The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-24


OF this free repuhlic. who are writhing IN
the rrasp Of these masters. that by their
viii they are permitted 10 exist. ] say the
posnt OF shameful tolerafion has been
reached.
s.Dsv BIZ day We are advancing. . consin-
red SIR. Lewis, anesrer and. NEARER to the
hour when some answer must come from
the people who Rre IN power TO those who
s.e below. bit who look up and cry for re-
heF
sswill / be deemed q possinist2 VIII
be deemed an alarmist7 VIII voE say
/ am notjusxified II my faith when ! an
swer ron and ask. Are we approaching the
stage that i am warning you against :
Look about you ard see
Mr. Lewis then drew 3 vivid picture OF
the many riots and strikes caused By the
incessant war between capital and labor.
and how the hungered mother, IN many
instances, was eompe led 10 beg food for
herself and babies while the father sought
employment
IF | were asked who are the dangerous
men of this republic | would not say the
Anarchist With MS torch. the Nihilist with
his boTab, or the Labor Union with its co.
operative rules; bnt would point TO those
and exactionS, have brought a condition
within the Limits Of eur republic which
threatens the safesf OF its institutions and
are already attacking the purity Of its gov
eminent
Every advance on the part of the people,
every reformlin their interest has been re-
stricted. The education of the people is
the safeguard OF our government.
Thomas Hood recognized his great in
debtedness to reading for the distinguished
place he occupied in the literary world. He
said: A natural turn for reading and in-
tellectuai pursuits probably preserved me
from the moral shipwrecks so apt to hefall
those who are deprived in early life OF their
parental pilotage. NY books kept me from
the ring. the dog-pit, the tavern and saloon.
The closest association Of Pope and Addi-
son, the mind accustomed TO the noble
though silent discourse of Shakespeare and
Milton will hardly seek or put up with that
OF company.
Practical education would be i'm the way
of many new reforms, which now lie in the
misty. new light of a dreamy theory. The
stste should proceed Is provide means of
public education for men who are COM
PEELED to labor from the time their physs-
cal energies VIII support them. When
hooks and magazines have been opened 20
you all when you have learned 10 read.
you will then have the wisdom of those
who contend against you and you will be
their equals and will be able to cope with
them.
II say to you. preston. lie not discour-
aged At the difficulties in your paths ana
The exertions in your behalf will demon
strate sooner or later that you have moth
ing TO fear from the power Of wealth, Wis
ionary dreamers and facile theorists.
Educate the worker, furnish him with
opportunities for training and discipline.
and cooperation will be success. Profit
sharing has been adopted in agricultural
industry, in portions of some of the South
ern and Western states, and is growing in
favor
The two forces in transaeting business
and producing wealth are labor and capital
The question is, how to unite these forces
in such way that the interests OF the two
classes controlling them shall be the same
and not hostile. as now. The capitalist
should have for the use of his capital per-
centage of the amount he contributes, and
as against this the worker should have fair
wages. Then, sitter paying all expenses,
the profits should be divided between the
capitalist on the one side and the body of
workers on the other, according TO their
earnings Each worker should also have
the right. by leaving with the working
capital of the concern, such part of bis
earnings or shares. as he may choose. to
become partner in the ownership. But,
of course, there is no partnership or
joinder of interest which can avail you like
that which must come from the innate,
brotherly love OF man and man.
81 can see the perpetuetion OF this state
and all her sacred institutions and the
miseries of the people relieved. All this
will be, when beyond the dream OF any
golden age shah come the majesty and
supremacy of that hoPed-for hour, when
the powerful OF the earth will have learned
to make an equal distribution 70 the poor
OF the fruits of their own commonwealth.