The Labor enquirer., 1886-01-23
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reform papers, scattered throughout the
country. - we'll - many able orators in
tho cities. all hammering away at such
social md industrial wrongs as require
remedies But, after Ill. we are only ~
IN advance skirmish line, firing toward
the enemy rather than ct them. Having
now some strength, would it not be
better to concentrate orr Are on the least
defensible points, and direct public
opinion" to those wrongs which hurt
and plumber everybody but the perpe-
traitor
The great fundamental wrong in soci.
ETY. is our class divisions into wage
workers and capitalists, the first per-
forming all the disagreeable labor and
the last deriving more of the benefits.
These divisions necessarily create and
maintain hereditary class of workers,
q marked as the castles Of India. They
have the ballot without selfgovernment,
and pass their lives under wages despot-
ism in the bosom of q republic.
This division into workers and capi-
talists is not only an intolerable despot-
ism and burden of itself but it generates
other burdens and despo tisms, which
levy tribute on capital as we'll as labor.
These class divisions are not only unjust
to labor, but they are anti-republican,
anti. Christian, and anti eyerything-else
essential to justice and good government.
There is no getting over the fact that
they entail hereditary seryitude on the
wage workers as class, for this servi-
tude is seen all the way up from the first
taskmasters to the present times.
And there is no necessity for these
divisions in either production or distri
button. They effect notti ing that could
not be better done through partnership
cooperation between capital and labor.
They imbrute labur and imperil capital.
VII en- labor is enslaved it has the cruel
and destructive instincts of the slave.
What can it learn OF equity when its
whole life is passed amid devices to
plunder it?
Z Nothing Is more certain than that
labor is growing into conflict with cap
ital, as to whether capital alone, or labor
alone, or labor and capital united, shall
control the productive agencies of soci-
ETY.. Look around you everywhere.
Behold the innumerable trades unions
of all kinds, the Knights of Labor, and
other organizations. What has called
them into existence The rapacitY and
TYRANNY of capital They have united
to put an end to this. How and when
is yet locked up in the future. What
matters it that they are vet cropping in
the dark, half vanquished and dispirited?
So were their brothers at Lexington,
without glimpse of the great republic
to grow out of their struggle. Their
thoughts and struggles will finally end
in the establishment of grand Republic
of Labor, know nothing of master" or
man." but controlling all productive
and distributive genius, for the collect
i've benefit instead of the enrichment of
a class.
There should be a concentrated fire
upon these class divisions. They are
the causes of all wrongs and robberies.
They yearly demonstrate their inefh
cheney to control production and distri-
button. Their wastes are enormous.
Their tvrannies, are unbearable. They
are debauching and demoralizlng alike
the man Of labor and the man of capital.
They are what make labor weak and
capital strong. Their abolition sets
labor free, and opensa new world.
Attack these divisions, Capital caunot
defend them, for to defend is to declare
that the wnole working world is created
for the use of capital. j. F. BRAY.
PONTIAC Michigan.