The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-11
POLITICS AND WAGES.
9ATH iNDULGES IN SOME REFleC-
TiONS ON BOTH.
Situation in New York-Labor's Future
Sunset Cox's Jerusalem Ohio Repub-
licans Gathering-Foraker's Com
petitors-P Points Political.

CINCINNATI, June IL. l.-Gath's dispatch in
The Enquirer contains the following:
The Democratic party at present consists
ot the southern states and the opponents Of
Mr. Blaine. The state of New York has no
fixed status; it Is neither Democratic nor
Republican. 1t votes according to its mo-
mentary resentments and the status of its
business.
IL business continues to grow worse it will
be anti Democratic next November, unless
the people can be made to believe that the
injury to business is of Republican antece.
ients. Indiana il the only Democratic
northern state, nnless New Jersey be counted
in the same list But New Jersey is feeling,
not only in its manufactures but in
the general price of every thing, the hard
ness of the times.
IL Cleveland's administration slips back
and gives no relief, the Republicans will ex-
pect to run New York after next Novem-
Der, or there may be a great labor party
arise
With this administration being solely re-
sponsible for the condition of business, ac-
cording to the public view, for at least six
months a prolonged dullness will shake one
Or the other of the old parties to pieces. The
presidents force Of character has made
some impression on the Republican party !;
but this force of character has been exsr-
cised to deprive Democratic expectants Of
official favor
Everybody can see from the condition of
| matters this summer in A merica that labor
| is not going to take back seat forever, but
that the revolution begun for equality Of
chance, under jefferson and the French,
will proceed to more equality of dividends
and results to labor There is no other solu-
| ton Of modern times and movements
| Take the great strikes at present in Pitts.
burg and the west The manufacturers
there are mainly young clerks who have had
the handling of manufactured goods, and
from the organization of the business have
spread to ad jacent parts When the times
get bad they turn the hands off, and wheI
the times are good they run two sets oi
hands day and night Thus they refuse t
have any losses for themselves, but put al
the losses on the operatives, and when they
are doing well they get nearly all the profit
The next step, undoubtedly, in the grea
revolution of man is the promotion OF labo
to its honest dividends in the results of bust
ness There will be, of course, "ha-ha
upon this, but it will not have much echo
De Tocqusville predicted, whom in thi
country half a century ago, that tn
manufacturing system might ultimatel,
put the world back t. the bondag
Of feudal times. He said that divis
ion of labor would make the mechanic
dullard, and would promote the sagacit.
and foresight of the employer. He showed
how, by being given one single thing to d.
all day long and all year long, the artisal
would lose both his mind and his artist
nature.
Our manufactures will be governed here
after upon better principles of equity.
We are just in the dawn of that regensra
tion. The laborers will live less in pig
sites and more with reference to a life settle
| mant