Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-17

you smlte the entire community. Or, 4
fall back on the old tent.msker's figure
what if the eye should say, Il am th,
overseer of this physical anatomy; an
independent of ell the other members; j
there is anything dispise it is those mis-
ersble and low.lived ingsrsP What i
the hand should say: II am boss workman
/ am independent of all the other members
look at the callous in my palm and tht
knots of my knuckles; if there is anything
/ hate it Is the human eve, seated under
the dome Of the forehead, doing nothing
but lookp Now, We come in this morn
ing to break up that quarrel, and we say
"Oh! silly eye, how soon you would swim
in death if ysu had not the hand to sup
port and defend you. Oh! silly hand, yoU
would be mere fumbler in the darkness i
it were not for the human eye" The eye
cannot say unto the hand, l have no need
of thee"
Relic. will come TO the working classes
of this country through a better under
standiDg between Capital and Labor
Before this contest goes much further II
WI besfoand thar their interestsare fden'
teal; what helps one helps both. Show
me any point in the worlds history Of six
thousand years where Capital was prosper
ed and Labor oppressed, or where Labor
was prospered and Capital oppressed.
WHAT Is THE STATE OF THINGS Yow2
Labor at its wits end to get bread. Capi
tai at its wits end to pay the taxes and to
keep the store and factory running. Show
me any point in the last fifty years were
Capital was getting large accumulation
and l will show you the point at which
Labor was getting large wages, and l will
show you the point where Capital was get
ting large profits. Until the crack Of
doom there will be no relief for the work
ing classes until there is a better under
between Labor and Capital and
this war ends. Every speech that Capital
makes against Labor is an adjournment oi
our national prosperity. Every speech
that Labor makes against Capital is an ad-
journment of our natural prosperity.
When the Capital of the country malignS
Labor it is the eye cursing the hand.
When Labor maligns Capital it is the
hand cursing the eye. The
capitalists of the country, so far
IS | know them, are successful lsborers.
II the capitalists in this house to day would
draw their glove, you would see the broken
the scar Of an old blister, here
aud there sifieDed frger joint The
great publishers of New York and Phila-
delphia, so far as / know them, were
or printers on small pay. The
carriage manufacturers of the country
used to ssndpsper the wsgonbodies in the
shop On the other hand,
you will find in ali our great establish
nents men on wages who used 10 employ
heir one hundred or fvs hundred hands
PkTER COOPER
was a glue. maker. No one begrudged him
his million of dollars, for he built Cooper
Institute and swung open it's doors for
very poor m Ian 8 son, and sGid to the day
aborer: Send your boy up to my lnsti.
tute if you want him to have a splendid
And a young man OF this
church was the other day walking in
Greenwood Cemetery and he So"
swo young men patting flowers
On the grave of Peter Cooper. My friend
supposed the young men we're relatives Of
Peter Cooper and decorated his grave for
h 1t reason. NO" they said, I'VE put
h.se flowers on his grave because it was
through him we got our education
A6rsbsm Yau Nest was a harness maker
N New York Through economy and in
lus.ry and skill he got o great fortune
He gave away to help others hundreds oi
thousands OF dollors. shall never forget
he scene WHEN |, q green country lad,
stopped at his house and after passing the
evening with him he came to the door and
.sme outside aud said: Here, Dewitt, is
ilty dollars to get books with. Don't say
ANYTHING about it And | never did Till
the good old man was gone The wealthy
men of the twentieth century are in these
az. fourteen years of the nineteenth
century sitting with their feet on the shut
.'e, CT standing up Swinging the pickaxe,
Or doing some kind Of hard work, and from
he same classes are to come the philoso.
,hers and poets and orators. Henry Clay
vas "the Millboy of the Slashes" Hugh
Miller, a stone mason; Columbus, weaver;
HALEY, q soap boiler; Arkwright, barber;
he learned Bloomfield, O shoe maker;
Hogarth, An engrsver Of pewter plate. and
Horace Greeley started life in New York
With ten dollars and seventy.fve cents in
ais pocket, -,
The distance betweea Capital and Labor
Is not a great gulf owe: which is swung q
Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a
,tep, aud the labore-s here will cross OVER
and become capitalists, and the capitalists
will cross over anq become laborsrs.
Would to God they would shake hands
while they are crossing, these from one
,ide and those from the other side.
THE CoMBATANTs IN THIS GREAT WAR
between Capital and labor are chiefly, OF
he Que side. men or fortune who have nev
sr been obliged to toll and who despiee
labor, and, on the other hand, men who
could get labor, but will not have it, will
not stick toit. 1t is the hand cursing the
eve or the eye oursing tine hand. want
i understood that the laborers are the
highest style Of capitalists. Where is their
inyestmentH In the bank2 No. In rail-
road stock1 No. Their muscles, their
nerves, their bones, their mechanical skill.
their physical health, are the highest kind
Of capital The man who has two feet, and
two ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers
owns a machinery that puts into nothing.
ness Corl sss engine and all the railroad
rolling stock, and all the csfpet and
screw, and cotton factories on the planet.
| wave the asg OF tFuos this morning be-
tween these contestants. ] demand ces'
sation OF hostiEties between Labor and
Capital. What is good for one is good for
both. What is bad for onsis bad for both
Again: Relief will come to the working
classes Of this country through q coopera
tive association. ! am nOt now referring
20 trades unions. We may hereafter dis
cuss that question Bu, | refer to that plan
By which laborers become their own capi
tsIists, taking their surpluses and putting
them together and csr;JioS on great en-
terprisss. In Euglaud and Wales there are
765 cooperative associations, with thre'
hundred thousand members, with capita
of fourteen million of dollars, doing busi