Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-10-11

A worthy niiv dual walked one day into
q factory in broc klyn where they were
engaged in Masking gunny cloth. he |
asked the proprietor IL he night enter and |
inspect his establishment.
BY all msans," was the reply; walk
in"
He ssw the rooms aud the workmen
and he came back aud sGid to the proprie-
tor: II would like TO ask you, sir, what !
you pay for whges bereg"
~ pay my oversear somewhat more"
he answered; 'bu. these Journeymen !
pay 81. so per day, 50 per week"
why, IN my country, "said the visitor,
~ could get them for about five cents
per day"
"what does 1t cost you in your country
to mako yard of bagsine2"
1T costs about 299 cents"
Said the Brooklyn man: Isl make all
the begging here for ] cents"
sam such fool" replied the as-
tonished stranger, ''aH TO- como 5000
miles from Iudia to fiud that QUIZ"
There was case wages and labor
proving to you that the better paid wages
were the cheapest, and the cost Of pro-
duction one taing and the rate Of wages
another.
Let us consider this question little
furtner. Some men, We will suppose,
have capital; some men have strength
and skill to labor; they join forces and
they produce something of value. They
make house, or they make ship, or
they make railway car, OF carriage, or
they produce crops grown from the earth;
but the value has been created, and the
qneEtion now is-what share in the lint
fund Of AllAhall each man who contributed
tomake II, whether by labor or monty, what
share shall each receiver Capital must
have share; labor must have share.
Now. ask you is It not fully apparent
that the greater the lot production haa
been, the larger will be the rand that il
to b. diyiied between capital a. d labor
THEIR INTERESTS ARE THE SAME;
that is to say. they spring from the same
sourca but there are different conditions
TO each FIR capital o4n wait for its profit
but labor cannot. What ia dolly bread to
one ia ma, dful, but not so to the other.
The wuIkingman must have it he cannot
live without wages; and the wages must
come out OF the fund created by tho in.
creased value of what labor and capital
together have ade. So that whatever
possible for labor to receive its fair share.
Does not, therefore, the rate of wages de-
pend on the amount Of production II
nothing is produced, neither employer
nor aboring man can get anything You
create fund. and the larger the fund the
greater the shares buff there isno fund,
then the work must stop and there oan be
no production.
n xsrTza ta aAA NJ
wages does not depend upon the produo
tivepess Of labor, and can laws produce
: anything or make blade Of grass grow
by being enacted? If they can, then !
say we have discovered o means OF escape
from the primeval curse thata man should
earn his bread by the sweat of his face.
There ia part OF this subject upon which
l have some besitanoy IN entering; II
scarcely eau be called political, but feel
1t so strongly, perceive its truth &c
daily, that cannot refrain from com
ment; and that ia this: Is It q propei
, way, in considering the share of labor IL
the production, to treat it as a mere com
. modify? Is not resBon shallow and su
peificial that places human labor in tn,
list of dead materials, as though It wer,
so much stone, or iron, or coal, or lum
Der, or wood? Is man q mere machine
. out OF which you turn articles for us L
!. not a man something more than muscl
Z and bone aud sinew2 10 he not also
: creature OF hopes and fears, Of intellec
and feeling; has he not heart to feel an
mind to comprehend, and was be nd
a created efter the very image Of the Al
n mighty Ruler? applique
> Now, / ask you, is there not YER
? Or und and gross error In the politics
1 economists, or legislators, or me- Ia an
= capacity who deal with tbi, question On
4 forget that they are dealing with men
= Does not this proposition of classin
: human labor among the dead element
4 of cost entering into the construction Q
!, inanimate things tend TO degrade bot
a him and his labor in computing the vslu
3 of the labor or the rate Of wsgesp Ar
. there not human Eympathiea to be throw
|. into the scale? II this subject be look
= at in hopeful light let us discard tn
i word commodity as appl ed to the lato
y Of human beings Human laws, we ma
: be sure, are wise Just In proportion a
y they approach the laws of nature aud {
Il natures God. There fore condition {
n hopeless toll, of listless slavery, is ia
different az o productive force from th
n hopeful worker, with vigorous INTEL
a gence promising its full reward; th
: quality as we'll as the quan'i,y 10 In
! proved. Eliminate Independence an
!, hope from the mans breast and what d
. You leave him?
e SEVERAL years sgo / read some letter
- by Won Mol,ke, the venerable and g-ei
German soldier, according to my idea Ii
greatest man in Germany. Won Molth
went to Russia on tour of travel an
:, he wrote from thence letters which 20
may find OF great interest. He con
y mepted on the condition OF the psaaan
! he found in that unhappy CLINE, j,ylei
70 even in their pleasures except in Il
y pleasures of tobacco and intoxicatlor
y l suppose they got them cheaper. L
!, :, was led to ask why It was that these pc
u pie were so Hpiritleas; Why il wa that the
y were working with the rude plows tn
their most remote ancestors had used
why their harness was so rude, the
y housea SO poo, their apparel so wretehe'
% their D ensures 20 few, their sorrows
10 many and 30 heavy and looking, as
sensible man, uudernsath the mere Gu
al rent of their daily labots, he ascribed
% ell 10 the tenure OF the land. By u
10 Russian law they had nothing but Ii
VI estAte in it, and the man who worked q
the soil, let him work as hard ss
20 pleased, could not transmit the result
"a his labor TO his chillren. Therefore VIII
az inducenent had he to spend more toll {
20 the land than would seIve him TO pay q
9 rent and to drag out miserable eIif
e. ence ? The element of hope was take
u out OF It. From these letters learn,
10 to understand The gloom that hf 8 settl'
Is over that land and produced that como
q ton called uihilism, which means not
y, ing; annihilation they looked forward
IN as heftar than gnch a life.