The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-28
No WAR BETWEEN
" CAPITAL AND LABOR.
BY ". ". DE LONG.

breath and icy fingers OF that modern en-
envy OF social and Industrial progress
strikes terror to the hearts Of all. and
hard times" gaunt and lean, stalks
abroad through the lard.
Surely our modern civilization Is either
the most stupid failure Of all time or the
most s,upendous fraud ever practiced upon
the children Of men, In that. IN the light
of all It's counsel and by all Its teachings
We are unable to provide the means by
which all OF our people may md profitable
employment and be clothed and fed. A
civilization which produces or allows con-
ditions of such great extremes of poverty
and affiuence, which allows labor the pro-
ducer OF all wealth. 10 starve in the midst
Of plenty, and at the same time gives to
the idle and lazy non-producer such pie
thora OF wealth that he must needs spend
il in riotous liying-suct a civilization is
no. worthy the name. The true civiliza-
tion is one IN which all the better i'm
pulses OF human nature are systematically
and scientifically developed, all the energy
OF muscle and brain conserved to the ut
most. wisely directed In the production OF
wealth and fully recompensed and re-
warded when expended for the benefit Of
the human race.
Under the present system Justice" Is
blind, falling as often to the left as TO
the right. depending upon the tradition OF
technical trickery of the advocate, while
charity" dwarfed and mishapen, Is ex-
pected 10 cover up the grossly inhuman and
grotesauely unjust results of its rulings
In the new time justice shall see clearly
and be governed by the natural. inaliena-
HE rights OF the individual. while charity
shall temper justice with mercy.
The true civilization. OF which even now
the rosy light is discernible upon the hor-
lion of time. Will usher in justice. equal
and exact Justice In the place Of the pres
ent blind misguided dwarf masquerading
under the name of justice, whose mistakes
and wIllful Shortcomings We are forever
obliged to hide with the short, thin. cold
coverlets Of modern charity.
Then human effort shall receive it's re-
ward-no; a meager pit,ance. small per
cent. OF its production. but all. all it can
produce. without tribute to any other man
Or company of men.
DO you suppose for q moment that man
would not survive The shock of being al
lowed all the necessary creature comforts
Of life. and such l1xuries as he would be
able 10 produce If he were allowed TO en-
pioy himself to the full extent of his men
tai and physical powers? Do you not know
that all the riches possessed by the ma
tions of the world were produced by labor I?
That the grandeurs of the nations and the
integrity and stability of every govern
ment IL based upon the labor of the toll
ing masses. and that the period of growth
and ascendancy of every nation is the
period In which labor is the most generally
employed In producing from natural raw
material all that goes 10 make up the sum
of a nations greatness? If today all re-
strictions were removed. and labor were
given free access TO the bounties of ma
ture, and each man were allowed to re-
tain for himself all the results of his labor
without tribute to any other man. protect
ed fully In the possession OF the fruits of
his own muscle and brain would not such
a period OF industrial activity at once be-
gin as would make the nation possessing
such a system the greatest, happiest and
most powerful nation on earth? The
waste labor employed upon the restricted
natural opportunities of this country for
one short year would produce such an
enormous and excessive volume of wealth
"a would be past comprehension.