The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-31
MEMPHIS APPEAL.
FRIDAY, DC. 81, 1880.
TIE RNrGHIsyHVIrED "rO 90 :,

HhlOAt, DEOs Oh, Ino"s
THE RKIGHIsyEvIrED gro CO."
Labor works for wages and creates
capital. An employer who conducts
his own business receives pay fcr his
labor and profit upon his capital.
When labor and capital together have
prodaeed given amount Of wealth,
what proportion shall 90 10 profit and
what 10 labor? Here 10 where the
question between capital and labo.
hinges that 10 now 30 hatly debated,
and which is 80 full Of future dangers.
The money Arising from the uss OF
capital and labor goes first into the
hands OF the capitalists, and it Is main
ly they who alto decide what Dbare
shall 20 to profit and what TO labor.
As labor knows nothing OF the manner
and reasons upon which this division
10 made II 10 naturally Suspicious OF
being deprived ofits just proportion,
The workman is the moro suspicious
as he sees that, taking the whole MACS
OF the eounpy's wealth into account,
he finds that the employers, In
series Of years, become, as a class,
owners Of wealth out OF proportion TO
The amount coming 10 labor; or, as he
puts II, "the rich get richer and tho
poor poorer" In order to secure what
the laboreS considers q more Just pro-
portion between profits and wages,
trades unions and strikes are resoltod
to. That these instrumentalities have
their eject has been shown by such
statistics % BFadskssfs has published
at times, where II has been made evil
dent by them that, In trades and
places having sufficient unions, the
general rate Of wages has been higher
than where IheTe were no unions, or
only feeble ones. The progress that
has been made In the manner Of con-
durting these unions, and especially
the very formidable System OF union
the Knighta Of Labor have initiated,
have alarmed capital and awakened a
strong spirit Of opposition. Thisspirit
is displayed In rather whimsical
manner In an article in lest Tuesdays
New York Bs6isiin, a prominent and
able commercial journal. The article
Describes the Argentine Republic in
South Amerlea, within thirty days.
sail 81 Now York, as delightful ia ole
mate, the coil rich and to be had with
out ooat 10 the ssttler, wages high and
labor wanted, food cheap and prosper
lty certain. II the Knights OF Labor
w0uld but @ there they would obtain
at once VIA. they are now so painfully
striving 10 obtain, 10 the opinion OF the
Bulletin, II would be 30 much moro
pronAbls than organizing working
memo parties at home. Fearing tina.
even the paradise 1t portrays upon tina
River Plato may not prove a sufficient
indictment 10 Induce the Knights,
like Chinese, "to GO" the Bulleiia
holds out prospect Of a grand buc'
osneerinR, land stealing kind OF pro-
cess, aud gays; at was American
emigration 10 Texas that paved the
way for the acquisition OF that vast
territory aud the suOssq tent entrance
OF Ollii,rnia into the Union; and who
knows bur that by similar process
Ameiioin institutions, going hand
10 hand with American enter
prize and American industry, in
the oouss OF time might be planted
10 Ebuh America Also" This Is
not very friendly toward the Argen-
tino Republic, and we doubt il II provo
any great temptation 10 body OF men
who are quite oontented to work
where the stars and stripes wave, pro
vided they eau have assurance that
the share sllolted TO them as wages is
in just proportion 10 that falling to
capital 10 profit. Such wiles a. the
above will never wheells the knight
to seek among the swamps OF the
Plats ths living he expects 10 make
quite comfortably at home, when the
organ nation TO which he belongs has
secured the obi CT for which it was
founded. Such an article as the BHt-
-Ieiin's shows the alarm felt at the prog.
TeSs rade by the Knights as organ
issns, aud the impression II conveys
cannot fail to arouse a conviction
among the Knights that their organi-
nation and plans cannot be very far
from efficient IS instruments for bring
ing about better understanding, and
a more satisfactory adjustment q
profits and wages between capital and
labor.