Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-11

10un0 In the near future. In the mrs
place it seems to me that our general gov
ernment ought to brush aside all objec
tions and supervise our transportatIo
companies to such an extent that they
will not be able to arbitrarily control the
business arteries of the country any
longer; at least sufficiently to prevent
them from discriminating against differ
ent sections of the country that they
have an interest in tearing down. TIL.
time is coming when it will be considered
as barbarous to allow the employe to take
advantage ofsome exigency of his employ
er's business TO increase his wages, as the
old trial by combat is now regarded
Courts will eventually be established with
authority to adiudicate all questions in,
voiving the adequacy of compensation-
time of labor, and kindred questions
where the employer has under him a
stated number of hands.
1t will not do to permit the business OF
! the country to be obstructed by these con-
tests between master and servant longer
nor will it do to say that strikes are
wrong and should be discoun tenanced, i,
in every case. AS Justin Mccarthy
points out, "a strike is a good or bad
thing according as the object of it is good
or bad.'' True, it is a loss to both cap
al and labor, land some OF our daily pa
pers would have us believe that it is
loss brought on by the encroachments Of
is lay
but because lawsuit is waste of time
and money we are not therefore to abol-
ish courts. Some object to any action on
the part of the State, OH the ground of
the tendency of the State to reach, out
and exercise undue control over matters
that ought to be left to the individual.
1t may be said in answer to this that the
increase OF pOpulation-the close pressing
of men together-of itself creates a more
complex state of socie5y-new duties,
new obligations, new interests, and new
points of contact in every direction. So
that the State is compelled, in order to
prevent Earring and confusion, to extend
its supervisory power to meet the new
conditions. People who live in the
city submit to police and Sanitary reg
ulations, that would be very irksom
to those who dwell in the country.
There is this to be said, however, that
while the laborer is rushing into combi-
nations and societies TO fl ee himself from
the control of the capitalist classes, his
society may come to more despotically
dictate his actions than his former master.
Thus it often comes about
'That he who roars for liberty
Faster binds tyrant's power,
And the tyrants cruel glee
Forces on the freer hours"
In conclusion, / may add that this has
become an age of change to such an ex-
tent that it is almost useless to formulate
theories, or to attempt to predict what
will take place. Our rapidly advancing
sciences render it necessary that
we should continually adjust our social
and political theories to meet their contin-
ually changing requirements: for the
mind cannot advance in one direction
without being affected in all others. So
iU falls out that. in this latter time, new
theories of property, new theories of la
Dor, new theories of the hours OF labor, |
have sprung up. New claims are being |
made. Light, air, and water, say our |
are admitted by all to be |
The common property of all, for life could |
not be sustained without Them, Why |
should not land be likewise free? for |
without land men must die, They as
ruly draw their substance therefrom, as
he grass. Men do not possess them
selves OF more air than they need to
breathe, and then only tor the time they
lit. Why should they be allowed co
possess themselves of more land than is
necessary to sustain life, to the exclu
ion OF their fellows. to whom it is equal
y necessary? These, and other kindred
uestions, are coming oyer the horizon
# the future. Truly, 1.-THE old order
hangeth,' and, like Sir Bedivere,
With the days and the years darkening
IS, we go forth. s'Among new men,
TRANCE faces, and other minds.