New-York tribune., 1907-03-03
By EUGENE WOOD


lie got what he worth 10 her income
bnnger- She could take IN washing and i've as Well
He was Just a common workingman but he must
have helped lot 10 add 10 the sum OF things by
which our existence IS made possible.
Next TO the courts means of finding out what
the value of a man IS. naturally turn 10 the time
when, and the section of the country where. there
used TO be regular markets for buying and selling
human beings. have heard that strong, healthy
Young workIngman with good teeth would bring
from thousand To fifteen hundred dollars. We
might start on that basis If 1t was not that fifty
Years or so in this country have made such COM
plete change IN the labor market that nothing now
IS like what 1t then. The heaviest and cluusiest
and simplest machinery was not strong enough 20
stand bought labOrerS rough handling, and what
done then by the push and pull OF muscle done
now by the WhTling of wheels sO much cheaper and
quicker that there Is no comparison Also, for al
sections of the country the skill of the workman has
been replaced by the certainty Of the machine
Then and in that market q man who had trade
brought higher prloc. Nowadays, more and more
the worker Il preferred who knows only one little
bit of the business, bur out that little bt
with the swiftness and regularity OF machinery
But here IS the main point OF proof that this
market Is criterion for 10 go by You have heard
about the dignity of labor In those DAYS this
doctrine was So strongly believed in that it wasn't
every Tom, Dick, and Harry who was allowed 70
labor 10 any extent The worker had To have Il vcTv
dark complexion and have lUnlv hair He was. in
short, Negro. That he OF all the races earth,
should have been chosen 10 engage in productive
on principle before IT knows what the principle is.
negro EartheSt from RIOCkey
rr7IIE Negro was picked ont as the man 10 advance
civilization long before the cthnol.sjsts learned
that OF all races the Negro Is the irheSt removed
from the original monkey type lie got 10 be 81 man
long before AnGlo-SaXons broke themselves of
dangling by their tails from The tree limbs.
The Negro came to America from Africa, bu, not
Willingly. II cost LOT 10 chase him and eaten him.
to drag HIM down 10 the coast. 10 assist LS
immigration 20 tins land, which the refuge of the
oppressed ot all nations and 10 top II Ill of Great
Britain had 10 put IN her oar. and Interfere with
her war ships in the transaction Of a business in
which widows and orphans had invested their Ettc
all Just the same rs they now du IN railway stocks.
All along the line from Africa 10 America the
commanded high price 10y the time they were
landed. And finally our country passed laws pro-
mbltng their importation.
What with the increasing demand for cotton. and
the IaCt that when he worked for all he was
worth in the cotton field the Negro was supposed
10 last Tor only about wears YOU can sec that
his price was artIhCIally away up To-day We
do not discriminate against of al races engaging
IN guntul employment. and immigration goes on II
the rate OF q million wear. ! do not know how long
the WorNngman of to-day lasts but VIII bet COoIv
that Uncle Tom in his worst DAYS under Legrce
dldn have II half So hard as some of these Huns
and Polacks IN the iron mills. Uncle Tom might he
whipped TO death, but ne not burned up alive
IN molten metal
Since the laborcr. whether he is Uncle Tom or a
WhIte man, has 10 earn enough 20 paw his board
and keep before he begin 10 make money for the
man VINO gives hlm employment and thus keeDs HIM
out OF the poorhouSe IL IS good business 10 make,
ms board and keep as inexpensive as possible But
when a healthy WOTklngman cost from one thousand
10 htteen hundred dollars II didn't paw 10 cut II too
fine IN the way of maintenance or he might nor
last out seven wears Nobody win sens.
enough To come in out of the rain would rru,,t. tb,.
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