, 1882-09-22
Communicated.
PoRr ANGELES, Sept. 20, 1882.

poRr ANGELES, Sept. 20, 1882.
EDITOR AEuUs:-
Since tho political pot has begun to
boil there will be some excuse for "A
neaceable citizen to express his views on
noGtical subjects. | will bet (if that is
allowed in your estimable paper that
there is not one in ten of the law abiding
citizens who have to work for living
Int regret the frequency of our elections,
and would sooner see 1T every tour years
instead Of two. When will State and
Territorial government settle down and
consider laws good enough until tried!
We have scarcely law in our Statutes
which has been put to the test before II
has been repealed or amended. Why Is
this? Well, have heard many say We
send too many lawyers to the Lesisla-
ture who try to roll logs to their own
mill. 1t may be so or not, but as an
humble citizen | must say that our Leg
islatures III the past have had too mucn
log rolling TO do to attend to the legiti-
mate wa. ts OF the people.
No wonder We are having strikes all
over the country, wien legislation is
tmpered with and bought to increase
tne power of monopoiists to coerce the
laboring man, and bring him down to
the level of the Russian serf, with no
margin for sickness or the education Of
his children. Everything must 30 to
swell the capitalists income and freeze
out labor. The time is not far distant
when labor will be heard, and legisla-
ton not be to the highest bidders con-
troll. Capital is worthless without labor,
and rice UerSd Capital and labor shOnld
80 hand in hand so that each should feel
when tine other is affected, but when cap
ital dictates terms TO labor and buys up
legislatures to inforce it, and makes labor
feel the pang of hunger, it is not worthy
of the protection that labor glvesit. Let
MS picture labor and capital an
tagonistic all over the country. What
have we but force? When all law is set
aside, then il labor must dictate (Which
God forbid, we have but Commune,
who will set aside all laws to protect
capital, and their war cry will be DIVIDE!
Then comes anarchy and mob rule.
Capitalists and monopolists ought to
take warning from the signs of the past,
and not tempt the future by grinding
poor man down, and making him curse
vne day he was born.
There is no use denying these fast APP
rroaching facts; labor and capital must
w,rk in harmony, and those who have
been fortunate in this worlds struggle
for wealth must not forget the words OF
that glorious document, the Declaration
of Indepe endence which says that all men
We're born free ard equal. Chance put
more dollars and cents in some mems
pockets, leaving the majority poor, de-
pending on days pay for manual labor,
no matter how humble. BY right they
ought to be respected, and when capital
lists and monopolists meet together to
buy up legislators to grind labor down
to mere living there is trouble ahead.
Now, Mr.. Editor, as You arc one of the
majority, and have always been out
spoken on the subject, let your paper be
open to discussion and give labor fair
chance, and il you see that monopolists
are trying to run our elections come
right to the front, and let labor know
what you know SO they may at the polls
give them a peaceful defeat. So may 1t
be. HUSTLER.