Producers, those
genuine Sons Of Toll, have made by il. The
cost of 1t all in property destroyed is many
millions in the impairment of mems trusts,
arrest of trade disturbance of business, expenses
of military service. etc, millions more and
in the loss of life something hardly prac-
ticablc to estimate Without dispuing for Il
moment the actual right of Mr. john Swinton