Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-03-06

equal chance with the capitalist IN the
race OF lite. Let US not enact laws in
the interests OF one class TO the detri.
ment Of another laws that may seem
ingly benefit richer class Of society,
but in their application nro often per
verted to the great injury OF the work.
ing classes and always disastrous to
industrial pursuits. Legislation Tor
the capitalist has natural tendency
10 engender a conflict between labor
and capital, and want Of proper
knowledge Of the harmony Of their in
terests often creates a spirit OF resist.
ance on the part Of the working classes
resulting in an organization Of com.
binod efforts TO redress their supposed
wrongs, which frequently leads TO law.
less methods TO secure their end.
Harmony between labor and capital
is the true relation all else ia an un-
natural condition. Capital inds its
greatest return in the contentment and
willing service Of labor and to labor,
capital IL the highest and greatest
benefactor Without means 70 put in
operation tho great works Of the age,
the idustrial energies Of the nation
would be paralyzcd. Capital in this
country is generally the accumulation
OF past labor. He who hoards not bis
gains, but diffuses them in the execu-
tion Of great designs for the improve
ment Of society and the development
of civilization, is that benetactOr to
tho human race who makes two blades
Of grass grow where one grew before.
agree with the Representative from
Iowa Mr. Deering], who raid upon
this floor few days since
Capital and the industries Of the country are
co operative and the two interests ire insepara-
BILE. But divide the owners of capital into two
classes those who gamble in stocks and specu-
late on the fluctuations 10 money and securities
aud, secondly, those whose money eirculatts
among the people and be- seek investments in
! such actiye enterprises and improvements as will
provide ,mpluy Iurnt for labor aud enlarge the
bounds Of industry. An igislation thatten ~ TO
stimulate ard encourage the operations Of this
class Of apitalisis Is In the interest Of labor and
is more productive Of good results to the working
| classes thAh ulreet leBhhlloh.
Give the workingmen Of our coun-
try employment with living remunera-
tive wages, and with hearts full OF hope
and an enthusiasm born of conscious
power they will move on in the grand
struggle of life, and mountains will be
leveled, valleys filed, tunnels bored
through the eternal bills, forests cleared,
iron rails laid across II continent fur.
naces aud iorg.s made to roar and
blast, mines opened, and factories and
workshops send forth The smoke Of in
dustry. Nowhere in the world has
the result OF harmonious union OF
capits and labor been developed in II
higher degree and to greater extent
in all its usefulness than in our own
country. The American nation began
its existence with population Of less
than three millions aud with an area
of territory less than eight hundred
thousand square miles.
A century has passed, and under the
stimulus OF republican form of gov
ernment administered with Il liberal
policy we have now population OF
not less than forty-fve millions, and an
area of territory OF nearly four million
square miles. Our nag noats rom rrn
to sea amid the waving wheattelds OF
the valley and the snow-crested peaks
OF our mountains. The developments
OF ouragricultural industries have been
unprecedented IN the history of the
world. The assessed value Of farms
and farm stock in the United States in
1870 was $1,000, 900, 900, and farm
products aud farm wages Tor the year
1869 amounted to upwards of S3,0O0,'
100000.
The value of the products OF our
manufactures has advanced from $50.
100000 to $4,000, 100000. Foreign
aud domestic commerce have increased
with gigantic proportions, and until
the policy Of the party in power during
the last sixteen years, in connection
with the inroads made by the war, has
almos; destroyed our commerce, it was
tho pride aud boast of the American
patriot that the sails of our merchant
fleet whiened every sea, bearing the
products OF our soil and our industries
to every nation and people whose
shores were washed by the tides OF
ocean. When we behold the results
of the vast labor that within hundred
years hns been performed within our
borders, aud then witness the starving
condition OF the workingmen all ovei
the land, we are compelled to ask our
selves and our wise men and political
economists, what has produced thi'
result.
With all our boasted wealth, indus
try, and intelligence, with our vast re
sources, with the energy and courage
of our many millions of population, We
are to day very far from Il state of gen
eral prosperity. On looking around VI
we behold nearly all our industria
pursuits parayzed. Trade languishe'
and commerce has died away. Oul
workshops are closed, the fires of oul
furnaces and iOrges have gone out, anc
nearly all forms Of productive industry
are unremuneralive. Thousands o
workmen with honest hearts and will
ing hands are without labor and then
families are starving in their homes
Labor strikes have been inauguratcC
! in various parts Of the country, anc
misguided, excited men, suffering from
effects of unremunerative wages, have
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organized government and spreading
terror and dcsolation everywhere OF
their destructive march In the Ian
guagc Of the Senator from Nevada
To this country the distress Of labor, reaching
q point never before known. ha. eliminated II
mohs which have given ominaus expression Il
The despair of the people. Tho Army OF th
United States, never before usei for such pur
y 60, has been called upon within a tselvcmontt
10 perfotm police duty, TO p'eserse social order
and to ? oicci private properly The advocate
Of the gold po,,v, conscious apparently that
J will make chronic this condition Of ihiags and
permanently d,mand tho same remedy. have In
sisted that the numbers II The Army should mol
only be Lcpt up but enlarged, not 10 resist fureigt
enemi,s, guard forts, or enforce the laws Of th'
United States. but to rspr - the rioious uprslnl
OF hungry, naked, freezing, and frantic popu
lace
The New York Tribune, OF the al
inst, editorially says:
ore Of the most terribly significant incident
connected with the loss of the Metropolis las
week was ihr fact that ono hour ais,r the new
that the thip had gone down arrived In ph'lade'
phia wrb all The exaggerated horrors Of hrs
di-ratch, the office Of the Mvssrs. Collins wes b.
sciged with hundreds Of hunger bitten, deeen
men, begging fr the places f the drowne'
labprers In this citv there have been over
thousand applicants At the agrney Tor New 'ut'
wales to bs sent out ~ laberers aud mechanics Of
r the oipper ship siarting this month for SYDNEY.
These p, ope rspresent but fraction OF th
gr at mass II unemployed poor 10 the cities mel
r who are not pauptrs fram iaelinsiipn any NOR
than the most t-rrfpectable reader Of the Tsfbsas
honest, inpustrious, frugal, In the majority o