The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28
The Rail Road Strikes.


another part Of this issue,
Labor is honorable, and there is high
authority for the sentiment that "the la
borer is worthy of his hire" But there
is no authority anywhere for that other
sentiment, that the laborer is worthy Of
more than his hire. Hire, or the wages
oflabor, is regulated Engagement between
the employer and the employed. There is
no compulsion to work for less wages than
fair living rate Of compensation. If the
employer offers less, there can be no harm
or wrong in quitting his employment and
seeking it elsewhere at more remunerative
rates. But the striker does not do this,
He not only stops work himself, but en-
deayors to stop others, and il the employer
intcrferes to protect his own interests, the
strikers combine to destroy his property
and perhaps his life. Such combination,
for such purposes, is against all law, hu-
man and divine, and fatalto the most vital
interests of society, 1t is monstrous that
anyone can be found anywhere to uphold
such state Of things, and yet there are
those who uphold it in every community.
1t is the same spirit that manifested itself
in the red republicanism of France; the
same spirit Of communism that wrapped
Paris in flames and drenched its streets in
blood. As it drove the piowshare Of ruin
over the fairest portions of France, SO it
will work ruin aud devastation here, if
unchecked in its course.
Labor is the condition of all. All men
must labor with head or hands, or both
Ifnot, they violate the great law Of their
being, and must, in some way, pay the
penalty, Labor is the basis of capital; it
was before capital, and men must labor
before they can have capital. The most
intimate relation exists between labor and
capital There is no antagonism between
them. The one is unproductive without
the other, and natural affinity makes
them mutually dependent upon each other.
Strikes interfere with both andantagonize
both. They interrupt labor aud stop its
production and its reward, and, as at Pitts
burg, destroy the joint production of both
capital and labor. Capital can III afford
to look down upon labor with supercilious
mien, because, without labor, capital would
perish. Society is upon wrong basis
where capital assumes to itself superiority
over labor, and the man or the woman is
pitiably empty-headed who arrogates to
himself or herself any superiority on ac-
count Of capital Moral and Intellectual
worth ought to be the only ground Of dis
linction between men. A man may be
poor in purse but rich in all the attributes
aud excellencies Of true manhood So far
from labor barring the door of refined so
eiety against him, other things being in
conformity with its requirements, active
labor and industry ought to constitute
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