The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-09-25
CLASS LR0I0LATION.

had an existence.
CLASS LEGISLATION.
There are two classes in this country
who desire government Intervention.
These are the protectionists, whether
manufacturers or workingmen. Both
are opposed to the genius Of Democ-
racy and neither should receive any
aid or comfort from it. An industry
that is not able to protect itself in
legitimate trade is not worth preserv-
ing. 4 laborer who wants govern
ment Intervention to give him more
wages than he earns. is simply beg
gar, and is deserving Of no more con-
sideration than public lauper. The
tenderness with which the newspapers
are dealing with the wOrkingmen's
organization is simple folly. They are
encouraging a class Of hornets which
would sting. if they had the power.
not only the republic but civilization
itself to death. The hard times are
no more oppressive to labor than it is
to capital. All classes and conditions
feel it. 1t is a prevalent and periodic
depression which is common to all
commercial and industrial communi.
ties. 1t is especially an incident of
such great commissions rs our civil
war. With Us, rs with all other peo-
pie. the remedy is in patience and
economy. In this country. there is no
good reason why any class Of people
should want for bread. If one indus
try ceases to he remunerativc. another
can be sought, and back Of all lies a
continent of limitless prairies and
teeming forests waiting for the hus-
bandman and inviting settlement. 1t
requires no capital but indu<try-no
genius but labor. AS long as these
exist in such boundless profusion, the
exactions Of the workingmen. stripped
of the surplusage Of cant. is nothing
but menacing robbery. 1t is simply
asking that the farmer, the merchant,
the lawyer, the banker, the capital
ist-every class Of industry except
that Of The day laborer-shall be
taxed to give them higher wages than
their industry earns. II is demand
ing that every farmer who ships
bushel Of wheat shall pay cent more
for its transportation than the freight
is worth, SD as to keep up the wages
of the railroad laborer. 1t never &C.
ours to the railroad man that he should
20 into some other business. He likes
railroading. and he wants the commu-
nifty to give him gratuity for the in
diligence Of his TASTE. This is a fair
and legitimate analysis Of the demands
Of the working men who are organ
izing for the purpose Of menacing the
into making laws for them
as class. They want to make indus
try pensi"ner and Labor beggar--
they seek to become the stipendiaries
Of economy ard thrift. and demand
that the telling farmer and the hard
worked merchant-the men whose
genius and industry has webbed the
iron avenues of trade and commerce
and whose Accommodations ere the re-
suit of an obedience 10 that homely
maxim which bids all to live within
their income-shalI he taxed for the
benefit of class who only wish to
work eight hours a day, while being
paid for twelve. They make a virtue
Of their improvidence AID ask that
thrift shall make it good. Until Or
ganized labor which is degenerating
into organized tumult shall be told
plain truths, instead Of leine petiei
by the press Of the country. its un-
fanaticism will he the hane (:
IF constituted society.