Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-24

| engineers, or printers, or switchmen, or shoe
| makers which demands equal pay for every ON
| Of Its members, regardless of Individual supe
| riority, skill and ability, steps bacSwar'
| toward the tribal relations. The history of th'
success of labor and laborers in the United State
can never he repeated in the future II aborers in
sist pooling their abilities in a single union Of
labor trust for each trade, that the intellectual
| gifts of inheritance and the superior skill ant
dizziness OF individuals shall be lost in the DeaC
sea of mediocrity. II takes self reliance, brains
and courage to individualize "scab, either
| in the workshops of the world Of matter in the
cloisters and libraries of the world of mind.
| vir1Ilent symptom of the existing tendency to
| ward gregariousness and barbarism is deserted
in the popular demand TO accomplish health
wealth, and social and political prominence by
the enactment of statutes. 1t is also seen In the
subsistence of individuality everywhere from the
person into the social association, corporation
guild, or trades union.
The protective tariff has been and is prom
nently perncious and potent in this retrogressive
| movement The manufacturers who demanded
the protective tariff inaugurated the first disas
trous strike" which ever TRANSFERRED in the
United States, 1t was the strike of capital for
higher profits 1t demanded monopoly Of the
American markets. II shut out competitors from
all foreign climes. 1t established contrary to the
spirit of our constitution social class in Amer
lea .
BE it enacted that all shall be taxed so that
few shall be made rich" That was the response
profits. Then labor emuating capital, asked
also to be enriched by legislation Congress re-
piled promptly: BE 1t enacted that eight hours
Is days work, but here the advantage of legis-
lation to labor fails. Nobody pays ten hours
wages for eight hours work. Capital engaged in
the manufacture of a protected article shuts out
foreign competitors, and watching the operation
of the law of supply and demand, prevents the
former from outriInning the latter by shutting
down the mills and by stopping production. But
I..K. 10 9. nIf
as much as any finished product of labor is a
commodity, and the law Of supply and demand"
regulates the price of the product with more
certainty than it regulates the wages of the la
borer.
The " Be it enacted" method of Graduating
poverty-creatng wealth and aboshing all eco
nomic laws by statutes not original thank God
for thatD with either New England or Penn
syvania, nor indigenous TO any part of the
United States, 1t has been tried and found want
ing in all ages of civilization. The governmental
careers of all the peoples on the earth are filed
with the records of the failures, the woes, the
dire disaster and Distress which have deluged
humanity because of the experimental dogma,
BE ii enacted"
FBeginning with the tariff, BE it enacted" that
all shall be taxed TO make a few rich emitting
scores of economic bunderS-nOt mentioning the
regulation of railroad rates the prohibition laws
the sleeping ear supervision in the several states
nor the annual eeemosynaly distribution of seed
and fish by enaetment-the printing offices, lab
oratories governmental farms and dnzaus nf
other industries governmentaly carried on-let
ms observe some of the newest efforts at natarn.
alsm which have been evolved.
Mr. Morton then refarrad tn tba olaon,or
FAMINE Low, ana ntbar Ions o,octaa ~, ono
poSea 10 aoate ailegeC ana reai eVIs by con
9resSloiai acI,oii anu raiSeu ii laugh by say
'iis thao eiiulauihs INC piueno churh anu
patent cream separator patrlots VINO secured
the legislation 10 protect uhe trahquii COW
from lair cot'ileliuoh WIN oieoiliargarlle, IL
is no" declared IhaC inc manufacturers OF
heoIllargarlhe are terminating aw-ahd
VIII lllsist upon us eilactiiiehU-to prevent
pubter being sou us oleohlalSaTlhe' lie uheh
sad:
If congress eradicates hog cholera by statute,
and stamps out pleuro- pneumonia with enact
nent, establishes rates on railroads, and limits
competition to butter by the same sleight Of
hand. where is the limit to its destructive or
leative powers? Who shall venture TO define itY
Thus far the congressional practice of medicine
has been confined to the lower order Of animals.
only the hog and the bovine have been honored
ny the new SGhooi OF the Beitehacteu pinc-
e ,''o ,t ',,in, liz" Ii
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zion in n hin for an net Whether the cure Of
measles and humps in children