The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-15


tween labor and capital. We oil know the
man With millions invested 10 In
dustrial or other enterprises employing
labor, and the man who has only his Drawn
AID his ekill TO give in return for wages, mat
capital and labor ara mutually dependent
upon each other, that their Interests are
mutual and that there should DO harmony
between them, But tho problem of the
day aye of the age, OF past ages is, and
has been how 10 effect this thing, how 10
reconcile the differences that will arise-.in
fact how 70 prevent differences. This
problem is the subject matter for the deepest
thought, the closest study, Tie most earnest
attention aud consideration OF statesmen.
We do all know That there Ia balance wheel
lacking somewhere; that in the economy OF
this life's administration, Of the worlds ebb
and flow Of affairs, there is an intqualization
that begets heart buIniDga, strifes and con-
tentions, and II seems that as time rolls on
and civilization and intelligence become
moro diifuSed, more universal and more in-
lluential, the greater this disqualification.
, 0ne o.. tho proloundesl laws of nature is that
there IL no effect without its
cause, and another law equally as profound
Is that If the cause is removed tho eject
will cease. Is there no statesman, no phi
loIopher who can discover the cause OF the
too often recurring conflicts between capital
and lsDori No statesman, no philosopher
who, having made this discovery can pres
scribe the means for the removal of that
csuseY In all ages and in all countries there
have been here aud there rich mon and
poor men; there hss been hero and there
luxurious wealth and squalid poverty.
This is. in accordance with = natural law
which no human law, no human intelligence
can prevent or avert, and history bears us out
when We say that in the past, whenever an
immensely of wealth became concentrated in
tho hands of few, while the masses were
struggling Tor bare suAtenance. wreck and
ruin and national destruction followed. Our
country happily has not yet reached
that climax. but II seems to DO
rapidly on the road to 1t. Two
decades AGO, or three at the most, tho mill
lionaires of the land we're few in number and
those who were more than nero millionaircs
scarcely outnumbered three in the entire
country. Vanderbilt with his steamships
and railroads, A 7 Stewart with his dry
goods, and John Jacob Astor with his real
estate. Now amillionaiTe can DO boosted b,
almost every community, while the Wander
bits, the Jay Goulds, the Floods, the Mac.
kcys, tho Fairs with their $20,000000, their
$4,000 900. their 800 900 600 arc common.
Besides these Individuals with their man,
moth riches we have all over the land huge
corporations, manufacturing, railroad, ct id
omne genus, with their untold millions, and
In ANY Of them, individuals and corporations,
imbued with oil the arrogance, possessed Of
all the power and the disposition 10 use that
prwer, that money ever gives. Two decades
ago, or three at the outside, our country knew
nothing Of that univssaliiy of squalid
poverty that now alas il knows. Now,
while We have this immensely of riches con-
centratcd in so few hands, we have also n
country with ,ramps homeless, hopeless
wanderers on the face of the earth, goinr
from door. 10 door asking for bread, and
sleeping here, there, on tho commons, I'M
bAIns or wherever best they can when night
hnds them. 1t 10 true tina. there Is not a
uuiyoralisy of abjoct poverty, but the masses
are IN great measure at tho mercy of some
favored few individuals and corporations. Ii
10 a fact that there are
two or three men, who can, by
agreement controlling IS they do the railroad
systems OF the entire country, make millions
OF money in single day each. How ask,
some one. Simply by putting up tho prico
o. railroad freight and who is
there TO say them nAyi Where
would these millions come from, save from
tho pockets of the peoplel Are not the PEG.
Pile, the, masses, then at the mercy of cap
itNs Two or three decades ago, we had no
trades unions In ,his country, no crganizS,
tions of labor In It's different lines. What
has lod 10 them II not that immutable law,
that divluo law, wo may we'll say, of self de-
fenoo-deience against the power, the sxsc-
tions of cspitAl! Agler the stagnation in
business of ovory character and kind which
prevailed In this country for period up 10 e
fow years ago had ended, and ,he present era
o. prosperity dawnod upon u, and overy n
du,ry aud enterprise became active, Il
s'emed ~ though every one should DO happy
and DO able 10 prepare fora rainy day, TO
use homely expression, but this hns rot
boon tho cas-. Truo, there ha, bron
work for almost oil willing hands, and a,
seemingly rcmunerAIlvo prices, but Il isa
lsm'ntabls fact, ~ investigation will show,
that but few wigo mon have saved ary.
ting, have boon abl, to lay anything up
I ais can reasonably be sscribed bu, ~ cnr
@ u,t-'he grasping sel1shncss aud greed of
capital. Capital may have given employ
men, 10 labor, and paid reasonably we'll for
II, but hss no, capital gotten It bs,k again
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