The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-26
IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS
BIZ A THINKING MAN WHO SEES
THE COMING OONFLlCT.
Remedies Proposed for the Adjust.
ment Of the Difficulties Between
Labor and Capital.
To the Editors Of the Appeal:

To the Editors Of the Appeal:
WOODSTOCK, TENN, November 25.-
The proletarlat is rapidly becoming
the plenipotentisiy. Muscle com.
mands premium aud brains are at q
Disc unt-bottom rail on top. II is
easier now to get brains 10 give legal
opinion or o medical prescription OF
scient tic explanation than to get
muscle to split rail. The portentous
present under the American Eye
points to a repetition of the tragic
times Of Coticlanus under the Roman
Eagle. Have we a Verturia and
Virg liza to avert the dire disaster
The wild howl of the mob and shift
less, restless rsbble OF the literal
democracy threae ems to trample down
the arrogant, opulsnt snd s fish aris
tOCracy as erstWhile the latter feigued
to spurn the former. During the de-
cade Of 1910 l printed the prediction
that the ia titutiou of slavery would
shake thisGountry like an earthquake
and disrupt the government. Daniel
Webster subsequently ssid in one OF
bis grand parl amentary speeches that
if ever the Republican party got int
power they would plunge this country
into bankruptcy and deluSe it in blood.
They did ia 1860 when the d smocratic
party divided and gave them the as
ceudancy. Now write that another
and greater deluVe OF blood is immi-
nent in the coming conflict between
muscle aud brain, or lab II and capi-
tai. Labor and capital are mis-
nomers, for the man OF muscle does
less labor than the man Of brain or
capital In our Southern States the
negroes belong to the muscle party,
and with the whites of this class will
make majority. There are two les.
sons the negroes seem slow and 10th to
learn-lessons unlearned all other
learning is naught 10 them-nsmeIy:
One is they never will be enslaved
again. Their hills may be leveled
down and their hollows leyeled up,
but they never will again be slaves.
The other lesson is they will never
govern this country. Their springs
may run liquor and 'lsssss or dry up;
every stump may sprout postum
aud every poplar root turn to Eaters;
Sundays may last all the week and
meetins' never end. Some or all
these possibilities may happen; but
that they will ever govern this coun-
try is not among the possibilities.
To return: Muscle can hold the
pillow and WELD the ak but brain can
not. Brain has given to muscle the
weapons with which TO vanquish it.
self, the originator and donor, name
ly, the various inventions for sustain
ing and for destroying life. The genius
Of brain gave these inventions birth
and life, and now muscle proposes and
purposes to usurp and monopolize |
them for the destruction of the brain |
or capital that brought them into be- |
ing. But our present legislation is in |
the hands of brain and its tendency is |
TO extreme ineqnaliiyi in the possession |
Of property. When muscle gets the
majority, which it will soon have,
what then? The crisis is coming and |
It will be the climax Of crises. Instead |
II bloody internecion which is gath
,Jing like q daik cloud in the future,
whose portentous mutterings are even
low trembling in the air, let us have
inely legislation to meet the emer-
ency; for, ss the great aud patriotic
ireeE law giver, Lycurgus, who after
wing his Countrymen wise
ystem OF laws made them prom.