The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-06-27
CULTIVATE AND CALCULATE.
A Fruitful Subject Discussed From a
Material and Practical Stand
point.

modern times, on the influence up
on the human race, in this nine
teenth century, of those mechani-
cal contrivances, generalized under
the head of 'labor saving ma
chimes, is that INDUCED in by DIR.
G. E. Nash, whose differences on
this subject, in brief, are as fol-
lows"
For cultivators and calculators,
in considering the gradual develop
ment of our modern industrial sys-
tenn, it is matter of considerable
interest to speculate as to the
period when the first perceptions of
the economy of the distribution
of labor began to dawn upon the
human race. This fact which is
now so plain to us-the superiority
of one man and a machine over a
large body of mems something
that has come to us by degrees,
each year seeing an increase of the
machine and a decrease in the ex-
penditures of manual effort in the
making of things. Instead of every
man grinding his own -four and
baking his own bread, ten men
grind the -four for ten thousand,
and another ten men can bake
it.
The same plan operates in our
shoes, clothing and other necessi-
ties and convenience of life. Now
multiply the machines that are u.s.
ed in the manufacture of all de-
partments of industry, and multiply
the number of persons of all ages
and sizes and then see how much
manual labor has been deprived of
an honest effort to support them
selves. Then ask the question if an
excess of machinery above the le-
gitimate help to labor is not a curse
rather than a hel p to the masses.
Has it not become the master and
oppressor of the poor who are de-
pendent for subsistence which has
been taken away from them by the
millionaire, who is able to own one
machine that will do the work of a
thousand men.
Does not this machine reduce the
wages of thousand men to starva-
ton prices, and does it not reduce
them to a worse slavery than the
African? Remember that owners
of slaves were compelled to clothe,
feed and comfortably house their
servants, and to take care of them
in sickness. Slave owners were I'M
der the laws of christian govern
ment, The owner of the slave was
compelled by law to provide for
them if it took every dollar of of his
revenue to do so. Is the owner of
machine forced to take care of the
one thousand men he has thrown
out of employment No. This ex-
emplifes the words of the poet,
"Mans inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn"
Is this progress? God save us
from such progress, Everything
that deprives man, or woman, or
child from making an honest living
by their toll is against the fixed
laws of the Creator and a violation
of mans happiness and well being
on earth. There is great variety
of occupations necessary to carry
on the work of the Almighty, and
every one can be performed by the
honest and just adaptation of mind
to muscle. If all the theories that
are now ahoat for carrying on the
work of nature could be successful
ly done by machinery, where would
we be if our population continued
to increase at the present rate?
Suppose the quasi friend of the
negro could invent cotton picker
that would pick as many pounds OF
cotton in day as one hundred
persons, where would be the sup
port of the one hundred pickers
who have no other means Of sub
sistence? If the steam pillow should
come into general use where would
be the labor of the ninety pillow
men and the two hundred mules?
This is a pertinent question, and
worthy of earnest and prayerful
consideration The problem in my
mind to be solved is this; Shall we
increase the machine or decrease
the population Excess of machin-
cry is at the bottom Of all strikes in
every country
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CRANK CALLS ON HARRISON.