Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-05-27

LeDOr anu ray.
Robert Inger. oil says: The man who
wants others to work to,such an extent
that their lives are burdens, is utterly
heertlees. The toll OF the world should
continually decrease. of what use are
your inventions If no additional comforts
and their way o the homes of laborl
Why should labor fill the world with
wealth and live in want? Every labor
saving machine should help the whole
world. Every one should tend to shorten
the hours OF labor. Reas nable labor is
the source of joy. To work for wife or
child, to toll Tor those you love, is happi-
nefs, provided you make them happy.
But TO work like a slave; TO sec your wife
and children In rags; to sit at a table where
food Is coarse and scarce: to rise at four
In the morning to work all day, and
throw your bones on miserable bed at
night; to live without leisure, without
rest, without making those who love you
| comfortable and happy. This Is not liv-
ing; 1t is dying-a slow, lingering. cruel
iix,on. The hours OF labor should be
shortened. With the vast, wonderful i'm
provements of the nineteenth century
there Should rot only be the necessaries
of lie for those who toll. but comforts
and luxuries as well.
What is reasonable price for laborl
answer: Such price as will enable n man
10 lay by something Tor his declining
years; so that he can have the feeling of a
man. sympathize with every honest
effort m AIDE by tn" children OF labor to
| improve their condition. That is poorly
governed country In wi ich those who do
the most have the least. There is some
thing wrong when men have to big for
leave to toll. We are not yet civiliz d
people; when we are, paupersm and
| crime Will vanish from our land.
sympatbize with the wauderer, with
the vagrant out OF employ meut-wiih
sad weary men who are seeking for work.
| When ] see one Of these mcD, poor and
| frlendless, no matter how bad he Ia, |
| think that somebody loved him once;
that he was once held in the arms of a
mother; that he slept beneath her loving
eyes and awakened 10 the light Of her
smile.
see him IN the cradle listening to 'ul-
labies sung coft a8d low, and Ills little
face is dimpled Us though by roy fingers
Of joy. Aud then think Of the strange
and winding paths; the weary roads that
he has Travelled from the mothers arms
to yagraucy and want. There should be
labor and food for all.
Captain w. P. Black says; A system
oil philosophy whose edhercnts count
many tens of thousand, In every civilized
country, and Whose antiquity and re.
speciality mons will question Gree Ma
eonry), has for centuries taught rs a
| RI. mt division OF time, eil hit hours for
labor, eight hours for rcst, aad eight
hours for recreation, refreshment, cul-
| ture, etc. Is It not wise dlyisloui
Eight hours for a day's labor insurcs
first, better quality of labor. A. a rule
the moe intelligent The workman the
| better his work. And an increase of the
fours that may be used for reffeshment
OF mind and body, and tie exhaus ed
cultlvator of the home graces, as rule,
will insure greater intelligence and en-
thusasm ia the worker Some work
men under the constraint OF peryerte
habit, resultant from false education,
may simply use the tEo addition al
hours for cGrousal and dissipation, but
he who holds that this will be the rule,
and that the only safety for the common
people, as for g vicious animal, lies in
unbrokcn toll, whereby the spirit is
broken, is II slauderer at once of The
workmen and of our common humanity,
To the average workman this two hours
means so much time for the sweet home
lie, with It's refining association with
wife and children, aud It's opportuniy ef
for Increase of Intelligence through news
| papers, magazine ami books.
Second, It promises greater distribu
ton of labor, with better proportional
compensation, because Of the casing Ut
measurably of the pressure of competi-
ton and these things insure mo and
happier hc me and tier ci'iz MS. For,
Us Il rule, the value Of o tizpu Ia meas-
ured by his happy contcntment, his in-
| telltgenc' and his home litc.
Third, u will tend TO the a. clifton OF
the class distinctions of society, Which In
Il republic, grow ont Of differences in iu-
telligence and wealth. The natural ten
dency OF thl, reform will DO the cqualiza-
ton Of the Intelligence and wealth of the
whole people. With these things 'avor-
ing the movement, what countornalanc-
ing ills can be p inted out 10 sanction
further delay In the adoption OF the pro.
posed reform?