Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-24

strating the fact, that the demand for labor
is dimishing, while the actual production Is
increasing, and as the consumption Is limit
/ ed by the demand, and the demand is lin
| tied by the ability to purchase, and the want
of employment greatly impairs that liberty,
the farn,;ng products of the country must
/ command 9 minimum price-a price so low
| that no one can afford to engage in farming,
unless he can execute it by machinery. The
same principle applies equally as we'll in all
| other industries Il is obvious then. that
only the wealthy can hope to succeed in
any line ofhusnesa enterprise, for they alone
cen utilize machinery, and machinery alone
can enable them 10 succeed
From this aspect of tue case We are
driven 10 the conclusion that the rich will
grow richer, and the poor poorer. Enter
prising men, aware Ct this state OF affairs,
have eagerly organized companies, ssaoci-
ations and syndicates, and combined their
capital to accomplish by corporation what
they could never do singly. SO long as cap.
itai can command machinery, and machin
cry can accomplish with rnucn greater facil-
ity and much less eypensr nearly all the
ends of Industrial enterprise, what must be
the fate of the laboring classes? Before dis
cussing this question it will he well 10 ex-
plain that it Is not designed 10 affirm that
all combinations OF capital Operating the
most approved machinery, viii l." success-
tu!. For the comp ii ion ii al"rhinGry is
even now 80 great that The pratits iinve been
reduced 10 such IL "uGn! n!Ai3!a that only
the largest, most prudent and energetic ope-
rations can bear off the palm.
Again there are race peculiarites which
enable some races 10 live and thrive under
circumstances and influences which wonid
be lata "a other races. Horses can not haa"
the .elia iii-,reatment and common food
That th.' nuts can, nor can the mule bear
the same burthen an ak can on the same
food and treatment. Just SO, the white race
can not labor and live under the same sur
rounding and food the other cnored RACES
can To drive the white man from tae hud
Of intelligent enterprise by the use oE ma
chinery, will be, aye, has aireahy brought
him into competition with the lever races
in the most meuial worh. The result. must
necessarily be in every respecf, Ge;rin entail
to the whites II, however, by greater
outstrip the inferior race, and drive them
from the field, these will cultivate those in
stinc!s which are peculiarly their own, and
become Il terror to the community in which
they live. Rapine, murder and arson will
run riol III the land, aud education so called
will only be utilized to devise ways Of mis-
chief, and means Of escaping detection. On
the other hand, the higher race will devise
ways and means 10 cater 10 the several ap-
petites and passions Of the ider, who are
always vicious, and brotheiS, bagnos, and
gambling dens and :. thousand Gthar sinks
of iniquity under the mere refined names OF
operas, theatres, rinkS, germans. &c. Will
decoy the young from the path CT virtue,
and the social atmosphere will be contami-
mated with q moral pollution. IF l read
Alright the lessons o. history, o" have painted
correctly the moral promises OF this great
problem, the conclusion is logical that we
are surely entering ncW err, trei2hted
with all the ills which can gloom christianity
aud drive patriotism to despair.
Even Is lhe old counties of Europe where
the race question does not obtain, q state of
things very similar to the above already ex
lists, and it requires aIi the skill Of states
manship and the energy Gf power to avert
universal reign oi auarchy. Standing arm
les of stupendous magnitude. TINS drawing
from the productive Classes millions of men,
are maintained Public works Of every
description are projected by the govern
ment TO give employment 10 millions more,
ard thus the impending crisis ia stayed from
day TO Gay. This mighty strnin upon the
productive energies oithe more frugal masses
and the s!esp'ess vigilance of the govern
ment cannos always last, for soon it must
cuminate IL grand upheaval and mighty
crash Then the hoary monarchies OF
Europe will topple from their thrones, the
pIethoric millions will be over aud over
decima,e'i. ana the whole continent will be
baptized in deiuge Of blood, while the
sceptres Of power will pass into other and
unknown hands.
How to solve this problem, or avert the
rapidly approaching crisis in the United
States are questions of the most momentous
magnitude. and should claim the Profound
est study of statesmen, philanthropists and
Christians, aud into their hands, [ cheer
fully relegate them. HANOVER.