The Delta independent., 1891-05-07

With the coming of spring Gentle An
ME-" it again becomes the duty of all news
papers TO ju4coasly remind its readers that
the price of grub il labor. While ad-
vice to the exact amount of wheat spuds
or onions that should be planted or the max
imum size of bouders that the town marshal
may put in the street is a matter for judicive,
notice, yet in such things dctiniteness is not
the article wanted as it indicates too strong
an attack of the common western malady
known as the "big head"
To the rooster that rents raAch. seed and
mules being furnished, and then mortgages
the expected crop for supply of overails,
bacon, flour and CO., K stove, the chances are
ten to one that the crop will not mnt-rialize
and that the overalIs und bacon will be in a
ruinous condition by the time the water tax
and the wind whistles about his ears. lie
Will very likely reluctantly say to the ditch
owner aud the winds, "let 'er whistle, -
while he joins hands with the communists
and tackles the ant that worked during the
summer and tries to make him divide, "for
the air and water is fru and the world owe.
US all Il living"
Voluntary inactivity which is simply an
other name for laziness. has always been III.
first degree in all organizations having for
its object less work and more money. A
season of good crops when the work must be
done or the crap lost is not n season Of great
political agitation for politics rs usually run
has very little use for honest work. A series
of short crops is responsible for the advent
Of 'SucklesS Simpson" aud the trend of
thought aud action that manufacturing sock.
less is the same AS actuates the striking
worker in the cotton and wooden mills; in
coal mines and ship yards, on railroads aud
in rolling mills; the desire to not only be
paid well for their work but to share in tn.
profits arising from the Use Of the capital
and brains of their employers. Society has
sot yet reHched that state OF felicity when
the man who earns ten tiiHes as much as
some other man because kc is worth it, is
going to divide. This is Il land of equal
rights and one person has us good right
HIS another to become bank president or q
railroad magmate provided, always that he
has the ability, SO rs a matter OF fact the
question of equal rights becomes, in the west.
tongue, one OF DRAINS ana rustic. Brains
and labor go together to insure success and
the more suitable the combination, the richer
the result and it matters no, where, whether
in raising cabbage. making locomotives or
directing the affairs Of II nation. The fitting
sense ofjustce that every loyal American
possesses must ultimately prevail and the
social Incendiaries that have crei,t into the
ranks Of all organizations will soon run
their race. Prosperity and the chronic
kicker do not abide beneath the same roof.
In time of prosperity social revolutions
are not started. The so called Temperance
man did not start in prosperous mining
camp,but its first hold wa, Obtained in rura!
New England when the accumulation of
wealth is by starvation. Truly this is a
strange world but strange as il is, the worker,
the individual that by honest eff,rts of mind
and muscle strives to do his honest snare of
worlds labor, in niue cases out of ten easily
''knocks the persiHmons."