Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1903-06-26
oEsAslNo MANI 90,

at Denver last week passed resoiu-
tiops fnSoring socmisni. One of
their "M hereasas' was as follows
"Whereas. No man among the
vast ar9N OF laboring humanity can
spc,esAfuTly assert his manhood
while his necessities make him
suppiant at the feet of another for
job which he must have to sustaiif
life.
That sets Que thinking Wha
kind of a political change will re-
lease "the vast army of laboring
hnnani,y" from work? That is
question " irt. we,are al interested
IN,
The trick of legislation willreverse
the old decree that by the sweat Of
his face man must earn his bread?
In 1892 there was very much such
movement MS seems to be going on
now. Laborers were busy ali over
the country working at good wages,
quite as good as their employees
could pay, but there was the same
assumption that labor was being op-
pressed and the country voted for
change.
By the nature of the change capital
was driven into retirement, and it
was useless for Il man "to be sup
plant at the feet of another for a
job, for there were no jobs. Then
Coke armies took up their march
and it was not long until men who,
the year before, had profitable oc-
eupations, but who raised shout
that they were being oppressed,
were living upon the free soup of
charity Is that going to be re-
peated? 1t really looks possible.
The belief seems to be spreading
wider and wider among working
men that there ought to be an easier
way to make money than to work
for it, some universal receipt through |
which, without effort, to get rich |
quickly. OF course, it is delusion
unfortifed by anything in history
or mans experience, but it seems to
be breaking down the manhood and
the honest independence of millions
A healthy man who is able to work
and who receives a reward sufficient
to meet his requirements and has
something left is not an object of
sympathy. He has before him all
the possibilities of Carnegie or
Mark Hanna. When such Il man
is lured away by the mouthings OF
demagogue politicians or by agitat-
ors who work to create unrest, and
takes up the idea that in some un-
explained way be is being wronged;
that idea is the beginning of that
mans degeneration, and when it
spreads until millions of working
men are tainted and the demagogue
takers and writers begin to advertise
the complaint as a great principle
which the Government should vindi-
cate; then unless it can be quickly
arrested, national decay will begin.
When men sell their services, and
are paid for them, it is fair ex-
change between two men. The one
buys what we most need, the other
sells what will bring him the things
he most needs. There is no dis
honor, no degradation on either side.
Beyond all that is the immutable
law that it is mans obligation and
privilege to work. 1t is the only
means through which the life Of the
world can be maintained.
Considering these things, the
whereas on which this article is
founded is pure incendarism, for it
is a blow aimed at the very basis of
society and, moreover, it is an attack
upon the very basis of society and,
moreover, it is an attack upon the
very fiber of the worAingman, for
reasoning from it he, in a little
while, concludes that it is crime If
he is made to work at all, and is but
a step removed from reconciling him
to live on food and to wear clothes
that other men have earned. Good
wins Weekly.