The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-24

j. 4. SHAW, Travelling Passenger Agent
uDon putting him to work, but on giving
him as high wages as he possibly can.
POINTER FOR LANDLORDS.
Suppose YOU had your capital invested
in houses, could YOU not rent them all the
more easily and at a better price, If
the people received good wages than if
they were forced to live upon starvation
wages If the mass of the people do not
get good wages can they pay good rent2
Suppose you had your capital invested in
a store, would not you sell all the more
goods and get better prices for them, if
the people received good wages, than if
they received poor ones2 Suppose you
had your capital invested IN railroad,
would it not be to your interest for the
people TO receive good wages so that they
could abundantly buy all the necessities
I of life, which would increase the traffic
of your road so you could make money
too}
| If the people have not the money to buy
| the necessities of life can you, as a rail-
road man, make your railroad payl Not
unless you could make it pay to haul air
in your empty cars.
Suppose you were a capitalist and had
your money invested in a hat manufac-
| tory, could you sell hats unless people
had money TO buy them withi If the
head Of every family received good wages
would you have any difficulty in selling
hats to every family If you were a
! banker, could you not lend money all the
more safely if the mass of the people had
enough wages to make all these avenues of
! trade that | have mentioned profitable2
! Dry up the tributaries of river
and you dry up the river; dry up the
wages of the people and you dry up and
| paralyZe every branch of industry and
] l. H.
| wear millions Of shoes, millions of coats,
and rent millions of houses, but it is the
million masses that wear these millions
| Of things. and it is from their pockets
that the millions must come that alone
can make the successful mine, mart and
mill.
If tomorrow every idle wage worker
! could be put to work in these United
! States and had good living,
! such a demand would instantly
! be created for the necessities of life that
! every mill and idle farm would be run
| ming to their full capacity, and such an
era of prosperity would decend upon this
| country as it has never known.
The reason why trade and industry are
| paralyzed is because the mass of the peo-
pie have not the wherewithal torbuy, and
the reason why they cannot buy is be-
! cause their wages have been cut, cut, cut,
until the mass of the money is not in the
hands of the masses, but in the hands of
| the few. Never were truer words writ
ten by the pen of man than those of
| GOldsmiths:
! IN fares the land to fastening ills prey,
| Where wealth accumuates and mon decay;
! Princes and lords may flourish or may fall,
A breath can make them as a breath hath
made;
But bold peasantry, their country's pride
| When once destroyed can never be supplied
| If tomorrow some new machine were
| invented by means of which one-fourth Of
! the wage workers could be dispensed
! with, or the hours Of labor so extended
! that One-fOurth of the laborers would be
! turned out of employment, among many
| other things which ! will not mention il
would mean this: One mill out OF every
! four would of necessity be forced TO shut
down, one shop out Of every four close its
doors. one ship out of every four furl its
sails, because One-fOurth of the people
| would lose their purchasing power their
wages, and disaster would sweep over the
| land, leaving in its pathway the wreck
! age of bankruptcy, restitution, vice,
! crime and broken hearts.
! This is what is likely to happen any
day, and not only likely TO happen, but will
! happen in the future if the present long
hours of labor are continued. If the eight
hour law, or even a greater reduction
than this, cannot save the wage sys-
TEN and perpetuate the ownership of
nine-tenths Of the property of the world
in the hands of a few private individuals,
nothing can.
SCREW LOOSE SOMEWHERE.
II private capital, which has possession
of the unlimited resources of this, world
cannot make it yield a reasonable wage to
all men who viii work, it is demonstra-
tion that the system is at fault that we
haua first COnnht the kinO6Om of
heaven and Gods righteousness, for the
resources of nature are amply sufficient.
II is demonstration that the time is nigh
at hand when another system should be
tried and another stewardship demanded.
The wage system is to-day, as never
before, on trial before jury composed of
suffering humanity. If 1t is 10 be, and If it
can be Justified it must feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, and give drink 10 the
thirsty. If private capitalism can make
the wage system do that it will stand
until judgment day. But if il cannot at
least do this much, the sooner its iudg
ment day comes the better for deluded
and suffering humanity.
The feeding of the hungry the clothing
of the naked and giving drink to the
thirsty is the heart of Christianity and
that by which we shall be awarded or
denied entrance TO heaven.
When we shall appear before the eter-
: nal Judge he VIII Lhunder theSe words
I into our ears: Inasmuch as We have fed
the hungry, clothed the naked and
given drink TO the thirsty, We
have done unto me. Enter,
thou, into the joys of thy
Lord. Inasmuch as ye have not done 1t
unto these ye have not done it unto me.
| Depart from me, never knew you.
This is a Christian nation, and If its in
| dustrial system cannot at least feed the
I huptr1stf aud atOFha tho nailed and frfNp
drink to the thirsty, u is unworthy the
name OF a nation that bears the name Of
/ Christ and absolves the conscience Of
/ every Christina from being its defender
/ and upholder Let US reduce hours
/ Of labor and put all 10 work
with good wages and the system
! will take care Of itself ! am aware, Of
! course, that this can only be done by
making the eight-hour law a plank In the
/ democratic presidential platform, and