Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-06

CATION to his country, and permitted
its interests to be managed and con-
trolled by unfriendly hands, or cor
rrpt hearts or both.
. That this nation has most pressing
wants just now, and for the most
speedy supply therefor, there is an i'm
perious demand and just behind them
turks most threatening dangers to the
peace and prosperity of the whole
country is as easy of DEMONSTRATION as
the dangers are alarming.
PANICs AND STRIKES.
For full half century, almost with
mathematical precision, each denun-
cial period has brought with it what
has become to be known, the world
over, as panics, financial commissions
of such gigantic proportions as to end
industry, annihilate commerce, dis
turb all commercial relations, both
domestic and foreign, involving the
very revenues, credit and stability of
both state and national government,
taking the homes from the citizens of
estates, and the very bread
from the tables of the poor. The ex-
tent and horrors of which, were fully
exhibited in that one which culminat-
ed in 1873, and broke over the whole
land like grand cyclone, sending
ruin, desolation, and want to every
farm and hamlet, even, between the
oceans, the terrible details of which
are all too fresh in our memories.
And sagacious men say, they see the
indications that the close of
the present decade, will be no excep-
ton in this regard from its Immediate
predecessors.
Looking in another direction, we
shall see, that ever since the war,
there has become common what in the
nomenclature of to-day, are known as
Strikes" organized and prosecuted
by the laborers, mainly skilled,
throughout the whole land, and so
frequent and of such vast proportions
have these become, that they bode
only evil. The labor and commerce
of the nation are at their mercy, and
life and property are rendered wholly
Insecure. These laborers organized
into societies, reaching through the
whole nation, making an army on
the one side, while employers, cor
porations, capital, organize their
forces, making another and belig-
gerent army, sections of which come
into armed conflict, and blood flows
in our streets like water, and the
flames consume substantial parts of
whole cities.
Even to-day, there are such organ
into two forces, standing face
to face, ready at any moment for
attack or defence or both, in all the
North and South and East; strike
of grand but alarming proportions,
being in full operations, throughout
these section, that there shall be a
bloodless termination of it, is but an
hope; and when or what
ever may be it's ending, it has already
wrought much of damage and want
and suffering.
For all their phenomina and con-
ditions there must be an efficient
cause, and may be easily found, and
when found, it will be seen, that its
exisistence is attributable, alone, to
the people, who, while being the vic
tins, have full power, as the rulers
to remove alike the cause, and the ef-
fects, and to forever prevent the re-
occurrence of either panic Or strike.
as well all other cognate evils.
THE CONFLICT.
All these evils which have beon sug.
gested are but the sabre -crash-the
cannon roar and musket rattle of the
continued and eternal confiict
between capitol and labor-a strife
provoked by capital for control
domination over labor. The true re
lation between capital and labor, il
that of master and servant, employer
and employed-of the workman and
his implements labor being the mss
ter, the employer-the workman,
while capital is the servant-the en-
ployee the implement. Capital il
not content with this position. 1t de
mands to dominate labor, to contro
it, to own it. Labor will not consen
to be the bondslnen of money ano
hence, the conflict. And it will con
tinue until both are ruined and TIN
government with it, unless, at once, ,th'
aid to labor, due to it from both Stat'
and Federal governments, be given it
These two beligerent forces in th'
contest, are blind Simpsons, pulling
at the pillars of the Temple of oul
government, and unless the strife b.
ended, by proper government aid, tn,
pillars will yield, and labor, capita
and American liberty, will find a com
mon grave in theruins of the govern
ment itself.
Labor is the production of values
From it comes all the revenues an,
support of the government, and is tn
foundation and source of every othe
material interest. From it com
all the productions of the farm ant
the loom, the mines and the fur
|naces.-the mills and the machin
shop,-canals and railroads,-tele
graphs and telephones,-the steame
and the vessel, the printing pres
and the newspaper,-books an
schools, churches and bridges, =
everything of comfort,-necessity o
luxury,-of exchange,-traffic or com
merce, and, in this sense, a vast ma
jority of all the American citizens ar
laborers, while the balance are eithe
idlers Or worse, professional politi
clans or capitalists.
1t viii be perceived, that the on
grand national interest is labor; an
concerning which, Lincoln, Will
President in solemn state, paper
declared that s'labor is prior to an
independent of capital. Capital is onl
the fruit of labor and could neve
have existed if labor had not first eS
isted; labor is the superior of capt..
and deserves much the highest COZ
sideration;" and Webster more tina
Ia third of century ago, declared, i
the Federal senate, that "the gre;
interest Of the country, the producin
1f Ill b. ta1