Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-09

cent. But, let me see. Have I received
as much pay as | have edtaed or ray en-
ployer could afford to pay?
HE CAN READ,
and goes to studying the quotations on
the raw material, he knows to q dot the
cost of manufacturing, and also The prop
retors price. He has not forgotten fg-
ur.ng entirely lthougb he has had little
practice for twenty years. 50 he b0rrows
a pencil and proceeds TO demonstrate.
And what does he fnd? Why simply
that, where he has received 81 as wages
the employer could we'll have afforded
to pay him So aud still have a hand
some profit, The retailer has made no
complaint about the price Of he goods;
and why should he? the consumer has
to foot the bill, finally. Ia this frame of
mind, and with the quotations, figures
&c. Ill his pocket be calls a meeting of
his shopmates in some secret Dzace-to do
tins publicly would subject them all 10
dlscharge-and lays the result of bis in
vestigatons before them With one ac-
cord they say: We will stand this inius-
tlce no longer; our wives and little ones
shall be fed and clothed as becomes the
sons of honest toll.
WE WILL STRIKE
We will demand fair share of the result
of our labor. The proprietor fumes and
tears, inveighs against the rascallv con
spirators for meddling with his business,
but all to no purpose. The "conspira
tors have formed d "Union," under
written constitution and bylaws (they
can write) to stand by each other as long
as one OF them has a penny left, or until
the proprietor is willing t. pay fair wages
for good work. And the worst of it all
is, that the same state of affairs exists all
over the country, and to discharge these
men means closing of the establish
ment.
The reader is by this time, probably,
ready to ADMIT that the public school is
fraud. You see, the parents of this en-
ploye were too poor to educate the boy at 1
private institution, so that, only for the
murh-vaunted public school he would
have remained docile, dutiful workman.
asking no questions, doing no thinking,
making no tell.tale figures and behaving
generally as becomes a worthy human
machine.
WE HAVE NO OBJECTION
to the education of rich mems sons-too
proud to work and too lazy too steal-at
private schools and colleges, to become
lawyers, doctors, preachers or what not,
but an education totally units man to
become an obedient, reliable laborer.
The southern STAKEHOLDER understood this
question to perfection. Instead OF a
school teacher, preacher was employed
on every large plantation to preach to the
darkies from the text: Servants obey
your Masters" Slave labor was reliable
until the fanatical
NORTHERN sCHOOLMARM
was permitted to poison the minds of the
] negro with a desire for an education and
the idea that ''the laborer is worthy of his
hire" Next, the northern abolitionist,
slowly and stealthily, but surely, taught
the "contented and happy slave that it
was wrong for capital to ossn its labor;
and the consequence was, frequent
"strikes" for freedom, and at last bloody
and costly war. To make labor reliable
in the Northern States we swould recon-
mend that the whole public school sys-
tenn be abolished, so that none but those
who are rich enough to live without work
shall receive an education. Turn the
school fund over to the churches, and
make attendance at divine. worship, of the
laboring classes, compulsory. Compel
clergymen to preach principally about
Lazarus and the rich man; about the cam
Ell trying to crawl through the eye of a
needle, &C., &c.; that Vanderbilt, Jay
Gould, Alex. Mitchell and all rich men
will surely go to hell when they die; that
the pay of "skilled workmen" al the
building of Solomon's temple was one
penny day and no grumbling allowed,
and that every poor man who. puts in SIX
honest days work in week and is will
ing to take whatever his employer has
mind to pay him, without fault-6nding,
shall have reserved seat in Abraham's
bosom by the side of Lazarus. Why
should the laboring SSman wish to lay up
something for wife and children, or for
spell of sickness, or for old age when he
is no longer able to work. Poor-houses
have been established in every county for
him and his, SO that the desire for more
than bare living is both foolish and per-
nicious. Believing that we have accomp-