The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-05-27

bookbnders orpnnters on small pay, Tho
carriage manufacturers Of the country used
10 sandpaper wagon bodies In the wheel
wright'6 shop, On the other hand, you
will find In all our great establishments
men on wages who used TO employ their
ono hundred or five hundred mon.
Peter Cooper was glue-maker. No one
beRrudged him his millions OF dollars, for
he built Cooper Institute, and swung open
iM doors for every poor mans son, and
said 10 the day laborer. "Send your boy up
10 my institute II you want him 10 have a
splendid education" And young man
OF this church was the other day walking
In Greenwood cemetery and he saw two
young men putting flowers on the grave of
Peter Cooper, My friend supposed the
young men were relatives Of Peter Cooper,
and decorated his grave for that reason,
"No," they said, 1--WE put these flowers on
his grave because II was through him We
got our education" Abraham Van Nest
was harness -makerln NowYork. Through
economy and industry and skill no got q
great fortune, llo gave away TO help
others hundreds Of thousands Of dollars,
shall never forget the scene when !, green
country lad, stopped at his house, andNfle
passing the evening with him he. came TO
the door and came outside and said, "llere,
Dewitt is 500 to got books with. Don't
say anything about IT," And | never did
I'LL the good old man was gone, The
wealthy mon Of hetwentlelh century are In
these last fourteen yeOrs of the nineteenth
century sitting with their feet on the shut
tic, or standing mp swinging the pickayo,
or doing some kind Of hard work, and from
thosnme classes are TO come the philosophers
and poets and orators, lleniy Clay was
"tho Nillhoy Of lhoSlnHhesi' Hugh Miller
stOuo-mNson, Columbus q weaver, HALEY
q soap p-boiloT Aywight q barb6T tho
learned Bloomfield % fhoomnkeT llogarth
ON onqayer OF pewter plate, and Horace
Greeley started life In New York with slO,75
IN his pocket
Tho distance between capital and labor
" not q great gulf over which is swung q
Niagara suspension bridge. II is only a
step, aud the luhorors here will cross over
and become capitalists and the capitalists
will cross over aud become lRborcrs, Would
to Gou they would .hnko hands whilo thoy
are crossing, those from one side aud those
from the other side,
The comhatants In this groot war be.
tween capital and labor are chiefly, ON the
one side, men of fortune who have mover
been obliged 10 toll, and who dospisa labor,
and, on th' other hand, men who could got
labor, but will not have II, will not stick to
H. II ia the hand cursing the eye or the eye
curgng the hand, | want Il understood
that the lnborers are the highest style Of
capitalists, Whore Ia their inyestment2
In the bankY No, In rmlroad slork} No
Their muscles, their nerves, their bones,
their mechanical skill, thelrphyaicol health,
are the highest kind Of capital, The man who
has two feet, and two ears, and two eyes,
and ten fingers, owns machinery that puts
into nothingnoss Corliss' engine and all
the railroad rolling-stock and all the
carpet and screw and cotton factories on
the planet, wave the flag Of truce this
morning between those contestants, i de-
mnnd cessation Of hostilities between
labor and capital What is good for one
ia good for both, What Ia bad for one is
bad fm both.
Again, relief will como TO the working
classes Of this country through co-opcra.
tive association. ! nm not now referring
TO tradoR-unions, We may hereafter dis
cuss that question But / ref0r TO that
plan by which laborcrs become their own
capitalists, taking their surpluaoa and
putting th0m together aud carrying on
great enterprises In England and Walos
thOro are 400 cooperative associations,
with three hundred thousand mOmbors,
with u capital OF li,OOn,00O, doing bug-
ness In one year TO the amount Of S57 ,0OO,-
900. In Troy, New York, there was q Coz
operative iron foundry association. II
worked we'll long enough 10 give mn idea
Of what could bo accomplished whom the
experiment Ia fully developed Thomas
Brasaoy, one Of the first Of tho Engliah
parliament declared "Co.opcration Ia
the ono aud only solution Of this question,
II is the sole path by which the laboring
clnssos M whole, or any large number of
them, will over emerge from the hand-to-
mouth mode Of living, and get their share
In the rewards and honora Of our advanced
Thomas Hughes, the Oblest
aud The most brilliant friend of the work.
ingmoni Lord Derby, John Stuart Mill,
men who gave half their lifetime to tho
study Of this question, all favor oo.opora.
tive association,
Tho principle WIS illustrated In Ireland.
One day mail coach traveller found man
In The water repairing dam.
"Aro You working by yoursClfY" inquired
the traveller "Yoa,H was the answer.
"Whcro Ia your stowOrd2" ave have no
steward" "Who is your mastor2n ave
have no mnslor We are on now systom,h
'Thon who sent You TO do this work."
"Tho committee "Whois the commlltooYn
'Somo Of the mombors,n "What mcmbora
do You moOn2" oskcd the visitor, "rho
plowmcn and lOborors who nro appointed
by us rs committee. bolong to the now
Byetomitos,"
You say that thoro have boon great fail.
urOs IN that direction. | admit IT, Every
great movement nj the start is Il failure.
The application Of steam power failure,
oloctro.lolcgrOphy failure, railrouding q
failure, but after awhile the worlds chief
Successes, | hear some aay; "Why, II In
absurd TO talk of surplus 10 DO put into
This cooperative association, when men
can hardly get onough to eat and wear and
take care of thoir families | reply. Put
Into my hand the money spont In the last
I've years In this country by the lnborng
VlWNHNN lNI run Nnu lNuNVtpi Nnu VIII
start u operative institution OF monetary
power that will aurposs any financial insti.
tuition In the United States,
Again, | remark thnt roliof will como 10
The working ClNgsoe through moro thorough
discovery ON the part Of employers that Il Ia
bost for thom 10 let their employees know lust
how matters stand, The most OF the capital.
lists Of to-day Nro making less than 0pcr cent,
less than o per cent, less than per cent,
on their Investments, Here and there Ia an
anaconda swallowing down everything, but
such are the exceptions. II IL often tho
cnsc that employees blanc thoir employer
because they suppose ho Ia getting along
glnudly whom hc is oppressed TO the lust
point Of oppression, ! know n mnnurnc.
lwor who employed moro than thousand
hands. said to him "Do you ever have
Amy trouble with your worl,mcn2 Do you
have amy Htikosh "No,n h0 snid. oWhatl
Ia this time of OnRry discussion between
capital and labor, no olroubo2' "Nono at all
-none." snid allow In that2" "Woll,"
he said, 81 have way Of my own. Every
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