Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-28
PRINCE BISMARCK,

His Views on the Labor Troubles in
Europe.
In dispatch from Friedrichsruhe, dated
April 25th, Prince Bismarck is credited
with saying to New York Herald cor
respondent:
eff were still Minister of the Crown l
would wish TO abstain from all interference and
allow matters 10 take their natural course |
would pursue policy of observation. If acts
contrary to law were attempted would fight,
otherwise ! should look on with Indifference.
II labOrer chooses to select day to make
merry, or walk about in q procession, should
do nothing to prevent him with repressive legis-
lation. 1t is always the same. Outward at
tempts to prevent mischief are often the sole
reason for the mischief existing. More mischief
is sometimes done by closing street that seems
in dangerous condition when crowded than
by overlooking. or directing the circulation in
1t, as we sometimes see in other large cities.
ITO take every possible precautiOn against
every possible evil that might arise out of sit
uation is sometimes to suffer more i'll than If
you calmly awaited the issue. II is grand rule
in such cases to avoid threats, as well as to
avoid promises. When turbulent striker sees
the authorities take extraordinary measures to
preserve the peace he knows that they dread
him. and realizes this the more aggressive he
becomes.
1.-THE antagonism between the EMPLOYER and
the employed, IN my opinion. is the result of a
never come to an end. We will never reach a
situation where the laboriug men will saw. we
are satisfied both for ourselves and for our
children, for those who come after u.s. 1t NAV
be considered an axiom that the desire of the
laborer to improve his condition. to get on, will
last as long as he sees any one whose condition
is better than his own.
Improvement has taken place In the condi-
tion Of the laboriDg classes during the latter
half century. Fifty years ago the children of
poor Germany went barefoot in summer little
the age OF ten or twelve. To-day the children
of the poorer classes are decently clothed and
shod, both young and old. Their food is better
and they do not work SO many hours This is
tue. fancy, of all civilized countries
The correspondent mentioned q word con-
men belonging to guilds in fourishing cities
His Highness demolished the whole fabric of
the theory by saying: THE members of those
guilds are not w0fklngmen at all, in the mod.
ern sense. They were the aristocracy of the
workingmen. Their prosperity was based on
exclusiveness.
I'm this eternal struggle between labor and
capital. labor has scored the most victories, and
sCch will be the case whenever the laboripr
man has the ballot. Should there ever be q
final victory 1t would be HIS but If this struggle
ever did come to an end human activity would
come 70 deadlock, human struggle and striv-
ing come to an end, which do not think is tn q
intention of Divine Providence
another solution oaly is possible-where
slavery exists. For instance ia Africa whose
state Of civilization has remained the same from
time lmmemorial on the basis of slavery. the
negroes being content without striving, either
because OF the nairowness of their inteliects or
from the dread of scourging. This state of
things has existed there since history first re-
corded ii.
Yet another solution may be found in an
other part OF the world-in some thousands of