The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-28
NO. 80.

one SIDE. men OF GOTDuuGs W1O AeN0 AAOFSA
been obliged to toll and who despise toll,
and. ON the other hand, men who could get
labor, but viii not have it, will not stick to
it. It is the hand cursing the eye, or the
eye oursing the hand. 1 want 1t under
stood that the laborers are the highest
stvle of capitalists. Where is their in
vestmentP I'm the bankF No. In railroad
stock? No Their muscles, their nerves.
their bones, their mechanical skin, their
physical health, are the highest kind of
capital The man that has two feet, and
two ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers
owns a machinery that puts into nothing
ness Corliss' engine and all the railroad
rolling stock, and all the carpet, and
screw, and cotton factories on the planet
wave the flag of truce this morning be"
tween these contestants. I demand cess
sation of hostilities between labor and
capital. What is good for one is good for
both. What is bad for one is bad for both.
Again: Relief will come 60 the working
classes of this country through a co-opera-
tive association. am not now referring
to trades unions. We may hereafter disc
cuss that question. But 1 refer to that
plan by which laborers become their own
capitalists, taking their surpluses and putt
ting them together and carrying on great
! enterprises. In England and Wales there
are 765 cooperative associations, with
| 500 600 m smbers, with a capital Of 4,000,-
900, doing business in one year to the
amount of $27,OOO,OOO. In Troy, N. Y.s
there was cooperative iron foundry as
! sociation. It worked well long enough to
| give idea OF what could be accom-
plished when the experiment is fully de-
veloped. Thomas Brassey, one Of the
first of the English Parliament, declared:
r. q
of this question; it is the sole path by
which the laboring classes as a whole, or
any large number of them, win ever
emerge from the hand to- mouth mode of
living and get their share In the rewards
and honors of our advanced civilization"
Thomas Hughes, the ablest and the mOsS
brilliant friend of the wOrkingman; Lord
Derby, John Stewart MILL men who gave
half their lifetime to the study of this
question, all favor cooperative assoOia~
| tion.
Again: remark that relief win come
TO the working classes through more thor~
ough discovery on the part of employers
that it is best for them to let their enfploys
ss know just how matters stand. The moss
of the capitalists of to-day are making
less than six per cent, less than fve pes
cent, less than four per cent. on their iR~
swallowing down every thing, but sueld
are the exceptions. Tt is often the case
| that employees blame their employer beA
cause thew suppose he is getting along
grandly, when he Is oppressed to the lass
point of oppression. knew a manufacture
er who employed more than a thousand
hands. said to him;
"Do you ever have any trouble wte4
your workmen? Do you have any strikesFS
''No," he said.
WHAT In this time of angry discuss
sion between capital and labor, NO
| trouble2"
"None at aIl-none."
said: "How is that2''
"Well," he said, SCI have a way Of my
| own. Every little while I call my emS
| ployes together, and 1 say; Now, boyss
want to show you how matters stan@p
What you turned out this year brougA
me so much. You see IL isn't a.
much as we got last year. I cane
afford to pay you as much as 1 did
Now, you know put all my means In this
business. What do you think ought to be
my percentage, and what wages ought I
to pay you. Come, let us settle this.P
And, >" said the manufacturer, 1--WE are ale
ways unanimous. When we suffer ala
suffer together. When we advance, wa
advance together, and my men would die
for me-"
But when . man goes among his ems
ployes with q supercilious air, and drives
up to his factory as though he were the
autocrat of the universe, with the sun and
the moon in his vest pockets, moving amid
the wheels of the factory, chiefly anxious
lest a CREASED or smirched hand should
touch his immaculate broadcloth, he villa
see at the end he has made an awful mis-
take. think that employers will find out
after a while that it is to their interest, az
far as possible, to explain matters TO their
employees. You be frank with them, and
they will be frank with you.
Again: remark relief will come to the
laboring classes through the religious req
tifcation of the country. Labor is appre-
ciated and rewarded Just in proportion as
q country is Christianized. Why is our
smallest coin penny, while in China 10
takes six or dozen pieces to make On@
penny, the Chinese carrying in his own
country the "cash," as 10 is called, around
his neck like q string of beads, dozen of
these pieces necessary to make the value
of one of our pennies2 In this country for
nothing do we want to pay less than "a
penny. In China they often have TO pay
the sixth of penny, or the twelfth of q
penny. WnaE ts bne uiU6renCtl OhTih~
tianity. Show me a community that is
thoroughly infdel and / viii show you a
community where wages are small. Show
me community that is thoroughly
Christianized and 1 viii show you
a community where wages are compara-
lively large. How do / account for itl
The philosophy is easy. Our religion is a
democratic religion. It makes the owner
Of the mill understand he Is a brother to
all the operatives in that mill. Born of the
same Heavenly Father, to lie down in the
same dust, TO be saved by the same
preme mercy. No putting on Of airs in the
sepulcher or in the judgment I do not
care how much money you have, you have
not enough money to buy your way through
the gate do not care how poor you are,
il you have the grace of God in your hears
no one can keep you out. IL the
shining gate-keeper, smitten by some
injustice, should try 20 keep you
out, all Heaven would fly from
their thrones, and they would cry:
"Let him ini Let him inl" Ny friends,
you need to saturate our population with
the religion of Christ, and wages will be
larger, employers will be more considerate,
all the tides of thrift will set It. I have
the highest authority for saying that busi-
ness is profitable for the life that now is.
lt pays for the employer. lb pays Tor the
employe. The religion of Christ comes
out to rectify all the wrongs of the world,
and it viii yet settle this question between
labor and capital just as certainly as you
sit there and / stand here. The hard hand
OF the wheel and the soft hand Of the
counting room win clasp each other yet.
They win clasp each other in con nRratula-
tion. They win clasp each other on
the glorious morning of the millennium.
The hard hand win say: II plowed the
desert into a garden;" the soft hand viii
reply; ~ furnished the seed" The one
hand viii say. "I thrashed the noun