The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-25

1" tHt EuttOT q me Leduer: |
CHEYENNE, WYo., Sept. D, 1879.
The resolutions of the Baptist ,Asso-
citation, published in yesterdays LEA
DER, must meet the approval of all well
meaning citizens. The conflict between
capital and labor is indeed the most
dangerous question of the present time. |
1t has rapidly assumed gigantic dimen-
sions. Before the late war, a strike was |
of exceedingly rare occurrence, and at
tracted the attention of the entire COM
Hunity. Now hardly a day passes, that
a strike or riot is not in progress In
some section of the country. In the
beginning strikes were confined to some
few persons of a particular trade who
were dissatisfied with the conduct of
their employer, being entirely local in
their character. In our day, all classes
of working men, all classes of radical
politicians, all classes of free thinkers
are in combination to overthrow exist
ing institutions and subvert the rules
that maintain law and order in the
land. AS is justly stated in the able
resolutions of the Baptist Association,
the socialistic movement Is intended to
overthrow religion, and all who are in
league and sympathy with them are
aiding in this purpose. Socialism and
communism were begotten of atheism,
the first emerging from the German,
the latter from the French school of in
fidelity. The noxious vapor of the pes
tilential marshes Of unbelief, after
brooding over the. countries in which
they were engendered, has waited over
the Atlantic, and, like a black cloud, has
enveloped our nation in moral gloom;
and what the end will be no man can
tell. The K~earneyites of California,
the Socialists of New York, the Com
munists of Chicago, are working with
frantic zeal to destroy the republic, and
sweep away the laws that protect pro-
perty. The workingmen's societies, Or
gained for n more honorable purpose,
and composed of more honorable men,
are unwittingly aiding in this nefarious
design.
The socialistic and communistic ele-
ment alone could effect but little, with.
out the cooperation of the working.
mems leagues; herein lies their power.
The workingmen, unlike the foreign
%agitators, have good cause for discon.
tent, in the gRsping avarice displayed
by the capitalists of the country. The
conduct of their employers has hurried
them into unlawful and unreasonable
acts, the commission of which has rem
dered them in ma ny instances liable t,
p~unishmeht and caused them to forge
the good opinion of the great mass o.
the people.
As the Association states in its reso
l~utions of yesterday, tyranny exercised
by either labor or capital should bt
punished by law. 1t seems evident
however, that the key to the solution O
these social difficulties is held by tn,
capitalists. When the people complain
the people are always right, said
Mireaubeau, when universal disconten
exists among the working classes of thu
country, there is cause for it; the la
borer is worthy of his hire; the mel
whose efforts accumulate millions o
dollars, are justly entitledt to n portion
of it, sufficient tossupport their familie
in comfort and to educate their child
ren. We have no privileged class il
this country; we have no serfs or peas
ants. The artisan and the laborer is
man, and entitled to the privileges O
manhood, to be fed as a man to b
educated as a man, and to lead the lf
of a man; not the existence of Il Eu
ropean serf, or peasant, or boor.
do not claim that he should be al
lowed an equal portion with his EN-
ployer. 1 do not place agent and prin
/ cipal, servant and master, on the sa m
level. l do not entertain the romantic
idea that the clerk, though a mode
young man, should be admitted to cour
and marry the merchants daughter
| but l do claim that the American
workingman should be considered as
fellow citizen, entitled to the rights an
dignity of true manhood. When capital
| lists embrace this view, and act in &c
cordance with it, the workingmen wi
3 speedily detach themselves from socia
istic parties with which they have n
affinity. q.
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! least money are sold by
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