Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-22

tho body Is also healthy. Or, 10 put u II
another shape, labor Is the muscle and
, capital Is the mind that moves the muscle
Capital says have mind to invest ID
Fort Worth that may get the advantage
Of that active, go-ahead muscle down
there that does SO many wonderful things
by It's extraordinary vitality; but caution
says TO capital, you must look ous; they
are on big strike down tbere--labor Is
Il Is killing not only engines, but men,
and destroying property. IAnother says,
but this is all over; that wonderful peo-
pie, those Fort Worthites, have turned
theiT attention to the building Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road and
all Is serene, and Gould Will no longer
dominate the situation. So capital comes
ont Of his hiding place and helps labor TO
buy meat and bread, and teams and tools
TO carry on this new enterprise. Now sup
pose capital had sulked when called on 10
contribute to this great boom TO Fort
Worth, what would have been the condi.
ton OF our community? Look at Old
I Mexico, with her continuous strike and
war between capital and labor aud you
are fully answered But another says
1 labor IS the key 10 the situation and can
I have things on her own terms and 10 her
! own way. Did you ever think, you that
/ bold to this doctrine, that capital was
once labor, and is the product OF labor
! Just as the blood that came from the body
was once a part Of the body? Labor
works not for the amusement
OF work, but in order to gain
capital; after labor has gotten into the
shape OF capital then II straightwOy as
sumes airs that ia offensive 10 labor, and
10 Is this jealousy which causes much OF
the trouble between them, but by no
means all OF IL. The great trouble that
causes 50 much strife is the eucrOach-
ment OF corporate capital upon morgan.
lied labor. Because It is unorganizedi
Therefore we come 10 the conclusion that
labor Is justified in organizing against lhe
encrOachment OF capital in an aggressive
shape. We would not be understood as
saying that ell corporate capital is unjust
aud aggressive, but we do say that great
deal Of IL is, and such as is should be
checked by some counteracting power
that will hold II IN check. It being
granted that labor has the same right to
organize that capital has, we come now
TO The question, in what shape shall labor
organize 10 most effectually accomplish
the ends it aims at--not to destroy, but
to check and balance the opposition
to it2
Not by secret societies. We say that
labor should not put its light under
oushel in the shape Of secret societies
And why2 Because all government in
this country is the result of an open dis |
cussion of the objects sought to be ac-
and secret societies of |
political character are gotten up in secret
and are conducted in secret, and the |
motives that impel the members to nomi- |
nate one man or to reject another are not |
known to the body politely whom TIL,
secret society proposes to control. Now |
all men cannot belong to these societies,
and i they could all men will not ioin, I
md hence the proposition is to control a
body OF men by secret means who have
lad no voice in shaping the means, and
who are invited to contribute to
IN end they know nothing of,
Is far as the reasons for the
'ame are concerned, When these things
ire discussed in public how many on the
outside of the organization will be sutIl-
'lently in love with something they do
lot know or understand as to embrace
Is doctrines? But the labor organizs.
ions may say eve propose to embrace
within our folds sufficient strength TO
ontrol all on the outsiCn." This is
proposition that cannot e depended ON
or permanent factor, Il any govern
nent, or machinery of = ,vernment, not ,
permanent in Its nature i of no perma-
tent avail, and therefore hot desired.
Then in what shape sball this new
lower come to stay?
Let them meet in open council-in the
olds OF the Democratic party-for it is
road enough-and puo.ish to the world
Is platform and go out ON the stump and
ell 1t, If they would win. ,
c. c. CIrNINuNcs