The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02

have no souls. This is said in regard
to the relations between a corporation
and the individual laborer. And it
may be more truly said that capital is
cruel and has no regard for labor.
IF the number of laborers is doubled,
capital reduces the Individual wage
one-half. The New York Tribune
saws ut has been estimated there
are two hundred thousand women in
this city alone who wholly or partly
depend upon the labor of their hands
for living. There can be no doubt
that every advantage is taken of their
helplessness, and that they are SO in
sufficiently paid in most instances as
to be, unable, even working from II to
16 hours day, to do more than keep
themselves alive. Their individual
necessities compel them so to maintain
the pressure Of competition that their
labor market is always glutted, and
therefore wages remain at the starya-
ton point"
A New PRINCIPLE.
Supply and demand is one of the
unalterable laws of our existence. In
its primary form it enables the capital
lists of New York city to secure the
labor of these 100000 women, and fails
to supply them with enough to afford
them healthy, comfortable existence.
They are overworked, and do not have
sufficient wholesome food. Sickness,
pain and premature death results in
thousands Of cases, and still there is
an oyer-supply of women who are COM
PEELED to work for less than enough to
keep body and soul together. Intelli-
gence and organization has developed
new principle in this law of supply
and demand. 1t enables the working
man to demand enough wages to afford
his family comfortable, civilized ex-
istence, and gives him the power to
enforce his demands. The intelligence
of the working man enables him to
know and comprehend that his daily
labor ought to afford him decent iv-
ing and enable him to provide for his
own household. The union of the
working men enables him to protect
themselves, promote their interests and
enforce their rights. This is evidently
and purely the object Of their organiza-
ton. They understand, too. the value
and the rights of capital, and no war
will be made upon it.
WHAT CAN We Do?
There ought to be no conflict between
labor and capital. Wars are costly
affairs to both sides. Under the pres
emit relations capital seeks to acquire
all it can Of the profits of labor, with
no regard for the laborer. And labor
desires to acquire all it can of the
profits of capital with no regard for the
good of the capitalist. Both make the
law of supply and demand contributory
as far as possible to their respective in
terests, and no other principle of action
is recognized in the relations of capital
and labor except to "get all you can. +"
Under this condition of things there
must be never-ending conflict. The
only way to end the conflict is to unite
tremendously the two conflicting
forces into one body to labor for one
purpose. Make the working man a
capitalist, and it will be for his own
interest to labor for the welfare of
capital. Give him a share in the
profits of an enterprise, and it will be
for his interest to seek to enhance the
profits. This is practicable to great
extent; sufficiently so to obviate all
difficulties. It is but a question of
ways and means. The working man
should own his homo and garden, and
then he would always be interested in
maintaining property rights. TO ac-
complish this will require the help of
philanthropic persons. The saloon
business is the greatest enemy of the
workingman. Many of them drink a
good building lot every year of their
lives. R.