The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-10
BILL ARP,s PHILOSOPHY.
ANanta ConsH!4tior.

Atlanta Consti.utson.
heard young man say to his en-.
ployer: "Mr. Jones called again to get
bis money, but couldn't t7aiti and has
gone back to his work. He said he had
called three times and you we're not in. !"
We'll, let him call again. I can't stay
here Ill the time just to accommodate
him. I wonder if he expects me to take
his money to him Z"
Yes, my friend, that is just what Mr..
Jones has q right to expect. He ought
not to have been forced to call at all. You
hired him to do that work. He did it,
and it was your duty to have hunted him
up and paid him. You are rich and he
is poor. He can't afford to lose the time,
but you can.
This is the tyranny of capital over la
bor, and this is the cause of the conflict
between them. Money is the king and
labor is the subject. just let man get
rich and he gets tyrannical. There are
but few exceptions to this rule. Woe
unto the man who has.to depend upon
the rich for his living sHis manhood is
crushed, and he feels that he is helpless.
Not long ago I saw struggling young
man writhing under this tyranny. He
had worked hard in the broiling sun for
q month and had well earned his money,
and, ittook him three weeks to getit. His
employers we're rich and their money
was in bank, but one partner referred him
to another, and the other was off on trip,
and when he returned he said he would
attend to it as soon as he had time, and
after several failures the young man
was referred To the boss of the work for Q
certificate, aud 80. his patience was tried
for days and weeks.
8 This is all wrong. A man should be
Just as anxious to pay the laborer as he
was to get his work. He should hunt
him up and pay him. The sewing woman
ought:not to haYe to wait a week for her
money. The wash woman ought not to
call but once. If you haven't got it or are
not at home, then send it to her as soon
as possible. Labor is just as good as
money. Z. Honest labor is full equivalent
for money, and is entitled to just as much
consideration. Indeed, there is something
about therlabor and toll of working peo.
ple that is sacred. It is g sin against
heaven to withhold their just reward. i
know men who keep back the wages Of
the poor. They pay, but they pay late.
"Does be pay you for your work, Uncle
Sam 2" "Oh yes, sir, he pay. He pay
when he get ashamed to see me standing
aroun'. stands aroun on de street and
about de post Office and gets in his way
sometimes and den he pay. His money
mighty good money dey say. 1t draws
intrnst in his pocket"
The lawyer or the doctor can afford to
lose his fee. The merchant expects to
lose a certain per. cent. on bad debts.
The capitalist takes the risk of fortune
and fire and Hood and strikes. and pesti-
lence; :. but the toiler can't afford any risk.
Their food nnd clothing depends upon
prompt payment There is too much
Indifference about this thing. Even the
State of Georgia, that Is so jealous Of her
financial honor, does:not pay her public
servants as promptly as she ought. She
has no toilers who work harder, or are
more deserving than her teachers, aud
they do not draw their pay for months
after it is due. The school boards of
some of the public schools are equally in
different, and some of their teachers have
to stay at home during the long summer
vacation for lack of means to visit their
kindred. know of some who have not
been paid for two months and are not
likely to be. Schooling is cheap, but
teaching is cheaper.
If capital vas more respectful to labor
there would be no strikes or unions.
Indeed, there would be no Alliance, for
there would be no necessity for such or
CARNATIONS. The average workingman
does not envy therich man because be is
rich, but because his riches make him
proud and oyerbearing. I=heard q lady
say: "These blackberry peddlers are Q
nuisance. Lust sit in my window and
scream, 'No berries; don't want any,
before they come in at the gate." Some
of these poor, timid country girls have
worked hard to gather those berries, so az
to make little money. and help the
mother or ret colico dress or cheap
hat or a pair of Sunday shoes. Who
knows how many humble plaus they have
laid and how fond we're their expectations
that somebody would buy, and is hard
on their hopes for lady to scream out
"No berries; don't want any berries !" j
would buy some of the berries if I didn't
want them and didn't have. cent of
money and had to pay in sugar and coffee
or children's secondhand clothes. We
know very we'll that there is nobody suf-
fering for the necessaries of life in this
blessed land, but the poor and humble
have some aspirations-some desires to
better their condition and their appear
ance. Sone of these poor girls can't go
to church, or to school for lack of comely
garments. Some have no father, some
no mother I know one whose father
works all day in the mines and gets his
dollar day, and it all goes for food and
clothing and fuel and house rent. There
are FIVE in the family-fve females and be
is the only breadwinner. There is moth
ing left fer comfort nothing for sickness
or medicine. The rich pass many such
people by and say they are no account
They are lazy and trifling. This is q
mistake. The trouble is they can't get a
stgrt and their hopes are crushed. There
is many s. Cinderella in the ashes who
would make princess if lifted up. The
inner life of the poor is known only to
God, but his curse is upon all who oppress
them and his blessing upon those who
befriend them.
"The spoiis of the poor are in your house,
Ye do grind the faces of the poor.
blessed is he who considereth the poor
The Good Book is full of such passa-
ges.
No poet ever wrote sweeter song OF
sentiment than Lady Dufferin in the
EmigranG's Lament
Tn, very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends,
But, oh, they love the better far.
The few our father sends.
A man or woman or a child does not
have to be beggar to be poor. Some
are too proud to beg and will suffer and
suffer on. An educated stranger has been
working in our mines for a month at q
dollar q day-working with pick and
shovel and keeping his own secret. But
he couldn't stand it-of course be could
not, for he was frail in body and not used