The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-07
COW MuNIsNE.

Editor Democrat OF all the empty twaddle
that passes current as DOlihcO-ecOnom1cal
wisdom perhaps the silliest is the ever-recur-
ring spasmodIc attempt to conciate, to
"hOney. fuggle" the t0iling, sweating masses
by informing them that there ls mo natural
conflict betlUees labor and capital" 1t appears
to me that one who makes this statemtnt
stultities himself, while giving the lie direct
to all history and denying the immutaple
laws of nature. The antagontsm, the hauu-
ral," because necessary and ineyltaDie an
tagonism between vicious, luxury-lovlng IDLE
ness on the one side, aud hard-handed toll on
the other is as old as the human race, Inc
history OF the world (oR mankindl Is hardly
more than the history Of the changing for
tunes and varying phases Of this bloody and
irrepresSible conflict. Nay, 1t is not too much
to say that the story of the worlds progress
In arts, sciences aud all the beneiiclenG fruits
OF civilization is recital OF the hard-won
victories of work over idleness-of labor over
capital.
BE It understood that there are two quite
distinct and different las we'll as antagonl5tlcl
worlds that constitute the 5enttont, thlnklhR
part Of this little earth Of ours. The one has
been described by some enthusiastic UOauy Oh
the Jenkins type Il quote from memory a'CSI
several yearB) as lcOTLd that laughs word
whose almost every ste Is IN s and " love- and
beauty, Of gentle culture and all Inc Word lin-
plies: a world whose h lrshest word isspOken
In Jest, or tempered by the perfume OF gilt
edged invitation to play, at hHhtlng until MI
wounded honor heals las 1t usually doesl by
first intention" IN. B-Jenklns Didn't say
thatil In fine IL Is world that dreams away
its idle span Of life, stlGshly, stolidly obllv-
ious and unmindful Ut the ghasly tokens OF
unspeakable sorrow and suffering by which 1t
is surrounded.
But--that other world; what shall be said
oil 1t? InrpriRtis, 1t Ii O world that never
laughs world Of stern-browed, thoughtful
bread-winners, striving with might and main,
81. TO IN Al
problem whose complications and difficulties
hourly grow more disheartening. world
whose only music is the ding-dung OF hammer
and anvil by day, and the piteous waillng OF
hungry children throughout the long watches
OF the night.
The writer OF these lines has lived in both
worlds and knows whereof he writes. lie
has revelled in the brainless, s0ulless pleas
ures" of gilt-edged socIety protected the
while by the grim and merCtlesS monster,
capital, guarding the inner gate against The
Door; and he has supped sorrow with the
most miserable and hopeless among the chill
dren OF toll and famine.
o, We willfuIly blind votaries of idleness and
self-indulgence, deeeiving yourselves by the
vain delusion that NO natural antagonislh tx'
lists between such as you and the toilng SUI
ferers about and around. you, awake from
your selfish lethatRy ere 1t be too late!
Take counsel no longer OF lie, but hasten
to invoke the tffJrts vi wise and human law
makers, If, happy, they may avert the storm
impending over us. Above all, in dealing
with this momentous problems let us throw
aside at once the vain aud therefore nation
ally characteristic fancy that our American
human nature is in any essential different
from the human nature OF European countries
and peoples, from whose lOlns we sprang
Granted that the hideous devil OF Commune
ism-the spirit of blind, murderous destruc
tlveness- though permitted to raise Its
frightful head, could not live long in u FREE
country like ours; but q furnishing tiger
loosed from his cage, requires no Uerg toni
time to accomplish tncaculable mischief.
Hoping that you may deem these views O
worth enough to justify their publication,
remain, etc, ABEL WEARIFooT.