Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-04-11
PUBLIC OPINION.

Organized labor can save a little en-
croachment on wages here and there.
But at best wages are only relative
traps to catch gulls with; and organized
labor wastes its time if it concerns itself
only with them. 1t is like attacking the
Atlantic ocean with a mop. You must go
to the eternal springs if you expect to 60
over dry-shod. 1t is profits of labor as
well as wages that are the workingman' S
rights. Wages are mere necessity; the
fuel and oil and gearing of the machine.
If the workingman is a machine, mere
incident in the course OF production
then that is all he ought to have He is
80 classed under the modern industrial
system, and that is all he gets. But if
the workingman is flesh and blood, and
a soul besides, with rights to labor to
live and not to live to labor, then the
profits of production are his as well as
the capitalists. They are entitled to
share and share, according to their i'm
pCrtance in production.-Rev. Morris
Ross.
Nothing is more terrible than to see
the rich living off the poor. One can
hardly imagine the after heartlessness
OF man who stands between the whole
sale manufacturer and the wretched
women who make their living-or rather
retard their death-by the needle. How
a human being can consent to live on
this profit, stolen from poverty, is be-
yond my imagination. These men when
known will be regarded as hyenas and
jackaIs. They are like the wild beasts
which follow herds Of cattle for the pur-
pose of devouring those which are in
jured or have fallen by the wayside from
weakness.-Robert G. Ingerson.
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Let every clergyman remember that
he is the minister of Christ, not the
hired man of parish. Therefore, let
every minister who can fight his way to
financial independence. If he can sup
port himself in other ways than by a
salary from his parish, he will be the
freer man, and can then take his salary
(Which is due) without fear of any one.
But if he cannot, none the less let him
decline to sell his independence, if asked
to do so-let him choose independence
and God rather than slavery and salary.
The Dawn.
Monopolists are always pointing out
that cooperation will destroy individu-
allty. 1t will most assuredly eclipse the
individual monopolist. In the present
competitive system the monopolist is
about the only one who has an individ-
uality, albeit it is a selfish one. All
those under the monopolist must merge
their individuality in his individuality
If they wish to keep from starving.
True cooperation would debar all mo-
nopoly, for it would be founded upon
universal love instead of selfshness. Its
purpose would be so to tighten the bur
dens Of material labors, for each one.
that they will have time and mental
freedom to devote to the education of
their spiritual natures.
The monopolist cannot, of course.
view cooperation from the standpoint of
brotherly love, for he has not developed
any higher principles than those en-
gendered on the low plane OF COMPETE
tive strife.-Universal Republic.
Mr.. Herbert Mills, in his work "Pov-
erty and the State, says that there are
six millions Of paupers in Great Britain.
Let the pessimists chant doleful
dirges as they will, let croakers proph-
esy evil as they may, this is not the des-
tiny which the future has in store for
man, or it need not be if the true
hearted faint not nor grow weary. it
need not be that the men who are to
come after us shall be ignorant starve-
lings, morally and physically dwarfed
and twisted. We have failed to grasp
and take for ourselves the happiness
that has been within our reach. We
have turned this fair world into an
arena where neighbor strives against
neighbor and where brother is at war
with brother, where each bends all his
energies to get the advantage of his fell
low. Like the man with the muck
rake, we have been 50 intent on sordid
gains, so haunted by fears of future
want, that we have never looked up to
see the crown of glorious manhood
within our reach. Instead of the golden
age of universal brotherhood of which
sages have dreamed and poets have
sung, we have merely substituted vii
damage and the feudaI system for chat
tel slavery, and the slavery of the wage
system for these. Men, women and
children are murdered, body and soul,
in order that few may be cursed with
wealth beyond their capacity to enjoy.
We grind our children between the
upper and neither millstones of supply
and demand, sacrifice to Mammon,
as they of old caused theirs to pass
through the fire to Moloch. In order
that profit may be wrung from their la
Dor, little children are immured IN facto-
ries and grow to manhood and woman
hood without any of those sweet lnfu-
ences with which the lives of children
must be surrounded if they are to devel-
op anything but the animal part of their
nature even il they are 10 deyelnn that