The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06
TIE LABOR PROBLEM.

To the Editor Of the San T. dncisc1 CaII-SIR
"The world owes me a living is an excuse for
not making any attempt 10 get living. The
world owes Us nothing. 1t is simply the big
pudding which every living creature has
10 Try to get share of through eXertion
When the parent eagle thinks his young are
far enough advanced to look out for tnem-
selves, he throws them out of the nest, on the
principle root or die; but the young eagles
prosper.
In the human family we see similar results !;
the most successful men of the age are thase
who were thrown early on their own urces,
but there always must be certain mental
foundation which creates that energy and
assists that iron Will through which success Is
achieved.
As men are so uuequally provided for by
nature in the mental Capabilities and more
often suffer by iuju dicjous training in their
youth without any fault of their own, they
cannot be all equal successful In their under
IaklngS. There is no posi- bic remedy for that
To what extent is ii the States duty to pro-
vide for the individual, aud what is the State
The physically and mentally disabled are
now taken care OF by every State or commu-
nifty in the Union, and have no voice in the
Government. The others constitute that State
and make the laws As the msiority ru les, or
ought TO rule it is not likely that the ma Ority
will ever be in position to ask for aid and
enact laws for their own assistance; nor would
ii be desirable for any State or community 10
have laws 10 provide work for everybody
they would be sYamped and BANKRUPT in
short order, as the influx OF other localities
would be prodigious.
The UalfMilrion Club of San Francisco
would lose Is job. and such relief could only
be given By the National Government But
such relief is not necessary. We have no over
production, but under-consumption We are
not able to consume our own manu- factured
goods when we send our money out of the
country TO pay for The manufactured goods of
other lands, when If this money were paid To
our own people for labor they would be able
TO buy our goods.
The working class are the largest buvers
They continually agitate against monopolies
but they create them. They will buy only in
the biggest places, and look wi III contemDt ON
small store, which may have been started nv
one of their own creed, and let him perish
Many of them find this out to their own sor.
row. II every workingman would reflect unon
what he wears, he would be astopished to
find that most OF it is made outside that Sfate
because when he buys ne has no other consid,
GRAFTON than the price
Assistance OF home industry finds po con.
siderauon in his personal feelings. He AL.
mits II 10 be good thing on general princf
pies, pGt wants TO reserve his right To- do az
he pleases; but when n capfta Isl who bss
spent some millions the last few wears for
California labor gets some thing from oufsida
ne Is denounced as the enemy of Californis
labor The laboring class have 10 be ST. ~ io
more heeral among themselves tnen they
can monopoliZe good deal of their owT
trace, whlch mas to be the eventual solution
OF the labor problem. CF GpApo =
San Francisco, June 3 1897