The Morning herald., 1877-08-13
WHAT TO 10.

Nearly two gears ago we wro'e 1" '''e
HERALD: "The bullionists are contract
ing the currency, in the interest OF the
rich. and the robbery Of the poor; rum
has always, followed such legislative INK
er;np with the currency Of any country,
riot. rapine, and beggary, are the crops the
mlliopis,s and their, advocates in the sen-
ate and House will reap" We were as
sailed with all manner Of abuse, by the
press of this city, for our views, but we
never changed them, and it is resre''uily
we record the f,lfillment Of our prognostl'
cation What are we to d. about it--in
what way can we remedy the bad times!
It is exceedingly difficult to answer, in fact,
50 few of our people have ever thought or
read upon the labor question that as a
people we are singularly unfit to grapple
with it. Our so.called statesmen are, OF
all Others. the most absolutely ignorant of
the matter, judging by the shrieks about
capital and its protection one or two OF
them have uttered.
To our mind, much of the present trou-
BILE comes from exhaustion, resultant from
an attempt to pay our national debt, IN
stead of funding it and looking only to its
very gradual extinction. lis payment Is
T. in the interest of capitalists alone and
against the working classes, out of whose
production taxation all comes. The Ma
tiopal Bank circulation should be abol-
1 ished, aud The people have the profit from
the balance of the currency.
The Resumption Act, thus far, has
been means Of passing the debtors props
!, erty to his cveditor at half its value. 1t
will plunge the country still further into
j., ruin if it is not repealed. The hypolheca-
ture of the customs duties to the bondhold-
ers is unjust to every consumer of foreign
commodities Congress should pass law,
v compelling the Government to take its
4 own money IN payment of import duties.
Free trade has become necessity for the
hungry millions if the iron, wooden, col
4 ten. and other manufacturers have resolved
that they cannot pay living wages to their
workers, then, in name of justice, let the
workers, out of their Iittance have the
' cheap goods made by well paid workmer
in Europe. Let tariff spoufers cease bab
bling about the pauper labor of Europe
the European laborer is better paid to- day
than the American. A carpenter in Lon
don is paid $3.50 per week, in gold, ant
a he can buy American beef five cents PEI
pound cheaper, and flour one dollar bar
rel less than the retail price of the sam
! articles here! Other occupations are pal'
1 in the same ratio, and other necessaries G
life bought correspondingly lower than W
can buy them Shop keepers, and merchant
, generally, are large sufferers from tn
, present low rate Of wages-the workln
classes are their best customers, and the
interest is in favor Of paying living wag'
to working men.
{ If the employing classes, or rather, tt
! directors of labor, practised In their o"
homes, the poverty enforced upon the poo
there would be mutually of curtailmel
! which would be equitable, and no ill-ee
ing would be generated. We have locke
! in vain among the whole range of empo
, ers whom we know to fad an insLan
where one of the accustomed luxuries +
! themselves or children have been lopp
off. Ten per cent. is taken OF the pay re
, of the workers; but the wine flows, hors
q :, tret, women haunt about in costly dress
a, of yore; while children cry for brea
" a I'd strong men groan in the agony OF
i, spair We are sowing dragons teeth
armed men will be the crop we will rec
a If, under a protective tariff, millio
d starve open the ports, and give US che
goods in exchange for cur wheat, co
f. cotton, oil, and PROVISIONS, and our peol
'd will! 90 to the land for living. If p
u lection is corollry Of s'arva'ion--
! 3. protection go to the wall. Platform
4 Ia the workers:
81 Repeal the Resumption Act.
v Abolish the National Bank circulate