The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-17
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ana mu,t be protected in the fruit of bis toll,
and o.ni,Al. which il but the fruit Of previ-
ous labor saved, stands on the same basis Of
intrinsic justice. Whatever would tend to rob
either party of bis just reward or make
tbis insecure OF possession, isH wrong that
not only ,irikeO at tho general industrial
efficiency, bu, makes sufferers of these who
undertake TO do tho wrong, In
the matter Of wages, the leading
considerations which determine its rate. are
the coat Of living the value Of The products
on which the labor is expended competition
a. existing in tho market, c,c. This is true
alike IS TO the msrke. value Of capital or any
other c, Iamodiiy Of commerce which labor
is. To attempt 10 fix tho yaIuo Of coin or
othos piece OF what is tgitimetoly denomi'
noted money and force people 10 take it at
the arbitrary GguIo thus G1ed, has been
demonstrated time and again 10 be as great
An sbsurdity ns was tho command OF old
Ospu,s TO Tho waves of tho tos, to regulate
,hcir Au1iouS aud oncroSchmont on his
oouutry's soil So, TOO, of the attempt to hA
the price Of bread or NEST or any other
snlcle that mankind deals in from day 10
aar The great law of sup
ply aud demand Ia at tho
bottom Of tho question of price, and that
law is based upon the propositions above
given. All attempts under views which
conflict With these fundamental principles
ara false llusory and vain, no matter
whether they proceed through.quiet legiaia-
i've enactment or through Atrikes and trAdes'
union; for iho ono may ss sensibly decree
that mountain ia n valley, and the other
a. wisely resolve that man is immortal.
The ineiIlconoy in the producing OF re-
suits will be- exactly apar. Let 1t mover
DO denied in this free country That every
workman has perfect right, SDgly or Co
operatively with his follows, 10 make his
own terms with his employers. and after
ward TO better those terms whenever he can,
or to refuse TO work at all. But the cor
relative right TO this 10 that of
the employer to better his condi,
ton by selecting other employees
who will serve him At the old or reduced
figures, 1t also involves tho right of all
other lsborers equally to do a, they please.
and without interference from these who
have refused the proliered price. Such in-
reference is as gross wrong morally and
socially toward q portion of the community,
as free As themselves, as would BIO committed
BY combination of grocers or doctors or
other TRADES OF professions TO refuse to Others
Of their fellows TO part with their goods or
services below designated price. All such
coalitions are mere temporary cIpedients TO
obtain partial advantages TO be more than
counterbAlsncs in tho reaction which Is sure
to come. In theory and on principle there
can be no objection to the existence of
.rades,uuion, but rs they are and have
been practically carried out thoy have
wholly failed of their asserted
object. They are an improvement, true, on
the guilds of tho middle sges when the con-
di,on of society was such that no rights
were sacred or safe save when defended by
the strong arm Of might. Yet asa rule
these unions of to-day fell under tho control
and dictation of men who, not having risen
high enough TO comprehend the rsai princi-
pies on which the economic structure Is
based, arc influenced by impraclicable de-
sires and aspirations which carry them into
wild and disastrous oxcesses, They prove
this almost invariably by violating at the
very outset ono Of the clearest dicta Of
common sense rs we'll as of political econ
omy, that 10. they undertake to establish
uniformity of wages irrespective of the
varying abilities and efficiency OF different
workmeu even of their own councils, and
irrespective of the supply of the labor
market, the price of the produt,
or the profits of tho employer.
It accurate u, that these trades-union in
reco amending aud aiding strikes when a
rite in wages is determined on, and which
Employers cannot rfl0rd 10 grant, would do
themselves more henOa! by utilizing their
surplu, funds not in supporting mon in
idleness, but in discovering new aeldS OF
labor Tor the membership aud aiding them
in the same, or at some distant place, and by
thus le,,ening tho supply of the particular
labor, increase the demand, or at losti
steady, II not advance the price. A divers y
Of industrial ability is an enlargement OF
personal Independence, and 10 more houors.
bic than a s,andss!ill, whining demand for q
right to earn subsistence merely by bong
o blacksmith. shoemaker, mason, prin-
ter, = lawyer, clergyman or a doctor
When cities or villages are over'crow1ed
sensible people who are tuiler-
log thorefrom, Omigrate; 60 should
II DO with tho trades and professional end
thus will duo equilibrium be main
tanned or restored, just rs in tho pbysi'a
case. Of air and vs!er. We have no more
federation for these indiscreet hot-heedec
stris~ on tho part Of the laboring clesac'
than We have patience with the ioiquii u.
com binasious of capitalists 10 improP' 1t,
raise the prices OF the poor name { o0
c,oth;ng and shelter, 70 lower the raln a.