The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-09-04

listening to their daring fctions, and
not only the discontented and unsuc-
cessful, but many who make a fair
living where they are, pull up stakes
sooner or later, and cross the Atlantic.
Arriving as they do with exaggerated
expectations, they make the most dis
heartening experiences, and end by cur
sing, not their own credulity, but the
land which they hold responsible for
their misfortunes. 1t takes very little to
persuade them that everything is wrong
here, and they readily lend ear to the
wild vaporings of so-called labor-refor-
mers who attribute their ill luck, not to
any fault of their own, but to the ili-
putty of capitalists and the perverse OF
ganization Of society.
1t is time that the fiction we're eXpl d
cd that America offers comfortable
living to every man who is willing to
work. Whether she does or not depends
largely upon the quality of the man and
the quality of work. Skilled labor is, as
rule, better paid here than it is in
EUROPE, but with unskilled labor the
MAJ ket is glutted; the supply exceeds
the demand The man who arrives here
with two empty hands and no particu-
lar previous training is, therefore, 10y no
means sure of anelioratng his condition
even if he be ever so willing to apply
his crude mu sole to amy JOB that may
off II itself. Wherever he turns, he will
find that an union ofsome sort monopo-
Lies the market; and if he underbids
the union, or ventures to work outside
Of it, he is denoninated ga scab," and
risks serious injury to life and limb,
| Even if he jim the union. he does
not thereby make sure of chance to
earn IL living. He may he ordered OF
strike before he has laid hy a dollar, il
order to avenge, not his own, but some
body's else grievance; OF he may b,
commanded to commit illegal acts tina
will sooner or later land him in jail. Ii
fact, his path is 80 beset with Danger
and difficulties that it finally become
a sort Of relief to him to give up til,
game, to curse the society which, aftel
having held out inducements to allure
him away from his old home, has, as ia,
as he can learn, no place for him outsd,
of the pcnitent,try. Let him, after se
rles Of such experiences, come i'll contac
with Most, Citizen, Schwab, or thei
disciples, and it is not wonderful thai
hc listens to them. The frantic talk
WHICH to prosperous people appears "
ridiculous to hini.S ciety had assumed
50 h Jsl lie AL attitude toward him that
he OBJ, Us but II uat,lrll impulse i'll retur
ming the hostility with interest.
1t will thus be seen that it is no
alone the idle and vicious immigran
who is i'll danger If becoming an anar
clisy. Hunger is great revolutiJnist
and hunger d res not, in the presen
state Of the labor market, nuceSsaril
i'm 'ly unwillingnesS to work. I efrien
OF Most wlo were arrested and seulel
i with him for melting to bloods
) We're hard working Germans, fath.r'A
families tone having eleven or lively
c ,ildren). who did not pr ctice in +
tie fe tn predatory doctrines VIII
. in pubic they recommended. Their thu
/: o"e,ic.l ferocity (Which they would III
d ubtedly have translated into practic
f, if it coull have been done with imp
nity) was apparently induced by di
appointments and privatiens. A,
thousands, like them, are conyrate
to the same detestable doctrines, no
A as the newspapers seem TO think,
i innate depravity, but by the discrepa
i cy between what they expected an
e what they have achieved-by their i
X ability to cope with the hard conc
g tons of life which the i'm Migrant Ii
% borer in this country has to encounte
-CunyregationaliSt.