The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-11-11
INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL.

When William II. Seward said.
there Is higher law than the consti-
tuition" he simply recognized the WELL
established principle that nothing is re-
ally law which contravenes natural.
God given rights.c Even constitution
must yield to the eternal principles of
Justice Sentinel, New York.
II am not at ali Indifferent to the
dangers that result .i1 this country. that
threaten our society from the aggrega-
ton of wealth. Anaof us cannot be rich,
but no man ought h0ibe poor. Poverty
and liberty are incompatible. say that
any man who holdS- his subsistence and
the support and mai4tainence and care
OF his wife and children absolutely at
the behest of another, who can at pleas
ure raise and depFes4 his wages or de-
prive him of them altogether, I affirm
that man is not free."-John ]. Ingalls,.
Everything thst is possloie should
be done to keep this from being ma
ton of tenants. The men who cultivate
the earth should own it."
Il would exempt homestead Of rea-
sonable value, say of the value of two or
three thousand dollars, not only from
sale under execution, but from sale for
taxes of every description" Robert In
gersoll.
People sometimes talk about the sell
fishness of trades unions, but there is
all the difference in the world between
the selfishness of a capitalist and the sell
fishness of a great labor organization.
The one means an increase of self lux
ury for one man or single family. The
other means not luxury, but increase of
decency, increase of comfort, increase of
self respect, more ease for the aged, and
more schooling for the young, not for
one, but for 10000 families. Others may
call this selfishness if they please. l
call it humanity and civilization and the
furtherance of the common weal.-John
Morley in an address to the miners in
StaffOrdshire.
THE Qabor) question Is so compli-
Gated, the complications are so countless
that solution by law, or by force,
seems at least improbable"
Capital can do nothing without the
assistance of labor. All there is of value
in the world is the result of labor. The
laboring man pays all the expenses No
matter whether taxes are laid on luxu-
ries or on the necessarieS OF life, labor
pays every cent"
"Al our sympathies should be with
the men who work, who toll; with the
women who labor for themselves and
children, because we know that labor
is the foundation of all, and that those
who labor are the Caryatides that sup
port the structure and glittering dome
of civilization and progress.
1.-The desire to acquire great wealth is
a kind of insanity"
Neither mendicants or milliOnaires
are the happiest of mankind. The man
at the bottom of the ladder hopes to
rise; the man at the top fears to fall.
The one asks, the other refuses; and,
by frequent refusal, the heart becomes
hard enough, and the hand greedy
enough to clutch and hold"
Few men have intelligence enough.
real greatness enough, to own great
fortune. AS a rule the fortune owns
them -.
I'm Judging the rich two things should
be considered: How did they get it,
and what are they doing with it? Was
it honestly acquired?. Is it being used
for the benefit of. .mankind?'
1.-The time will come when the truly
intelligent man cannot be happy, can
not be satisfied, while millions of his
fellow men are hungry and naked. -
Robert IngersOll. a