The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-11
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lence, pity or sympathy. The elements
which give beauty and tenderness to
character, which soften the rigors OF i'm
partial justice anl alleviate suffering by
personal sacrifice, are entirely excluded
from this science which is the product OF
intellect Invested of sensibility. The
ethics of business may not fatally pcrvert
mans moral nature, but ii makes 1t
amenable to the tenets Of selhshness only.
1t does not relate the parable of the good
Samaritan in answer to the query WHO
is nv neighbor. It teaches that suffer
ing Is TO be endured not relieved. 1t
places on the same moral level the sub
lime teachings which inculcate charity,
and the principles which require simple
honesty unaccompanied with impulsiye
virtues While it does not decry benevo-
lence neither does it recognize or encour-
age it. 1t commends itself to those who
basb in the smileszof prosperity or to
those whose ability or position may com
mand success, but brings words Of des
pair to the unfortunate, the -rostrate or
the feeble. 1t is the ampHfed precept
OF the doctrine, 1.-The survival Of the
fittest
Diyest communism Of the repulsive
features given it by the vicious and bru-
tai members who profess its principles,
and it becomes laudable struggle of
poverty against all that is harsh in the
doctrine Of supply and demand. HUI
man law is made to conform to man
wants and should be framed so as to con-
fer happiness on the greatest number and
not on the most powerful. The law Of
supply and demand presupposes for its
justification the approximate equality of
mankind. Laws deriving their origin
from the genius Of trade are frequently
modified by circumstances Of great need
and other abnormal conditions. Politi-
cal economy, which creates principles for
the guidance of man in economic mat
tiers, takes no cognizance of that domes-
tic affection through which mankind is
enabled to exist; consequently mans
acts in relation to business is not wholly
subject to the ineZorable laws Of political
economists. This principle is recoGniz-
cd by the law when it provides for the
support of charitable institutions. IF
the law can thus tax capital for the main
teEance Of charitable institutions, why
can it not with more justice be compelled
TO adjust itself to circumstances amcliora-
sive of the condition Of the oppressed
laborer1 The able bodied Iaborer in
needy circumstances on account of in
sufficient wages should be as much an
object of solicitude to the law as the
pauper who is physically incapacitated
from supporting himself.
Political economy ''reasons but to
err when it touches on any topic in
which mans emotional nature PLAYS a
part. Every charitable impulse of our
nature is outraged by such doctrine as
that Of Nautilus. 1t is an impious sacri-
flee of morality to worldly science to en-
ploy any means, not sanctioned by chasti-
ty, and humanity, to check human pro
hagation. The family is the unit of SO.
riety. They have reciprocal duties.
The individual IS punishable for offenses
against society. The advancement of in.
dlvlduals in intelligence. morals and
wealth when taken in the aggregate CON
stitute the general advancement of So
ciety. If the individual thus contributes
70 the support and progress of society,
should not society in turn be compelled
so do its duty to the individual An6
does not this duty comprehend more
than mere protection 70 life and proper
~?
Capital and labor are mutually de
pendent on each other. Then
interests are identical. But capt
tal is often shortsighted and not unfre-
quently kills the hen which lays the
golden egg. Capital can not be produc
tive without labor, but it may Cypress
labor without immediate serious dctri
ment to itself Wages are frequently
reduced SO that profits may be enlarged
Capital grows corpulent at the expense
of labor until retribution comes in riot
Capital is always first to disregard the
economic axiom Of the interdependenct
of labor and capital. Capital is concen
trated, labor is disunited. When labor
seeks to gain the strength which come.
from union, it is killed by a name ant
the alliance Of tie vicious aud depraveC
clements of society. Capital is refined
and educated, labor is generally ignoran
and sometimes brutal.
Division Of labor brings increased eff
cheney but Is ruinous TO the lahorer who
becomes skiliful III one branch by being
profoundly ignorant of all others. The
broad prairies and fertile lands of the
west rs a home for unemployed laborers
is faIprite theme with those who frame
theories with but little exercise of judg-
ment. With as much propriety might
they point cotton factories. lille for want
of raw material, to the heavy forests Of
Michigan and Maine, Division of labor
makes an operative as wholly unfit fol-
any work but that to which he is accus
toned as is machine Tor any other worb
than that for which it was designed
Division of labor gives to man n char
actcr somewhat similar to fixed capital
which is unable 70 adjust itself to strange
surroundings.
Communism is but an expression o.
dissal. sfaction by labor of the treatment
il receives at the hands of capital. The
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