The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-04

eigner had or still has to do is no argu-
ment. I am not striving for better
comparative condition as 3 slave; am
opposed to all slavery. / am not com
planning that you do not drive me easier
than your father did. l am complain.
ing that you or anvone can drive me at
all. / say thatif you are planning and
!, am executing. then we should receive
equally the results of our combined eff
forts"
"Yes," answers the capitatalist, "but /
not only work with you and as hard as
YOU do, but furnish all the capital"
THAT is true" says the laborer. "but
you first took all your capital out of me
before you had it to furnish. am will
ing to.forgive you for haYing robbed me
in the past if you will take the proceeds
and go in with me from now onward"
"Yes," SAYS the capitalist. "but have
taken all the risk
"That is true" answers the laborer;
but nature fixed the penalty to robbery
in the start, it is no fault of mine that
capital must take the risk. You may
thank fortune that you do not have to
risk your neck also, as many other per-
sons have to who accumulate for selfish
ends One mans right TO accumulate
from another mans productions is get
ting out of fashion,"
"Yes," answers the capitalist, II know
private robbery, the plunderiug of ar.
mics, piracy and slavery are getting,
and in fact have got, ont of fashion, but
l got my monev by business principles
"Yes," says the laborer, "'you hire me
land produce So in day and you give
me one and take one yourself"
isn't that fair ?" asks the capitalist.
"Yes." answers the laborer, when
you have power to hire only one. but
when you hire 10000 you get $l0,O 900 per
day and the producers only 81. This is
not fair because if the principle can be
extended in this way then you might
hire all the world and thus have hall
the world produced and thus force all
the world to live on only half of its pro-
duction. When you hired me alone
YOU furnished half the power and 1t was
fair that you should have half the pro
ceeds. though you did the thinking ano
I did the manual labor. But when yor
hired me and another man then you
only furnished one-third of the power,
and if you were allowed to take half o
the proceeds you would have leverage
on me and the other man. When Yor
Z hired me alone produced So; we hac
81 apiece. When you hire another mai
! we produce 81. and it is fair that WI
have $1t each. If you take particle
more than one.third of the proceeds vol
! take leverage against US that will SOM
I day reduce US to servitude to you.
| when you hire one man, two mel
I, or 10000 men you must remember tina
you are only one OF the lot and are onl!
, furnishing one-man cover to the in
o stitution, and therefore should recelv
). only one mans pay. 1t is true tha
o whore you hire 10000 of US and tax
r. s., 900 for your part for your daV's pay l
: is only 10 cents apiece out of us and W
don't feel it. It Is not the 10 cents W
@ lose that we complain of, or the fact tha
o you get $1,000 day to our 81. W
@ complain because that 10 cents fron
each of us puts you and us 30 out.of pro
= portion that it soon makes YOU maste
O over US and our condition, and we be
o come slaves to you and the condition
surrounding US.
f 1--WE object not to the loss of the l
o cents but to the loss of those otis c
power that 60 with it that soon under
o mine our liberties. We are not fghtln
o for coppers and nickles; we are fight
\ Ing for independence and equality
Whether we are gods, men or worms W
+ want to be equal, and have, not once i
a lifetime, but every day and hour a
, equal opportunity. BY each Of us Civ
, ing you an extra nlckle we soon have
. lifetime of unequal opportunities
world of gods; if but one is god and th
q balance are deml-gods is a world of mas
y ters and slaves. We are fighting 70
equality and depending on education 70
- elevation. The extra 10 cents will ele
vate us but little, but equallty-combina
tioDg and education will elevate u
n much. We denv to every man any an
all leverage against his fellows. This l
what we are fighting about.
c. s. GRIFFIN.