Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-11

IoIuuu6IdtlVS prices Ue UUtdlueu
and SO if there be only few and
distant customers the general certain
ty of a fair return for the investments
of property, skill and labor becomes
an uncertainty controlled by thous-
and circumstances over which the
producers and laborers in production
have no control and little influence.
These evident, and indeed, almost
self-evident considerations point, as
you can readily see, to the one con-
clusion-one that is not, and | hope
and believe will not be thought polit-
lcal in any party sense-that the pol
icy of American legislation and the
efforts of American law -makers-who
are really the people,-ought to be
directed to the utmost development
of every variety of American produc-
ton, and so, to the improvement of
the condition of the American labor
er, and the American employer of la
Dor of every kind; by giving that la
Dor full employment and adequate
reward and to the employer ready and
steady markets. This done, while it
will be source of gain and profit to
for.ol inf nf lopd
owner and the capitalist, there will
be also larger and nobler advanc-
ment of those portions of society
which are now so often the victims
of discomfort and suffering, and which
so often. in unwise and misguided
efforts to redress grievances, make
progress backward, and find them
selves, at the end of the struggle with
those who employ labor, in worse
condition than before. The constant
ly employed and well-paid laborer
will become himself man of accumu-
lated capitalize force of labor trans
posed into things. He will become
a land holder; his wife and children
of the first of whom he ought to
have one, and of the second many,
will abide in his own house. He will
see that the liberty of the laboring
man is not only the liberty to
"strike," as the phrase is, but that it
is the equal liberty not to strike if he
does not wish to, and the liberty to
work on in peace and safety ii he
thinks it for his interest to do so,
while others may choose, as they
have the perfect right to do, not to
work upon the terms proposed. He
will learn that violence against the
administration of law, or unlawful
coercion of any kind, exerted toward
other working men, or toward en-
ployers are crimes of the gravest
character against all labor and the
welfare of laboring men, upon whom
the consequences of such things
always finally fall more heavily thar
on any other classes of society, just as
the heaviest of the evils of extensive
business failures generally fall mos
largely upon the great body of in
dustrial workers. The stopped manu-
factory brings want and distress to 8
hundred families of operatives to one
of the employers. The broken saw
ings bank creates misery in thous
and families of the poor, while it en-
harrasses the families of its large
creditors little, if at all. The sud
den depreciation of money showers
ruin upon the lahoring man and tn,
man of small wealth, while in mos
cases the wealthy and powerful man
age to loose little, if they do no
really profit by the general disaster
All these things being understood
property and labor should find theil
true and permanent interests to bt
indissoluble, and that he, to whatever
class he may belong, who promote:
strife between them, is the enemy o.
both.
That is, in the business sense, re
peat, the most perfect society il
which capital and labor co-operat,
on equal terms in production, and il
which the sources of the supply fo
both production and consumption
are near at hand. You will say tina
this means for us Americans the liv
ing to ourselves and for ourselves, by
the development of home resources
the employment of home labor, ant
the consumption of homemade prod
ucts. So it does, and so think i
ought to be, for I thinl
that nation, like a family
owes it's first, though by nj
means its only duty, to itself, an(
that in this lies the key of gold thai
unlocks not only the treasures of the
physical world, but opens to us ant
, makes possible, and indeed certain
all those higher benefits that come
from the school, the college and tht
! church, and which tend not only tt
, promote more and more the persona
comfort and happiness of our people
but to make the whole body of tn,
community more and more homoge
neous.
There are elements necessary an6
, incident to obtaining the results
have spoken Of, that require us t.
consider some important aspects O
the means of intercourse between tn,
different parts of our country. AL
though our 38 states are sovereign
and independent in the largest par
| of their local eonoerns,-and ! hope
viii! 80 remain for the safety of ALL
in large commercial sense, aud Il