Wichita eagle., 1888-09-04

more Lnau the weak, or poor men. IL
illustrate. Take one hundred cups Of one
hundred different sizes; the first one an
inch in diameter, the second two inches il
diameter, the third three inches in diam
eter, and so on to the hundredth cup, il
being one hundred in diameter. Set
them all out doors and let it rain upon
them. VIII they all catch the same
amount hf water? The rain makes nc
determinations. 1t falls upon all alike.
A free government can make no discrimi-
nations. 1t must offer protection to
property, life and liberty to all alike.
The last twenty-five of those cups will
catch more rain than all the rest put to-
gether. Put them on the scales and the
| last twenty-five will weigh more than
the first seventy-five. There is labor and
capital again after all the money that is
wanted has been issued. The relation be-
tween labor and capital is the same. The
relation between the sizes of the cups re-
mains the same after the rain as before.
| though the amount of water they catch
| differs And it would make no differ
ence fit should rain on them every day,
| they would become no nearer equal to
each other.
| After the Labor Union have secured
all the legislation that they are now
striving after they will still be as they
were before, and all the time, money and
energy expended by their party viii have
been wasted.
1t is an easy matter for the laboring
men to create sympathy and following
by citing some of their unfortunate sur
roundings and conditions; but that is
all that they can do. 1t is an
easy matter to move the feelings
of the blind by referring to
their conditions, and by comparing them
with those who can see; but you can't
legislate eyes into their heads. 1t is an
easy matter to excite the feelings of the
lame, the weak and the afflicted who fill
out hOspitales; but law cannot be
passed that will cure them. 1t is an
easy matter to make the weak and the
poor, who are less capable of winning
the race In business than the strong and
the rich, mourn their conditions, and it
is an easy matter to enlist their services
III any movement which promises to
them the success which attends the
strong and the rich. But it is quite a
different thing to secure them strength
and riches which are to be had only by
paying for them their equivalent in
energy.
1t is from capital that labor gets its
living. What difference does it make
whether million of capital be in one
man or ten? 1t employs the same
amount of labor in either case. The
laboring men are trying to kill ''the
goose that lays the golden egg"
Labor has denounced all Of the capital
lists of our country. The greater the
capitalist and the more wages that he
pays to labor, the more do they curse
him. The next thing that we expect to
see the Labor Union do is to assail and
denounce the greatest of all monOpolists
and capitalists. He who, not only owns
all the railroad, all the factories and all
the farms, but who owns the whole
earth. We expect to see their next
platform denounce the Almighty
because He has not distributed wealth
among all men equally, and because He
has not made all men alike mentally and
physically when He could do so.
We speak of things as they are not as
we would like to see them or think they
ought to be. We would like to see all
men equally strong mentally and physic-
ally, and in health and happiness alike;
but ST III is not the case and there is no
legislative remedy. We would like to
see all the cups one size so that all could
catch the same amount of ram but they
are not. We ought to know the facts as
they are about us whatever they may be. |
That man is best qualified to get the |
most out of life who is best acquainted |
with the facts with which he is sur
rounded.
The laboring men should lend their
assistance to that party which out of the |
number of parties in the field will do
them the most good. Which party will |
do them the most good? The Republican
party, which is for America and Ameri-
can people, rich and poor alike, against
the whole world. Over the Republican
party waves the banner of human liberty
and equal rights for all men. The Re-
publican party is national monopolist
as against other nations. That is to say,
he Republican party believes in monop-
olizing the American industries for the
exclusive benefit of the American labor
BIS. DEAN GORDON.