The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-07-23
TRADE UNIONS.
Unionists, scoids Them Sharply.
and Advises Them soundly--mak-
ing War ON EmpioyerS cuts off
Their own Bread and Butter.

] =
counted their adherents and resources
by the million, while the other was
like handful Of sheep in wilderness,
Numbering but a few thousands. aud
without wealth or influence; but
knew that that was the strong party
because il was the party OF Right. II
the principle which il represented had
been without one other adherent,
should still have attached myself to it,
knowing that il held the only bit OF
impregnable ground on this continent
knowing that in urging war upon il >
enemies, j had God for n leader, and
that He and were tremendous ma
iority against the world.
/ was right that time, and have sew
eral times since taken ground pro-
nounced untenable by professional en-
gineers, and every time il has turned
out 10 be Gibraltar. / have, in fact
kind OF engineering aud mcdaniel
instinct which gives me right 10 talk
TO engineers aud mechanics; and now
say ~ locomotive drivers:
Move your camp, boysl move your
campl The fellows were a set Of dolti
who chose and surveyed the ground
you now occupy --"the ground where
you must shortly lie" il you 10 not ge'
of il. Many n noble army has been
sacrificed TO the stupidity of It's lead
ers; but none was ever led into a more
untenable position than that now oc-
cupied by the Brotherhood, that is,
IL have ANYTHING like correct chart
Of the location.
We have all heard OF railroads built
| across subterranean lakes, and of the
track suddenly going down, aud never
more being seen or heard Of; but no
rack was ever laid across a more
treacherous spot than that on which
the engineers are now encamped
There is not foot OF solid earth in the
neighborhood until thev reach the sur.
rounding nights, on which Truth. Hon
or. and Manliness have their artillery
trained upon you. There is not p
pound Of bed rock in the whole valley
At less than forty faihoms from the
urface. Strike your tents. boys, and
get ont Of that hole! You stand ovei
a subterrane,n n lake of falsehood, on 9
hin covering of hollow pretenses.
which, like reeds, have grown, anG
fallen, and decayed; which send NJ
yearly crops TO look pretty, hsrbor
Jack o-lant'rns, fall, and decay, ir
turn. Such ground can afford no mar
a firm foothold, and he who chooses Il
q doomed tn defeat in any and ever,
'erious combat.
The first assumption on which th.
Labor movement is based is antagon
ism between the interests Of employer
and employe. and this uniathomed
ialsehood must swallow any super
structure raised upon il. All the
growth il can possibly nourish must b.
| hollow, poisonous weeds, while its bad
yasses engender false lights, and oil
'he labor spent in irving to intrench il
is that much lost. Every battle fought
IN il has been n fizzle, and a war which
has such location as base of supply
must end in disastrous failure to that
side.
So deep and damning is this uunat-
ural falsehood that it has unsettled
our whole system, and threatens TO en-
| gulf our Government itself.
Look at it for moment A work.
ingman is out of employment, snG
goes to a neighbor To bemoan his fate
80 long az that neighbor gives him
words of consolation, or loans him
money. he is his friend; but, the mo.
ment he furnishes the much-needeC
employment. the relations OF these two
men are changed from that Of friend
,hip tn enmity. .-unrelenting on the
part Of the emp.oye, for his employer
5 that person with whom he is t.
keep no faith.
Instead of seeking TO build up the
business on which both depend for .
living. and thus promoting the welfar,
and prosperity OF both, the employe i.
70 lie in wait, for the employer, ready
20 spring upon him at any moment
from the dark recesses of secret com.
binatiop, Of which the one specific Oh
iect is to thwart and cripple him. L
follows that every man who employ.
another comes To feel that he has pu'
himself in the power OF one who seek.
nis hurt; that he is in dali V familiar in
.ercourse with one who has a secre'
understanding with total strangers thai
at their bidding, he will turn upon th'
nan who trusts him, the man who fur
nishes his children with bread, anC
knock out the props from under b..
house, bury his business in ruin, anc
boast of the achievement.
Is il any wonder that men who hav:
accumulated means should hesitate {
invest them in any enterprise whicl
reqires the assistance OF others? Il j
any wonder that capital goes n begging
for rinvestments, while Labor starves fo
want of employment? Any woude
that the laborer and his family go hut
CRY and naked for want Of the comfort
II life, while manufacturers and mer
chants, having these TO dispose of, ar
closing their establishments with a CT,
Of "over-production?"
There is over-productiop bccaus
there is unler-demand. There is un
der-demand because those who shoul,
be consumers are unable 10 procur
things necessary 10 supply their wants
They are thus unable because they ar
out OF work; aud they are out of woTl
because the fear OF treachery is q
great that thousands of people le
money lie idle rather than invest il il
any business that must depend o.
hired labor for success.
Plain, practical men do not want /
fight, and, rather than do so, give n
business, or they are forcibly crushe
out. The Printers Union has kille
more newspapers than Herod did chi
dren, and driven the greater part a
our book-printing 10 Europe. Othe
Unions have closed nearly all the sma
shops Of mechanics, aud thrown th
proprietors out OF work.
The monopoly Of Labor by large an
powerful combinations has forced Car
ital into large and powerful combinl
tions, which employ at enormous sali
, ries those exceptional men deemed cl
pable Of meeting all the devices Of tbs
low cunning manipulated by the mans
gers Of the Unions; and SO our bus
. ness is conducted on the principle Z
that game Of euchre played by Bi
Nye and tho Heather Chinese vh
, "did not understand" bnt had plent
, Of right-bowers in his wide sleeve.
! All the legislation procured thus "a
by the efforts OF Labor parties has ha
? two objects: First, 10 deprive ever
, laboring man Of his right 10 make h
! own contract; aud, second, 10 punis
/, any one for employing him; aud th
/, ultimate and irresistible result Of a
; now in contemplation could be moi
easily reached by bill OF this kin
than by all that have yet been offerec
BE IT EsAcrEp, That any perso
giving employment TO any laborin
man or skilled mechanic shall I
: deemed Quilty Of a penal offense, ans
!, upon conviction. shall be suhiect 10