The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-01-17
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. SATURDAY, JANUARY II, 1880.

should not have provided for reorgan
izing the labor Of the landlords, but o
the landless lords,-not only of the
fixed labor, but of the unfixed labor
Let not the negro laborer think that
he is the only factor in this question
that he is the only fly on the bulbs
horn-while he is here in such num-
bers as now, he is certainly the objec-
tive point in the argument, but all
unskilled labor must be organized, the
white as well as the black; all must
be controlled by the same laws and
the same rules; laws that shall elevate
both in the scales of society from
tramps and paupers to true laborers,
when, being recognized as citizens of
the State, State authority and State
power shall regulate the system of
labor, substituting laws which shall
be uniform and just to all, for laws
which are private and individual,
rules which are uncertain, unreliable,
variable, unjust and pernicious.
This does not lead to slavery or any
thing like it. 1t is only perfect free
dom, the highest liberty inside of
order; justice to the State and to soci-
city, with full freedom to all under the
law. Property in man is as odious to
moral as to civilization, and has
always been so; but property in the
labor of man is just to him who claims
it, and to him who comedies it for
reasonable wages, but once conceded,it
mtst be subject to control under just
laws to both. The State must become
the master at large, and acting
through a sworn and bound magistra-
cy throughout her dominion, regulate
and control the labor rights of the
landlords, as well as the liberty and
rights Of Of her laborers. And this
only recognizes the divine law, that
all must labor; not as Cuffy, in jana
oa works, or as the freed men Of the
South work, but employing in connec-
5ion with the fundamental and Nation
5ional law, the only means, State
bower, by which either Cuffy, or the
reedmen can be made to perform their
luty to themselves or society-in a
word, civil enforcement. Thereby
making the laborers' labor and
he landlords capital coreIative, Sc
uring to the one property right in
he services and capital of the capi-
alists, and to the other u property
light in the services and sinews of the
aborer, producing the largest return
ossible from this just cooperation;
he greatest interest from the Invesu-
1ent of the capital; and protecting
are, comfortable subsistence, thor
ugh reasonable wages, and full civil
berty to the laborer-a unification of
lterests.
IL Will Dc SStltt bIllS Is COIllptilSlOIl, I
owcver, worked out by the Legisla- |
We wisdom of the State. Let it be !
limited. All organized society is {
undcd on the idea of restraint. q
very advance in civilization is L
trough regulations, which, if they do '
ot take away, abridge some national l.
animal right, and every develop s
ent of true life, or labor, in all its Il
carries the essential idea of il
lty enforced by positive law, making Y
straint a necessity absolute on all =,
en-. Therefore, the prosperity of the h
ate demands that the dormant in y
lstrial capacity of the negro race, if q, -
remains here, must be developed by h
oper organization, through the Leg t.
ative wisdom of the State; and the a.
range must grapple with the subject, =
opt a true degree of laborcr, and Ell CO
zee it. W