Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-28

FORT WORTH, Tex, May 2l 1856
Mr. Editor In my brief communication
which you were kind enough to print, q
few weeks ago gave short conceive
| prescription Tor the cure OF the evils aud
grievances of the laboring people of this
country and for many other ills, in these
words "Close the saloons, and open
more schools"
The theory of this prescription is so
graphically presented in my New York
paper mat have cut 1t out, now send
1t to you with the request TO publish IT,,
il you think rs do that it will aid the
people the working people, to see and
understand those plain common sense
rules, which when seen and understood
and pracliced will drive away all their
wrongs and secure them prosperity and
happiness. Yours truly, b.
SAVING BETTER THAN STIRLING
A time will come, it is to be hoped,
when labor societies will coRkider them
selves under obligations, hot alone to
maintain the rate OF wages, but to see
that when earned those wages are ration
ally and useiully employed. Hitherto
there has been too much question OF what
men should receive for their labor, and
too little question Of how they should ex
pend their earnings. Workingmen insist
that the sympathy of the public ought TO
be with them in their struggles to improve
their situation. They do not reflect that
to deserve this complete sympathy it is
incumbent on them to show that they do
not waste their earnings. If man earns
thousand dollars year, aud chooses TO
spend fourth Of his income in superAu
tiles, and, moreover, in mschiovous
supernuities such as drink, be cannot
make much OF showing in complaining
of his poverty. 1t is alleged that the
drlnk-bill of this country is 5000, 900, 900.
To apportion half Of that outlay to the
working classes is certainly not an I'M
reasonable division. What fund
for the Improvement Of the condition of
labor Is here worse than flung away
Even a trenchment OF 30 per cent in this
one source of waste would produce a cap
ltal large enough to establish cooperative
industries all over the country, and to
give to organized labor the impetus which
It's leaders declare can only be supplied
10y money. But in face of the fact that
the worktngmen at present prefer to
spend this great sum in drink, is it not
nonsense to assert that they are hanal
capped in the race for prosperity
by anyhands but their own? Moth. |
Jug more conclusively demon |
strates the familiar axiom that the
capitalization OF wealth implies thrift |
The capitalists are not,as too many work. |
ngmen seem to imagine, a class of wicked |
nen who by some unholy means have got
lold OF masses Of money. They are sim
ply the men who have practiced self |
ienial who have saved instead OF spend. |
ng their surplus earnings; who have mt (
{ 10 interest prudent'y as opportunity
'efyedi whe have always expended less
han they earned. Hundreds of them
legan poor; not seldom bv day labor
3ut even when they only earned 81 so a
lay they saved something, and this rule
4 life has brought them competence.
The man who cannot practice self.
enial viii never be rich, though Tho
ours of labor should be reduced one.
all and the current wages be increased
hundred per cent. The thrifty man can
ave out OF the merest plttance. The
nthrifty wi fall behinu on an income of
$4,000 year. When the labor OF n conn.
~ complains OF its condition at the same ,
line that 1t Is spsnding $500 00o 600
ear upon beer aud whisky, what can 10
nought OF the genulneness of its grley-
uces, OF It's Intelligence, OF its fitness for
f0Sressy Let It De admitted that under
Nlsting conditions every man is entitled {
waste his substance as he pleases; il -,
ssnredly does not follow that. hayIns !,
asted u, he Is entitled to claim MS the !
teet OF general injustice the material
Jury ne has deliberately brought npon
lmset, American labor owes IL To IN.
'ii 70 help itself, and its first duty Is not !
disturb the national industry and com.
erce ny unreasonable strikes, but 10 ?
low that II has the sclf-denial, thrift and
importance which alone can lift n 10 n
CHER plane, While the enormous leak i
the wage-fund represented BY the drink, / i