The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-07

talists may monopoiize ths larger
i -iportion Of earnings Of labor, it seems
to me, it should be power which
ought to distribute the products to
|produo,rs, according to the amount
Of labor expended in their prodac>
tion.
| Advancement and discoveries IN
the mechanical arts since tie war
nave greatly aided productlAas. K
is fair estimate, that. by improve
nents In agricultural and mechan-
icai machinery. articles are made
now with one third the manual In
Dor formerly required. 1t would
seem that these improvements would
return to the bounty of the laboring
classes-the producers.
| If this is SO, both the inyentors O.
Gachinery, and those who operate
to, if the published accounts are
to be relied upon, still uoil IN want
many OF whom have neither til 6
means nor leisure to educate their
children. Machinery las collected
the people together in towns and
villages, where they sell eaeir labor
aad buy their board and cloth
ing.
This state Of thing, creates the
necessity for greater exchange Of
commodities yet there has been no
corresponding new invention in the
Iinancos OF the country, by which
The exchange may be more jadicious
" and equitably made.
True, gold and silver have increas-
ed, and We lave treasury notes asd
money brokers, but are these
py their present management an im
proyement in the way OF an equi>
table distribution of the products Of
this vast country?
Just monetary laws and their
proper management would be Of more
real value to the producing classes,
than all tue machinery that has been
invented during the three past de-
caJes. When these needed refor.
nations are consummated the pro
,iucars who will sc benefited by
them will rcjoice at the way of al
yancemcnt in the mechanical. arts and
the inventors will be hailed as the
f ecefactors Of ths human race
} Some men seem to oppose all inno-
: yations.
) All Improvements in the arts, anG
) Ill laws passed, are but innovations
| upon former arts aud laws.
Our republican institutions art
but innovations upon monarchies
We.know that changes may be mad
4'or the good OF the people, else wb,
10 our legislative assemblies inset a
short intervals 20 remodel old laws
: and enact new ones? Every chang
of an existing law is an innovation
upon that law and every new law
an innovation upon the formr laws
. Every improvement for the good q
/ the people is an innovation upon
Il previous existing evil. Those VIII
o decry all innovations are often th
e greatest innovators than selves. /
) is not the age Of law or custol
that must furnish the test Of the
II excellence. The history of tn
h world teaches us one undcniab]
y fact 10 wit tAat the producing class
r as have in atf ages, been i'll paid ft
'e their labor.
o We should no longer reeur to o,
ancioss laws AMI customs to III
re hold oar unjust standard O.: .distrib
20 ton.
Our producing classes are vastl
T. more interested in knowing how tt
le products Of their labor are diatribr
: Led now than in knowing how tt
8 ancients distributed th--rs There
1t no use in brooding over the evils {
Of the past; but We ought to act for th
l. resent and the future. 1t fr
r ,uen,ly happens that q leSiS1
J. .,nacts 49,