St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-11

DdSe Ddl1 ana SparrlllS IltliClIcS III lHC Oi1H
on Sunday, and made a short but Sprlghtly
speech. in which he expressed the hope
that the laws would be so framed or
changed that smuggling matches and base
bah games ON that day could be stopped.
Mr. Murray explained that there was
no trouble about it. as the ordinances
We're sufficient now 10 accomplish
the desired object Then Capt.
Berkey wanted to know why it was that
these slugging matches were allowed on
Sunday. NJ Murray explained that Mayor
1ite WAS ont Of the city, and through some
mistake some one Of the city officers gave
his consent or permitted the ball game to be
played. He presumed it would not occur
again, as he knew the mayor would not
allow it. The matter was then referred to
the committee on legislation.
THE LABOR TROUBLES.
Gen. Sanborn. president of the board, at
the meeting the previous week, presented
the following preamble and resolutions,
which were laid over for one week without
printing. When they were taken up again
yesterday they were again laid over and
directed TO be printed. They are as follows:
Whereas, the enterprise and prosperity Of
Shis city and the country generally has been
IN some degree paralyzed and checked by the
discomfort and dissatisfaction OF theorists and
demagogues, comparatively small in number.
acting by and through organizations formed
for the coInmendabe purpose of promoting
he best interests of the laboring classes;
therefore,
Resolved, By the board of directors of
she st. Paul chamber OF commerce, that
re deeply regret and deplor5 all acts by any
aud all Organizations, the inevitable tendency
Of which is to paralyZe the enterprise and
eaken the confidence OF the public in our
continued prosperity, and we see in such acts
results seriously detrimental TO all classes OF
"ur people and destructive OF the best inter-
ssts of the laboring classes.
Resolved, That while il is among the high
est duties of all governments to secure ade
quate and ample compensation for labor, that
his cannot be done by any sumptuary or ar
bitrary laws fixing rates of compensation, or
hours or times OF work, but only by such gen
eral public policies as will stimulate enter
prise and capital and thereby make the de-
mand for labor equal to or greater than the
supply, and thus enhance its value, and that
any policy and all ACTS by governments, or
Eanizations and Individuals which tend to
paralyze enterprise and 'intimidatc capital
must vastly diminish the demand for labor
and necessarily largely reduce its compensa-
lion. and hence should be resisted by all
classes and especially by the laboring class.
Resolved, That III the vast increase of the
detective, dependent and DELINQUENT classes
Of insane, idiotic, blind and dear $4,000 con-
victs, 100000 paupers and more than 100000
disabled i'll the war in the armies OF the
United States and Confederate states. all of
whom, whether on the pension rolls or not
have to be supported by the industry of the
country, together with the necessary support
end maintainance of the army and navy, and
more than 100, 600 men employed in the vari-
Gus offices of the municipal. state and national
governments, aQd the payment OF interest
apon municipal, state and national debts
amounting to about s., 600, coo, 600 while the
proportion of our population engaged in pro-
ductiye industry is less than 80 per cent. of
the whole number, are to be found the real
burdens of labor, under which it groanS and
strives to carry burdens which it is lily able
20 bear; and that the policy of putting the
expense of the support of all the convlctS of
the land upon the honest industry of the
country instead of compelling such convicts
70 labor for their own support and to aid in
defraying the expenses of the government
whose laws they have violated, can be nothing
less than crime against labor, and an i'm
rnunity to criminals by the state from the
common curse which rests upon all; and that
We are in favor of that class of hard labor for
criminals in which they can be made to earn
most for the state and thereby most relieve
honest labor from its heavy burdens The
convict should work for the public and not
the public for the convict
Resolved That the inevitable effect of all
laws tending to take away from or interiors
with the private and individual right of every
man to make such contracts III regard to his
personal services or private property as he
may deem expedient and proper. is to dis
courage ali enterprise, curtail prosperity and
reduce the compensation of and degrade la
Dor aud laborers; and we are unalterably oD-
5oosed to al laws limiting hours, or days, or
wees, OF months of labor, otherwise than as
provided by contracts entered into by and be-
tween employers and employees, and are in
favor of every man working where he pleases,
for whom he pleases AID for such compensa-
ton 81 II lsases, and declare those to be the
aheaable natural rights of all men, to secure
witch governments are instituted, and in
Sailing to secure which they forfeit the re-
epect and confidence of mankind.
Resolved, That there is not and never can
be any real antagonsm between the capital
end iDh5r engaged in the ordinary enterprises
.tse country. That one is the constant STAY
- - IOrt of the other, and that all appar-
TT conflict is imaginary and quixotic; and
that Tor this reason when large parties of la
borers in the employment of corporations per-
forming quasi public services as common car
1iers imagine that they are oppressed by
their employers, it would ordinarily be expe-
dent and wise to arbitrate such contro YER
sizes, that both parties may have full and
positive knowledge as to the earnings and ex-
penses of the enterprises in which they are
engaged and the advantages and disadvan-
tages OF each.
Resolved, That the dsproportionate in
crease of the wage-earning class of our popu-
lation during the last decade over the in
crease of our whole population by more than
LOCO, 600 persons, and the decrease of the ag-
ricultural or bread-winning class below it's
proportion of the population as shown by the
census of 1870 by more than 40 000 Gle arlv
indicat e the tendency of our people to aban-
don their homes and the methods of living of
their fathers and adopt wage or day labor in
place of labor upon farms and homesteads to
such an extent as may prove detrimental to
the public interest, and hence that this ten
dency should be discouraged in all proper
ways.
Resolved, That the system which has grown
up and long existed in all the states of the
Union, and which has been adopted by the
federal government, of creating CORPORATIONS
for all purposes with the right to issue stock.
whether paid for or not to the company. and
without liability on the part of stockholders
except at the suit OF creditor OF the corpor-
alton after its assets have been exhausted in
connection with the system of winding no
the affairs of insolyent corporations whereby
properties oftentimes of the value of many
millions of dollars are' obtained by small
combination of capitalists for q few thousand
dollars, is little less than legalizing larcenv
upon the grandeSt scale, and has done much
to create widespread discomfort and distr4rst
in our system of government and laws. and
has resulted in the accumulation OF vast
overgrown estates, exceeding in valae in
some instances the assessed valuation of the
DroDerty of entire states, and while such eS-
tates add nothing to the happiness of their
owners they deprive thousands OF our people
of the lust share of the accumulated wealth
of the country; aud hence we favor such
eh apges and notifications in the claws relatin,.
to c Operations rs shall prohibit the issue o.