Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-29

against consolidation Of money and i'm
dustry that the protest Of the country is
heard.
Consolidation Of enterprises anHecon-
omy of labor are characteristics pf our
present civilization. All great demands
are supplied by associated capital aud
combined effort. All important indus
trial enterprises are carried on now
bv men and means in association.
The process is invariably labor faying, |
and has not by any means rei1hed its
limit. Every day develops new,d ethods
Of dispensing with the agency hhuman
hands in meeting the multipliced .nts OF
the people. la man stays at re ne is
supplied through the energy olchSociated
or Incorporated capital. If he travels
abroad he is carried by the contrlyances
and agencies Of company II he builds
house the materials are furnished by
aggregated capital. He is clothed and
fed mainly by similar agencies. WHAT he
produces is taken by dealers whose capi-
tai is combined with that OF others, or
Incorporated. All the economies OF life
are devised upon plan to save laeor. 10
many this does not appear beneticent
contamination. 1t is regarded IS an or
der of things which depriyes many oil
work, and therefore Of the means Of indie
nendence, II not Of subsistence itself.
This is the superficial view Of the subject
IL has been uttered as Christian truth
that he who causes two blades Of gross to
grow where but one grew before is
bepefactor of his race. 1t is an
equally Christian truth that ne who de
ylses the means to enable one man TO pro
duce Dushel OF wheat where 1t took
two men to do It before is as well a
benefactor OF his race. And this
assertion is true through the whole
range OF human industry. one OF
three results must be effected by multi
piled power of production The whole
people must have more to consume, the
favored classes must have Increased
+, luxuries, or the hours of labor OF the
producing classes must be reduced. One
: or the other Of these results, or In
limited degree all Of them, must bt
reached, or there would be produced al
- excess OF commodities which woulC
remain or perish unused. In practice
all three of the results are reached B,
e reason OF the increased productive
c power Of labor, caused by combination
Of capital and the achievements OF sci
= ence and invention, the body o
T. the producing classes do have AM
:, do consume more the favored classe
= 10 have UNNECESSARILY more of the luxu
II rles of life, and the hours Of labo
d of the great mass of laborers are short
N ened. There can be no doubt that as
81 general proposition this Is true, thong
y the exceptions to it are so many as
raise doubt of 1T in the minds OF som
IS whose vision is too weak to take in tn
!" whole field of observation The evils {
SO combination and consolidation are, hoY
ever, great and Calling. The individu
Id who has no capital but his labor sinks
n comparison to an atom Though he ms
IS, actually receive more by comparison,
oil appears to receive less. Injustice b
ng comes more formidable and the power
X wealth more arrogant. Capital becom
AT the arbiter of It's own rights and 4
At rights OF others. 1t gives or Withhold
Ig' at ITS own will, subject only TO the III
to mate peril of universal discomfort. t
&c. object which the people are TO strive
nd is not curtailed production, but mo
use equable distribution, Wherever,
nd combination OF capital or by the us
SO of applied science, one hand can
by made TO do the work of two or more
led possible good is revealed for the mass
the of producers. Increased measure Of
ma commodities which make life enioya'
vas and shortened hours of toll become
aid tainable. The fruits of multiplied p
md ductlve power must not be appropria'
inns by class, but must be equitably shat
to by the great body of producers. Her
the is the great problem of this era OF p
hey gress; How are the gains Of The m
900 fortunate class to be curtailed, and
s II products Of labor, made many fold IN
ATTY productive, to be distributed in just y
re- portions? The end desired cannot
pay reached at STEP nor by any patent
the vice, but must BE approached by meth
1T not retarding and destructive, but bro
loW just and philosophic.
rers
ern- ROCKWALL.
t of Tired Of tho NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wen