The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-10-20
Politically EQuinOlnlkal.

CAPITAL is accumulated wealth. 1t is crystal
lied labor In other words, it is savings. Land
is wealth, though it is not capital, for no one
saved it. Hence the axiom, Go it while you're
yourg and when you get old you have your CAPT
tal-to get Labor is thatwhich produces wealth
and capital Both capital and labor are required
to produce wealth. Labor must be fed and capt.
tai buys the feed. If capital withdraws the feed,
labor .langushcth," as during the panic; work
ing together both are happy, and whosoever says
there is any necessary or natural antagonism be-
tween the two is an ignoramous
The post meridian f,ro-senter represents capital
untold stacks of capital. Its editors reyel in
wealth. Through plate glass Windows the album
dance of their "loavcs and fishes" is like the
wealth of Golconda, as he who runs may read;
they make broad their phylarterics, and love the
uppermost rooms ut feasts, and the chief seats in
cigar stores, and take many notes (but do not
print them,) and spend their shekels on nicklc
cigars to be seen of men,-which showeth that
they have wealth-oceans of wealth, and capital
incalculable-to get. Meantime they "hypothe-
cate" of their abundance-of air.
We represent labor. In the noble 'Juke" there
arc Gurus VI IL. ~ 10 as N'ANN
as mosquitoes in swamp.
Capital came to labor; made bargain, and
started the mills. The paper.maker turned in
tons (small tons) Of raw MATERIAL the Juke turn
ed the throttle of the Baxter, and 10. the world
looked on in wonder that one small head would
perpetrate such marvels of journalism. The
DAYS passed on and as ''hard times" came on,
when their 'bonds" began to be drug in the
market, when Henry Meiggs died. and our
friends Capital-began to be hard pressed for
the interest on that $4,000 600 loan, like the
"souless corporations" they began to cut down
our wages so that the 'cake" disappeared from
tables, and after time wages ceased altogether
and the ''bread" disappeared also. For time
we Oabor) languished. Then we struck.
There is no necessary antagonism between
capital and labor, but when capital attempts to
dead beat its way in increasing wealth there is
sure to be a circus. And as laborers we have evil
IDENTIFY started circus performance that makes
as great sensation us Lent's n. Y. Hippodrome
did in the island of Borneo this summer.
The fact is, so long as the Times paid their bills
at this Office according to promise and showed q
disposition to do as they agreed, they had nc
difficulty in getting material of Us and in having
their work done; but when we were obliged to
furnish both paper and press-work while they
made no effort to pay for the same, we concluded
| it about time to shut down and did so. We pre-
sumo we did wrong. We ought to have "contn
ued in well doing" We ought to have done
more We ought to have paid their hands, ant
their rent, and furnished champagne supper'
three times week for their editors and supplied
them with Mitch's marble Heads" or Hess
''Libbys," and sent Jasper around with ;
barouche every morning to bring them to thu
office, and introduced them into good societ,
and given them ten thousand year for Incl
dentals, but we didn't And they are not happy
Who would be?