The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-06-25
DEBASING MANHOOD.

The Western Federation of Miners
at Denver last week passed resolutions
favoring socialism. One of there
Whereasas" was as follows;
Whereas, no man among the vast
army OF aboring humanity can success
fully assert his manhood while his ne
cessities make him a suppliant al tho
feet Of another for job which he must
have to sustain life
That sets one thinking What kind
OF political change viii release "she
vas, army OF laboring humanity from
work? This is the question which we
are all1nterested ia.
What trick of leg station will reverse
the old decree that by the sweat Of his
face man must earn his bread II ls92
there vas very much such a movement
as seems TO ne going on now. Laborers
were busy al over the county. work.
ing Al gsol wages, quite as good a.
their employers could pay, bus there
was the same assumption tia. labor
was being oppressed and the country
voted fsr a change.
By the nature of the change capita
was driven into retirement, ana it was
useless for man TO be suppliant at
The feet Of another for q job, a" for there
were no jobs. Thea Coke armies took
up their march ara i vas not long IN
til men who, The yesr before, had pro-
fitable occupations, bai who raised a
shout that they were being oppressed,
were living uoon tn free soup Of char
lily. Is that going to be repeated? It
really looks possible
The belief seems to ne spreading
wider aud wider among working men
that there ought TO be an easier way To
make money thar to work for it, some
universal receipt through which, with
out effort, TO get rich quickly. o.
course it is delusion unfortitied by
anything in history or mans expert
ence, but it seems to be breaking down
the manhood and the honest indepen-
dence of millions A healthy man who
is able to work and who receives a re-
ward 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 Il
Mark Hanna. When such a man is
lured away by the mouthing of dema-
gogue politicians or by agitators who |
work to create unrest, and takeS up the |
idea that In some unexplained way he
is being wronged that idea is the be-
ginning of that mans degeneration,
and when it spreads until millions OF
working men are tainted and the dema.
gogue takers and writers begin to az
vertise the complaint as great prin-
ciple which the government should
vindicate; then, unless it can be quickly
arrested, national decay viii begin
When men sell their services, aud are
paid for them. it is fair exchange be. |
tween two men. The one buys what
he most needs, the other sells what viii
bring him the things he most needs.
There Is no dishonor, no degradation
on either side Beyond all that is the
immutable law it e IN MS obligation
and privilege to work. It is the only
means through which the life OF the
word can be maintained.
Considering these things, the whereas
on which this article is founded is pure
incendarism, for it is blow aimed at
the very basis OF society and, moreover
it is an attack upon the very fiber OF
the workingman, for reasoning from
it he, in little while, concludes that il
is crime II he is made to work at all,
and is but step removed from recon-
Cling him to live on food and to wear
clothes that other mon have earned. =
Goodwin's Weekly.