Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Money and Labor.

Making a grano total OF 81, ,4Ol,-
100000. There is a ready market
at good prices for everything there is
to sell.
In the light of these facts, may We
not well ask, why so much discomfort
and so many strikes among the labor
ing classes2 1t must be that there is
not an equitable distribution among
the different classes of our people as
many think there ought to be, and
that wages for labor is not commen-
surate with the profits of capital.
A week or two ago we showed that
the profit on S5O,OOO,OOO invested in
manufacture of iron and steel was 81
per cent. and that laborers in the bus
mess received an average of S400 per
capita per annum, and that the rich
we're growing richer off the poor mans
labor, while the laborer was pinched
for the necessaries of life and getting
no better off.
The Doylestown Pa Democrat, in
speaking of this subject, says:
'whiict money is worth its value and is of great
use in all respects in business affairs, 1t is consid
cred that the profits demanded for its far
beyond the profits made by the use of hand or me-
anical skill or educational forces or In commerce
or manufactures or professional or scientific labors
of any kind, that the affairs of society are bearing
too heavily on the non-money holders and too lightly
on money ed monopolies. Add to this disquiet re-
view of the extravaganza of State legislatures and
especially of Congress- in giving away the peoples
money to everybody that asks and to every scheme
that is presented asking for it. Millions upon mil
lions of dollars are voted every day to some pre-
tended scheme or other, and more and yet more is
still the cry. There seems to be no end of objects
nor end to charities. 1t is wonder there is COM
plant. The wonder, the surprise should be, and is
that the people are as submissive and quescent as
they seem to be. Such excesses of extravaganza in
whiting away and drveling out Of the treasury the
taxes levied and collected off the people by coolly
giving thousands and millions of 1t to set of peu-
stoned vagabonds and blood-smkers and class of
male and female government pets, never before
known in the history of the world. Things cannot
go on in this way always. The most tame and sub
missye will refuse finally to yield. The burden is
crushing and the weight is chatting. Men are grow
ing tired. 1t is so. This is no fancy sketch.
Daily observation proves its truth. Everywhere the
working masses are showing signs of dissatisfaction
on account of the determinations in favor of the
moneyed classes and against the workingmen.
There will have to be balancing up and adjust
ment of accounts. More equality must be brought
about, or there will be trouble sooner or later.
President Arthur and his adjuncts understand
this as well as everybody else. Hence the movement
to put the old bulldog back again into the army.
They are afraid Of the effect their high handed ex-
cesses in trifing with the people and sacrificing
their rights and property may produce, and want
Grant around, that he may be ready to head the
army and suppress any uprising their excuses might
per possibility insgate. What else do they propose
to put him back into the army for? The country is
at peace with all the world; quiet reigns supreme
among ourselves; no complications or vexatious
questions exist between our government and the
governments of the world generally and no speck Of
war trouble danger threatens from any quarter,
except it be here at home in their own guilty con-
sciences. They know they are robbing and oppress-
ing the people. They know they are running the
government into Capitalization, and are accumulat
ing large estates to become nabobs titled noblemen
and grandees when the end Of their schemes shall
bring the masses to their knees and the controlling
spirit into power and authority to rule with rod Of
iron and monarch's nod.
Whois to battle the watch with them but the old
unterrifed Democracy of an hundred years tradi-
tons? The Democratic party always has been and
is the only barrier in the road of these designing
proigates 1t is the lion that lies in their pathway
and all they fear. All other combinations and par
tisan movements are mere side shows-ropes of sand
to be snapped at the touch. The old Jeffersonian
Democracy they are the men and this is the party
that has always graz pied the enemies of the people,
come In what shape, take what name or put on what
uniform they might. The Democratic line has al
ways met the charge and hurled back the assaiants
Of the people. 1t Ia the hope Of the republic to-day
Here let every true Democrat, every man that be-
eves in equal justice to all men, take his stand and
the country may yet be safe."