The Labor enquirer., 1886-01-30
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and tended their csttle, have handled
and kept tally 'M this freight, have run
the trains, have Ding tho coal sCe have
msde the boots and lhoes and have re-
turned them to the vast. We owe the
capitalist but the paltry cost Of bis scrub
wearing, fed to natrrity on our lands.
the use OF his rt,sds and machinery, and
no interest on flls money. These are
put fraction OF their cost to US.
The palaces which We are accustomed
to say money has built, labor has built.
Iheu are our oscp. We have quarried
the rock, nodded tho brick, burned the
lime, mixed the paint. made the glass,
mined the iron, and that. while we fur
nished our OWE tools and boarded our
selves.
The curtains, the carpets the mantles..
the china, the table-hnen, the silver, the
beds, the bedding and the gentle heat
which tempers the winter Wind to the
lamb of usury, are by right eight-tenths,
our oson; vet even the solid walnut bed
on which the complacent capitalist
dreams of his profits gives forth no echo
of the sturdy blows i,f the woodman's
axe. of the cunning hand which fash
ioned its mouldings and its rich cary
ings or of the inventive brain which
coils beneath him in its hundred springs
to break the jar of the restless turnings
of his pampered, idle flesh.
Sisters, let us work for each other and
not for the idle The thousand beauti-
full devices of cur hands of skill, the nv
Rad dainty difhes which our ingenuity
devises from the haryests of nature
which we have cosxed to fruition, the
Interesting and instructive literature we
print, the charming pictures we paint
and engraye, the comfortable seats we
upholster; why snail lthey not beautify
our oaosa homes and enlarge our minds
and ives2 We nae.y if we WiU, ri lie in
the carriages we make, drawn by the
fine, spirited, intelligent horses we raise.
We may dress in the fruit Of native
looms. We may wear our own roses.
We may prinG or engrave ourown cards,
tYpewrite our own correspondence and
manuscript. We may plead our own
cases. heal our own sick, endow and pat
ronize our own colleges, and journey in
palace cars or ships in search of health
OF pleasure or knowledge to every land
beneath the sun ; aye, when we ,oiH we
may vote oar op,a money away which
"we the people, have made for common
use. ~ s.a r..
But it is not without an effort and q
struggle that this social state may be
reached, Letus begin the effort now.
Let us exchange with one another on
the basis of Liberty, Equality and Fra
ternity the products Of hand or brain or
voice or universal love; remembering
that each of us might have been any
other but for the accidents of circum-
stances, as we are oH but scintlllations
from the great light that saves and illu-
mines the world. 6-
For the sake of our children let us en-
franchise ourselves, and as our fore
mothers fore,wore the tea which came
to be the sigr of their enslavement to
the king, let us learn to live aotthout the
money which becomes each year ydearer
and dearer al our labor becomes cheaper
and cheaper until in the disgraceful
scramble for it the old adage is again
proven true that "the JoVe of money is
the root of all evils
But, says some ardent greenbacker
"Shall we renounee our cherished idea
and principal that the government must
issue its own money on the cheapest
material possible and in sufficient vol
ume for the use of all? ?" By no means.
By every known way of agitation and
education we will hasten the day when
paper currency shall be plentiful and
money sink to its proper level in our re-
gard; but while we are awaiting the
good time coming we will return to the
old barter custom, reduce tito system
and science, and, reviving that almost
forgotten injunction "love thy nelghbor
as thyself," apply it in our every day
business transactions. Ouricapital stock
shall be theexhaustless resources of ma,
ture and our assets and liabilities the
boundless capabilities of BUR mbition
and energy, our labor and cur love.
81 MRS. A. L. WAsHBURN.
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