The Newtown bee., 1892-08-05
THE BEE BUZZ.

Capital and labor are like husband and wife. If they are properly and truly united ,the twain are one in every mutual interest. What is good for capital is good for labor and what is best for labor must be best for capital in the long run |; and, whenever they quarrel, it is always bad for both, because, in the Eature of the case, the one cannot be happy with out the good will of the other. When husband and wife picker, contend and separate, it makes wretched business for all concerned and it don't pay. The best good of society is secure only as hus- band and wife love each other in all fidel- ity. Divorce capital and labor and the business of life must be crippled and the family of mankind must suffer.
 Now, to carry out the figure, capital, in the nature of the case, is the husband and the executive head of the industrial house. Capital is the masculine, con- trolling and responsible factor in the
 problem and the head of the wife. Cap
 ital seeks labor and proposes and plans
 and builds house and takes the risks of
 business and supports the family and, of right, requires obedience and fidelity. Capital must be respected.
 But what is capital? It is labor accu-
 mulated and condensed. Capital and la bor are both of the same created nature,
 materially and vitally related and, there fore, mutually dependent. Capital is born of labor and nourishes it and, in
 turn, labor is begotten and nourished and protected by capital. Capital, labor,
 products and profits all belong to the
 same family of human interests and can-
 not afford to quarrel with each other. The capitalist is laborer working with the accumulated power of his capital won 1 by successful labor. The results of his labors are invested in enterprises giving opportunities, and improved opportuni- ties, for others to labor and make capi- tai. There is nothing more stupid in l this world than for laborers to fight with
 capital.
 ] If it is wrong for men to accumulate
 wealth, which makes it possible for them
 to give employment to hundreds and ! thousands of men who must work and
 live, then. on the same principle, it must be wrong for the laborer to have any wages above the necessities of living Jest
 he ill turn may also lay up money and be- come bloated bondholder and d hateful
 and oppressive capitalist. ''Sauce for
 the goose is sauce for the gander." If it
 is wrong for the capitalist to oppress the
 laborer, on whom he is dependent for his gains and profits, so also it must be equally wrong for the laborer to hinder and harrass the capitalist on whom he is dependent for his daily bread. The la
 borer who strikes generally hits himself 1 in the stomach.
 l Tyranny is tyranny on whichever side 1 it may be found; but there is no tyranny like that of mob, which in it's senseless rage destroys its own means of subsist-
 ence and burns the bridges over which il
 must pass for it's own safety. Capital
 and labor both have rights and duties te
 each other which both are bound to re spect and all men, as last resort, have the natural right of revolution agains
 oppression, which cannot and ought no
 to be borne; but, when men ignore tn, civil law of society, which is the common
 safeguard of all and resort to the peril 1 force and conflict, they who take tn l sword must take also the risk of perish l ing by the sword.-[O. o. Wright.