Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
sTANFoRD's BRIGHT PICTURE.
Labor's Chances Good as Ever and No Dan
ger From Anarchy or Monopoly.

Labor's Chances Good Ever and No Dan.
ger From Anarchy or Monopoly.
Senator Leland Stanford went to Cali
fornia worth less than one thousand dollars.
He is now worth one hundred million dol
lars. He is interested in nearly every large
enterprise on the Pacific slope, and he has
during the past generation been one of the
largest employers of the country. Said
he:
"The uneasiness which exists among the
laboring men of the United States is a good
sign. Our laborIng classes appreciate that
their condition might be bettered, and out
of this good cannot fail to come. The con-
dition of the laboring men of America i'm
proves from year to year, and they are to-day
by no means badly off. There is no honest
laboring man who cannot have the comforts
of lite in America, and there are few who
have not the physical comforts OF the rich.
''The American who works by the day is
physically as we'll off as the Emperor of All
the Russias, and the Kaiser of Germany
sleeps upon a harder bed than m { of ou r
labOrers. 1 dare say that the labor,r sleeps
better and that his meals taste sweeter to
him. He need not go hungry, and his
wages will provide him with the warmest
clothes in winter. If he is industrious and
provident he can have good roof over his
head, aud he can have luxuries that the
kings Of three generations ago had not
There will, however, always be differences
In conditions, and if you were to cover the
streets of New York with $40 gold pieces in
the morning, some of the men who gathered
them up would have to beg for a nights
lodging u hours later"
WHY HE HIRED INDIANS.
"The laboring man of California," Sena-
tor Stanford went on, ''is better off than any
laborer of the present or past IN the history
of the world. Food is plentiful, and every
variety or it is cheap. The hod-carriers
about Los Angeles get So day, and fruit
rotted on the ground last summer for want
of men to pick it up. / had to add 100 In
dians to my force of grape-gatherers because
could not get that number OF white la
borers, and there is always work enough
and to spare.
Compare this condition with those of
other countries. The laboring man on the
banks of the Nile gets no money at all, and
he merely receives a small portion of the
produce for working all day long. He
lives upon the cheapest and meaneSt of food
and vegetables are so scarce that he COM
nences to eat his radish at the little end in
order that it may last the longer. Laborers
in India gets cents a day, and the Ameri-
can laborer could not live on the iood the
East Indian eats.
Modern invention has increased the lux
uries OF the laboring man. 1t has reduced
his hours of work and has brought forth the
inexhaus.ibie supplies of the earth to him.
1t is IN this that our people surpass ancient
Greece and Rome.
MACHINERY AND EDUCATION.
Now a man in California, by machinery,
can produce more wheat than 60 men in
India, and notwithstanding their Scent
labor, DE completes successfully with them
In the markets of Europe. 1t is through
machinery that the condition of the labor
ing man will continue 10 improve, and his
condition will be bettered as his intelligence
grows, and as he applies it to the forces
around him. NV idea as to the solution of
these troubles is that education should be
encouraged and that the laboring man be
put in condition to take advantage of
what genius may develop. Such inventions
as the Mccormick reaper are rare, but every
intelligent man can learn to use them and
10 make money out of them, and the edu-
Gated. industrious and provjdent laborer
will always have the comforts of life.
"Are you not alarmed at the growth of
socialism in the United States?''
"No," replied Senator Stanford, mot in
the least The disturbers are all foreigners,
and our laborers have no part with them
The American workingmen have been
brought up on the Declaration of Indepen-
deuce. They appreciate its principles, and
will always control the labor sentiment OF
this country, and, as to the foreign element,
I think it should be regulated by law.
IDEAS ON NATURALIZATION.
"The naturalization laws should be ex-
tended to 81 years. Only one-ffth of the
American people now vote. This one-6fth
makes all the laws for the other four-ffths,
aud il foreigners have the benefit OF the
same laws that we make for jour-ffths of
our own people, don't see why they should
complain. And ii they are not satisfied with