The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-22

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which permit gigantic corporatIons 20
to the point of a bare living. For this
ssife competition and pave down wages
justice, which is the offspring of religion.
The golden rule should guide both en-
ployers and employed; 1t should Dc
every civil law is null and void which. Il
not based on the eternal laws OF Justic'
n the law of God; Wealth at sho onG ?
obligations. The politician should learr.
that a divinity called a conscience dwells
aetions. ms T 9Us0m lab lor sns should galHIn learn n !" to
cherish and embrace forever the gospel
of industry and thrift. and when he
easier of solution: Corporations should
be made to confine themselves within
the four corners of their charter, and
the relation of landlord and tenant be,
tween employer and employed should
not be permitted to exist, except with
such legal guarantees as will secure the
utter mercy of his master, who assumes
the several functions of feeding, cloth
ing and honlestnng hin. p1curs
1.-THE w-orkingman has rights. Among
them is the right of association. This
is a natural right and canmnot, be contra
lists not for the destruction but for the
protection. of natural rights. 1t cannot
gainsay the right of workmen to asso-
ciate for the protection of their common
interest without denying the principle of
its own existence, for the right by which
men associate in public and in private
they have no right to, associate for un-
lawful purposes, or to employ unlawful
has the 10 right ghtai To t cease e work. b but he h haa
no right to compel his fellow man to
do the same. W~orkingmen should shun
invisible and irresponsible leaders. trust
more to their common sense and the
justice of employers.
Strikes are a drastic and dangerous
great strike in Chicago was the most
calamitous event in the country since
the civil war. 1t was unjust when it
pay for Pullman cars whether they used
them or not. Strikes nearly always
strike the innocent. They foment evil
property and infict far greater loss on
workmen themselves than on their en-
ployers: The day of strikes, says Pow
THE condemnation Of the Chicago
strike was the vindication of individual
liberty, the assertion of the supremacy
archy. The mob can never rule, and
the great truth is upheld that he who
respects not the liberty Of his fellow,
American citizen. The workingman has
the right TO just and honorable treat
ment. The law of supply and demand
it is not the absolute and ultimate stand
ard for the regulation of wages. The
workman has the right to being and to
well-being- Rieardo's iron-clad doctrine
of supply and demand loses sight of the
dignity Of the workman and degrades
him to the level of an animal machine.
Labor Is rather a loan of work. and
wages the, reward. given for it; Wages
are that share which falls so the work
the workmen had, besides, a right to
fruits of 1ahOr bnt pVpro this On the
workmen would be paid twice. Adam
Smith, however, is undoubtedly right
receive more in wages than IS necessary
for a bare living, nay, enough to sus-
tain bis nln1Ls on r,,n, OWNS
but if a workman has a right to
woTk. And worfamen nv Who f fail to % .d Ihe
their work are guilty of injustice. That
there are many such cannot be denied,
and such Improbable servants not only
injury to their fellows, but Contribute
much to render callous and insensible
the hearts OF employers to real needs of
both capitalists and laborers is the great
evil Of today. Infdelity has even in
among laborers, empires in science,
pettifoggers-fn-law. ouacks in theology.
Men will preach on the transit of Venus
the Word of God. We want larger faith
in the true. the beautiful and the good,
in the old~-fashioned heaven and hell.
and not. as Carlyle says, in the belief
that the only heaven here is to be rich,
and that the only hell we can ever suffer
is to. be destitute of the power of money
making.
1.-THE stagnation of trade will doubtless
pass away. We shall grow yet greater
the hum of human industry; the ciack
of the cotton mill will echo to the music
of every waterfall; our ships will scour
may surpass ancient Rome and Carthage
as much as they surpassed Phoenicia,
till we become the wealthiest nation
But let us walk carefully. Wealth brings
luxury and weakness, which lave oc-
casioned the downfall of more nations
than ever persisted by the thunder bolts
of war"