The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1877-03-01

men N New YORK. Thus we see q
What extremitIes London is reduce
> oy the accH q ulatIOn Of a vast BODY
OF people enga ed only IN an art flea
state Of suetety. Here comes in IN,
"out OF employment question" II
arises directly from 50 nsny people
engaged IN arts, and trades, and arti
neal soeiety-thst there is not q prop
er proportion between the SUPPLYING
and consuming departments OF life
We will take now another illustratiou
which will be well understood iu
Ohio. In 1872, there was made in the
United States pig iron to the extent ol
! 100000 tons. In 1879 there were
made only 2.O50. 900 tons Tne differ
ence in the cost Of production WAS a,
least hfteen millions OF dollars Fhat
sum was almost al s reduction OF toe
wages paid to labor. Here We see one
process IN the production Ol
ramps Let Us now take one not
quite so direct. The present vaius OF
railroad property is not more than
half Its original cost, and the mel
pronts OF the roads ara not more than
half the Interest OF the same sum put
on mortgage. In plain words, tne
loss on railroad property, compared
with the original cost, Is near fifteen
hundred millions Of dollars. This has
not probsbly diminished the number
OF employees, but hiss diminished their
wages, and has diminished the mesDs
OF thousands Of people who invested
Ia them 80, II we refer to tbs COM
merciai community, We find mer-
chants and traders doing business on
falling markets, and it will take all
the sense and economy Of the best
merchant to do business In that wav.
We see now how 'iout Of employ
ment" comes, and must exist nov to
s much greater extent than it did flr-
merly. All legislation attempting to
remedy this state of things has been
worse than useless. The cry OF ''specie
resumption" has been immensely in
furious to the country, and must nec-
esssrily be much more 50. Foe rich
aud the Well-tO-dO can stand il 4; but
the weak aud the poor are like the
frogs pelted by the boys. It was fun
for the boys, bu. death to the frogs.
/ WHAT difference does it make G.,
mechanic or q labOrer whether he is
paid in gold or paper dollars, when
either Of them will buy meat or
bread ? What he wants is employ
ment to get the dollar. Wbat ths
| merchants and traders want Is to sell
their goods and wares. The same
dollar that he gets will be taken by
the farmer at the same rate. The
only satisfaction we, the people, get
out OF the insane follies OF the day is
that they who make them must be
ground in the same mill. Well, what
is to be done for "Out of employ
ment ?' The first plain thing Is thiS;
there must be redistributiOI Of the
labor and emplOyments Of society.
How is that to be dOne2 No legisla-
ton can do it, and il must wait the
event of time aud Providence.
Maltus was right when he said that
population would decline when it
passed against the limits OF subsist-
ence. It is equally trus that when
every man undertakes to live by the
artificial wants OF sOciety-trade or
art-sOciety will decline. SIciety
will at last regulate itself by the law
of supply and demands. Children.
will cease when there Is nothing to
support them, and tramp5 will cease
for the same reason. But, in the
meantime, there Is 8 great problem
to solve in what to do with
them. The poor have been tue
subject OF very ingenious eOntriv-
snces. The religious idea Of the
church was almsgiving. The Doliti-
cal idea was taxation and poorhouses.
Probably the last kept more beggars
out Of sight, but neither OF them
either reduced the cause or the result.
The last invention was that Of the
last Napoleon, to give the unemplOy-1
ed work by the government, But as
the government gets its means Who'll
ly from the people, it would be just az
we'll to tax themselves directly for
that very purpose. ar
In the proceedings of the ''wOrk-
ingmen" of Cincinnati We find the
following resolution
ResoEred, That we hold the city should
create employment for the unemployed la
borers OF the city, by system OF publlc I'M
prOvements."
This is the NapOleonic idea, which
has two fatal objections. In the first
plsee, it is only applicable to cities
and, in the second place, it Is simply
another form of taxation for the sup
port of the pOOr--a more agreeable
one, no doubt, to the poor lsborer,
but ultimately fatal to credit and
property. In Paris it ended in Com
munism. In New York, il has got so
far as one hundred and fifty millions
Of debt. Practically il is impossible
until there is reconciliation I stTeen
those who are trying to save proper
ty and those who are trying to spend
it for public uses. For example, we
have here In Cincinnati the conflict
going on practically. The Legisla-
ture recently enacted that the city
Of Cincinnati should not tax itself
more than sixteen mills OF the valu-
alton Of property. This Is an srbi-
trary measure, which can not be /
maintained In 8 free community. !
But It is q law, and will stand until |
repealed. Then the EOrkingmen pass |
the above resolution. The sixteen
mills will only cover present neces-
sary improvements. How, then, can ]
the city make new improvements to |
employ wOrkingmen We only give |
this as an example Of the conflict go
ing on. The Napoleonic idea is well I
for an instant emergency, when peO-
pie are suddenly thrown out of em-
plOI HChNF IuA IL III nOk uU aOL DEL@ i
mznent measure of relief. What /
will Nothing that we can see
out that redistribution of labor and !
employ ment, which no human law
can make, ana which can only come
by those gradual changes IA society
which can neither be created nor fore
told by man. This problem OF re-
munefative employment is not to be
settled by geOlOgists, or pbilanthrO-
pists, or DarWinians, or socialists. Il
IL beyond their depth. We remen-
Der when Robert. Owen lectured in
Cincinnati, demonstrating that the
system, IN towns built IN
(fOr no other form but that
would do). was the royal way of hap
piness- We remember that some in
telliRent and excellent people were
deluded, and after trying the system
returned, sad ald disappointed, to be-
gin again the struggle OF life. Lanark !
mas ceased to be novel, and Robert l
Owen has long since gone; but his
problem remains unsOlved. Let Us
Iske another fact. Tue United States
has immense quantities OF unoccu-
pied land, and much Of 10 open to the
actual settlers without price. But the
settler will need stock and q cabin.
Would il not be quite ss cheap to fur
Dish stock and q cabin to begin with
as to psy more money at home This /.
would tend to equalize the distrib1-
ton Of labor and OF rewards. Bot on
the other hand, such 10 the gregariOus
nature OF men that &C last there is q
floating class which will always tend
to great cities. People are continually
coming to Cincinnati 70 take Advsn-
tage Of its charities and lis public In
stlt1tiOns. Modern civilization start |
les rs with its Inventions, its ma
chinery, and its culture, end we sound |
the praises OF human genius and i'm I
provements. But society has not
solved one Of its own problems since |
the days OF AbTaham.-E. d. A. IN I
Gin. Gazette
A travelling show in the E8st con-
sisted OF 'shumaD enriOsities" all from /
one family. The head OF the concern |
was 3 Samson and sword-swsllower. !
His wife was the fat woman. His
daughter, with her hair bleachsd aud !
her ewes painted, was the Circassian !
girl. His sOn-in-laW was the door
tender. His tlree-year-oId son.