The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-02-20

iadiesmsas % work iasse are ss5ssst's or
fear Of scant, and the dssire for letter being,
---or, that personal ambition which impels
usto better our fortunes and that Of our
family.
In other and colder regions, in States with
dense, homogeneous populations, with the
same general Gins and aspirations and nat
ural capacities, it may be that one or both
Of these labor motives, are sufficiently GER
tain and active Of themselves TO force the
simple labor class to perform their labor
obligations but that they are not sufficient
for this purpose in Free Labor Republican
form Of government, all statistics prove,
showing, as they do, terrible amount Of
crime, restitution and death, caused by the
failure Of society 70 realize the great objects
Of is formation, tie personal existence, Sc
curity and progress Of all its members. And,
heretofore in Free Labor States, where a
great apparent prosperity was exhibited
/ Il can be shown-this, in great measure
| due TO the enormous and immense wealth,
produced elsewhere, under different social
order of things, and distributed among
/ them by the agency Of commerce in supply
ing the wants Of trade and thereby adding
greatly 10 their prosperity by giving en-
! ployment to their populations.
In semi-tropical regions like ours, where
| the great mass OF simple laborers, are of an
! inferior race-the lowest in the scale Of hu-
manity, where from mildness of climate,
and natural fruitlulness OF soil, necessity or
fear Of want is almost totally absent, and,
where the ldiosyncrasies Of this race are
such as to deprive them in great measure
of all those higher attributes Of mind and
soul, common TO other races, leaving them
utterly devoid of personal pride, family and
State pride-those great factors of every
State greatness. Isay, these being the facts,
showing as they do, the weakness and inert
ness of the only two labor motives, presents
very diflicicult problem for solution.
The question of the employment Of the
simple labor class, involves the relation of
labor and capital, or employer, and en-
ployee for they cannot get employment,
without some one to employ-and, more or
less means or capital TO work with.
If the capital Of the employer is idle, he
suffers loss the laborer is idle, he too
Losses and others with whom they both
have business relations, also loose in fact it
becomes a community and State loss; for
the idleness Of capital and labor, is decreas-
ed production and wealth, and realizes de-
creased consumption, and therefore affects
inuriously the general welfare; and thus
we see the interest Of both employer and
employee, require them to associate and
come together for their mutual, individual
benefit, and that of the State the one fur
nishng the intelligence and developing the
enterprise to work on, and the capital to
work with, and the other doing the work.
The relation of employer and employee
therefore, is neither one sided nor two sided;
for there are three interests involved, and
three parties to it; the interest of employer
and employee, and the general welfare or
that of the State wherefore, the relation
should not be altogether professionalism
by the caprice or mistaken ignorance of the
employer or employee, but should be some.
what public in its nature, and depending on
the States wisdom for its proper regula-
ton.
Association is the duty of both parties,
Iemployer and employee, for neither can
serve his individual interest," nor perform
his SECRETARY obligation to work without
it.
The employer having capital to loose by
ideness, and therefore damaged by its loss,
and being more intelligent and thoughtful
and possessed of more, desires his ambition
to improve his condition, is an active and
sufficient motive for effort on his part but,
the simple laborer may fail to perform his
labor obligation, either from thoughtless
apathy, indifference, or total absence of the
ordinary labor motives; and thus the en-
ployer is ruined, thereby weakening and les
sening the States ability, to perform its first
great SECRETARY duty, to provide subsistence
and security for all; this is the right of every
one the duty to secure it is sacred, and
failure to perform it a crime. But duties
the performance of which involve results
essential and absolutely necessary to the
general welfare should be so regulated by
law as to make their execution certain and
unshunable
The industrial campaign, which has for its
object the existence, security and progress
OF all, involves the great paramount duty,
and Is OF far more Importance to the State
than any military campaign ever waged for
its defence; for, without the certain and
profitable management of the first, there
will be but little power and ability to carry
on successfully the latter
| For the accomplishment of essential and
necessary ends there must be certain and
unfailiug means; these the law must provide;
law is rule of conduct, the expression of
what is right and the repression of what is
wrong. Legislation, therefore, must give
us such laws as will so regulate the relation
between the employer and employee of the
simple labor class, as will secure the per-
Torrance of the duties of each; the duties
of both parties must be defined by the
State, the supreme arbiter, which alone has
the goodness, wisdom and power to furnish
a remedy for every wrong.
But legislation must be practical, and in
accordance with the SECRETARY facts and be-
cause they differ so widely from those ex-
listing in other communities is no reason
why the State should not so adapt its legis.
ation to the facts as to control and make
them work for the greatest good to all and
each, and that too, without violating the
principles of personal liberty, expediency,
truth and justice.
The climatic fact is important for it
qualities, in great measure, the conditions
to be controlled for the general good. How
to utilize the many seasons in which farm
work can be done, and the great variety of
field crops which can be grown and brought
to market; the great fact agriculture is es-
sential to the prosperity OF all other inter-
ests, embraces at the same time
the question Of such industrial order
and association of labor and capital