Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-26

disturbed the quietude of the old world, and which has never accomplished any good to those who have brought it on. It is plant of foreign growth, exotic here, and one which should never be cultivated.
 Organization for mutual benefit and pro- lection is proper thing. In fact, associated effort has accomplished about all the good that the world has ever known. But organl- Eation of one class of citizens for the sole and avowed purpose of antagonizing another is reprehensible in the highest degree, and is sure in the end to react against the parties moving Tn it. In Europe, where the laws of hereditary are still in force; where class distinctions are kept up and the avenues Of learning and renown are closed to the great masses of the people; where manual labor IS regarded, in sense, as degrading; where a poor man can till the soil only as the tenant of the rich landlord; and where the compen- sation for labor in every department of hu- man industry is hardly sufficient to keep soul and body together, it is no wonder that dis content prevails and that outbreaks occur. But there is no such condition of things here, and will not be for years to come. There is land enough for every man who desires to work it, and at so low a price that ever J man can till his own soil. Agriculture, there fore, IS brought into direct competition with other industries, and compels the roanufac- turer to pay wages equivalent to what can be realized from farming.
 There is no deny ing the fact that the lead ing spirits in the labor movement are for eigners or the immediate descendants of for eighers, men who have not been in this coun- try long enough to grasp the situation and to realize that the labor question here is a very different thing from what it is in Europe. Many of them are outspoken communists and socialists, and therefore enemies to all law that goes to protect property in the hands of it's owner. In fact the whole labor move ment is characterized by that cemmunistic spirit of hatred to the capitalist which would wrest from the pi ddent and thrifty their hard-earned savings and give them to the shiftless and lazy. Should this spirit pre- vail, there is an end to all law and order, to be succeeded by the reign of confusion and anarchy. But this spirit cannot prevail in this country, where the masses are educated and where all men are equal before the law, and where it is possible for hamble-born cit izens, by making the most of their oppor- tunities, as h as happened in several instanc- es, to reach the highest place in American citizenship. Before joining any of these se- well to scan carefully the character of the their own vicinity. Are they 1aborers them selves, or are they cheap politicians, ,oice-hold- CTS and office-seekers, who are striving to con- trol the organization for their own benefit: Are they chronic loafers, who consistently refuse to work, no matter what was offereda Also beware of itinerating blatherskites who travel through the country pretending to in st1uet laboring men in their duties. They gre wolves in sheeps' clothing, who care nothing for the laboring masses, but only for their own aoprandiZement