Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-15
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER Is. 1892.

are as class intelligent, virtuous, self
reliant, womanly, modest.
If we delay, England viii take the lead
In the emancipation OF woman
The nation that first gives woman
equal rights with man will earn o crown
Of imPcrishable glory.
The old parties, controlled as they srs
By the liquor power and vast monopo
Hstic and other influences, cannot, dart
not even propose, muoh less seriously
purpose to overthrow the saloon, gran,
equal suffrage, or do any other act in the
direction of a benifcent reform antagon
istic to these controlling influences.
They need them this year for re-elec
tion; they will need them next time ant
on as long as they have an existence
Powerful political parties invariably liz
time become corrupt, and utterly help
less to right themselves The only rea
service they can d II TO no out Of exist
enee. 1t is singular phenomena thai
good men will remala n afhaation with
such parties and thus lend aid and com
fort 10 the liquor business
The financial question in our platform
is briefly and fairly stated and broad
enough to satisfy all reasonable men ir
these words: "The money OF the coun.
try should consist of gold, silver and
paper" Also that 1t be ISSUED By ths
government only" It should OF course
be in sufficient quantity to meet all de
mands, and the volume be 40 increased
a nd adjusted as at all times to respond te
the conditions OF the country.
OF all the forms used by men to over.
reach each other In the scramble fol
wealth, there Is none more oppressive
and blighting to labor and business gen.
orally than the monopoly Of money.
Combinations to lock up capital with
the view to raise the rate OF interest, or
to reduce the price of labor or com modi-
ties, should be made illegal
Take farmers for example. As clas,
they are compelled to be, and as a ru le
are, frugal Yet there Is little doubt
that she mortgages which cover thai I
farms indicate with almost unerring Ger.
tainty the oveIcharge OF interest the are
obliged to pay.
should be made low ana reasonable for
the benefit of all classes, occupations and
industries, and be uniform In all the
States. No man ought % be compelled
to pay exhorbitant interest because he is
poor. If his security is doubtful, exact
ing from him high interest will not In
crease his ability to pay. As a matter of
equity all who honestly and promptly
IL b. - ~ L. II
low rate of interest. IL combinations
may Se formed ad libitum to accumulate
and hoard the money and the wealth of
the country, they will soon have it in
their power to stop the,very wheels Of pro-
gress-to exercise dangerous control over
legislatures, courts and congresses, IL not
virtually 30 dictate all the affairs Of the
nation.
In a wide sense all who pursue useful
occupations, professions or callings are
laborers. In the busy hive of national
industry there II place for the merchant,
the mechanic the doctor, the teacher, the
learned professor, the lawyer, the lcgis-
lator-in a word, for all who in any man
ner perform useful or valuable service
In the common conception OF tho terra
laborers (which may use), Il Is usually
applied to those who labor with their
hands. Happily in this land Of freedom
and equal rights all labor IL regarded as
honorable and none moro useful than
manual labor
In order to relieve the labor Of the
country Of It's abnormal and often con-
gested condition, there should be the
earliest possible revision and restriction
of the immigration and naturalization
laws of the United State. These laws, so
inimical to American labor and the best
interests Of all, II not purposely enacted,
have doubtlessly been kept In force for
partisan considsrasions-for fear Of
detriment to partiZan interests-till our
country has become the almost daily
scene of riots, lawlessness and bloodshed,
and not unfrequently on such scale as to
portend, IL permitted to go unchecked, the
possible subversion of all authority. The
discord between capital and labor cannot
safely be allowed to continue. No matter
what the cause, 1t is imperative to re-
move it
The general welfare and even the fate
of the nation demand that q remedy be
found and applied, whether by arbitration
or otherwise. Tribunals Of adequate
Jurisdiction can be provided to decide all
differences between men or bodies of men,
be they large or small, capitalists and
laborers, or employers and the employed.
Labor itself has the deepest interest in
the general welfare, ALI its hopes are
inseparably associated with the prosperity
and destiny of the nation. All intelli-
gent and patriotic Americans conceds that
the laboring classes and all classes have
the right to ask and to receive ample and
adequate protection under just and equal
laws.
Intelligent laboring men being in the
majority at the polls, must bear In mind
their own responsibility In making the
laws to which themselves and all others
are bound to yield obedience.
That capital sometimes overreaches la
bor is doubtless true. There seems to
be no limit to human greed.
That labor Is sometimes unreasonable
and even vicious is also probably true.
But lawlessness and lawless combina-
tions Of men, the only effect of which In
to enervate and destroy, must at once be
put under the ban of severe public disap-
probation If this country IL to prosper.
In the national hive there should be no
irones. There should be room-and
there Is room-for all to labor, and all
ought TO have and must have the right to
labor It Is duty and right that all
men have to earn their bread and support
their families II 1t be necessary to have
organizations as q defense against cap
ital or competing labor, such organiza-
tions should be authorized and regulated
BY law.
Whatever tariffs may do they do not
seem adequately, If at all, to protect la
bor. Except the partial effort 70 check