Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-08-15


, which were as the widest dreams, and
dreamed himself the wild dream that
he would thus become President. Gov
ernor Hartranit did not associate oi
bargain with them, but others did fol
him, and imposed upon him some most
, ungracious obligations which he reuct
antly performed, and he is now garn.
ering the harvest at Scranton.
All political parties have feared the
power Of associated labor, and each has
pandered to it TO the utmost that deceit
and falsehood could be employed, with
out forcing capital and law-loving citi-
zens into organized revolt. We have
seen scores sof party platforms fashioned
and do not remember when the makers
took a thought as to the real interests
Of labor, or considered anything beyond
what farce would be most attractive
for the labor galleries for that season.
Indeed ever since labor has associated
its people under political leaders who
rant on the stump, and invent sublime
degrees to bind their subjects, and ply
the arts Of the demagogue in the secret
councils of workingmon, politicians
have treated the labor element merely
as a comercial commodity, to be pur-
chased with offices for the ambitious,
money for the venal immunity for the
vicious and fattery for fools.
So much for the past. The present
tells its own story Of how men shall
reap as they have strewn.
The future is plain to all who view
it without passion or prejudice. The
Legislation of States, and Of the nation
as well, that must follow the present
disturbed condition OF industry and
trade, will be directed, first of all, to
the protection of capital. Partisan
newspapers and candidates for public
favor will not say so but if they shall
say aught else, they will deliberately
violate the truth. The best and purest
craftsmanship Of the country will be
directed to the safety OF capital as the
basis of common prosperity-as the
safety of our industry. If it shall not
be done, hundreds of millions Of foreign
capital will be Withdrawn from our
country, and every dollar recalled to
the Old World will be a blow at the
thrift of our labor. 1t will be done,
also, because the safety OF free govern
ment is the supremacy OF law, and the
law must equally shield the owner of
capital and the owner OF labor, each to
do as he or they will in the legitimate
pursuits of life. This is the inexorable
law OF necessity, and even the blatant
demagogues who harangue labor with
incendiary speech to breed lawlessness,
will be the first to bow 10 it. 1t would
be much more agreeable to the present
infamei mind of labor TO say that labor
will rule the land and make ITS own
laws for the control Of capital but the
truth in this case is the faithful wound
of the faithful friend.
There will be no national bureau to
regulate the adjustment of labor popu-
lation, or to be umpire IN the disputes
between industry and capital, nor will
there be any national appropriation as
gifts to labor. They who propose it,
como with decoitlul tongue and studied
falsehood to cheat labor into fragrant
wrongs against itself Stanley Mat
thcws who has proposed it in Ohio in
political emergency that involves his
seat in the Senate, will earn his thirty
or forty thousand dollars annually as
counsel for corporations by teaching
them how they can evade every en-
croachment of the law upon their su-
preme control of their own capital and
after election will charge the railrways
extra for defeating in the Legislature
and the Courts what he taught in bis
resolutions and on the stump. He as
sumes that laborers are merely politi-
cal commodity to be cheated in cam
paigns, and he goes at il in open day,
with bis sleeves rolled up. And the
country is iull Of Stanley Matthews OF
all grades, from Senators to Constables
from Matthews to Arthur, thence to
Parks and Siney and AmmOn, and on
down to the boss OF mine or o gang,
who trades in the votes and labor of
his fellows.
Labor like capital, must yield TO the
unalterable laws ofsupply and demand,
and disorder Is but an aggravation of
adyersity. When capital prospers,
labor must prosper with it when capi-
tai languishcs, labor must languish also;
and he who makes either the foe of the
other, or estranges their interests in
any degree, is not only tho foe of both
labor and capital, but also the foe OF
good order and of the thrift and happi-
ness of all. There are those who will
flattcr the suffering with glittering but
hollow professions but the truth for
truths sake is the best offering The
Times has to give in behalf of the law
that guards the high and the low, and
of the peace that is inseparablc from a
prosperous industry.-Phiid. Times.