The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-11-21
Labor and Capitol
Gas. A. Tate)

and important classes OF people
those who labor and those who fur
nish the funds.
II is a lamentable fact that. for
a long time. there has been spirit
OF suspicion and prejudice steadily
and increasingly developing between
these two important companies OF
people. This ought not to be. We
always have had. and probably al
ways will have. these two apparently
indispensable classes or companies
among us. The Prince of Teachers
said. "Ye have the poor always with
you" Presumably the rich also. In
fact, and in a general way, we all be-
lons to one or the other OF these two
great groups of people. The rich
do not all live in one state or on one
continent, while the poor, (or the
laboring class all reside in another
state or another continent. We are
living in the same communities. often
side by side. We are therefore
neighbors or at least, We should be:
and should ever think of and treat
each other as such. BE 1t remember
ed that. None OF US liveth to him
self" Under the present economic
order. these two groups are absolute
ly dependent upon each other-they
ARE workers together"
Labor is capital the same as wealth
is capital. Money is simply a con-
venlent medium OF exchange and also
measure of value. For instance,
money does not grow cotton. 1t re-
quires labor thence the laborer) TO
do that. This is too clear to require
argument. The importance of capital
is not so readily seen by many. The
! farmers cotton 80 valuable today,
would not be worth hardly anything
in the market IL II were not for the
operation OF capital. What would II
be worth without the gin? Someone
hobs up and states that the farmers
may own and operate their own gins.
Very true. But what about financ-
ing and operating the iron mines
from which the metal for gin build
ing came? Who furnishes the money
for providing and operating the
great factories where gin machinery
is turned out? Who organizes, plans
and furnish the capital-huge sums
of Unnecessary for the construction
OF rail roads and rolling stock, by
means of which gin machinery may
be conveyed from mines and factory
to points convenient to the cotton
farms? But cotton is not ready for
tho consumer when it leaves the gin.
II was only the raw material. What
would it be worth without the cotton
mills where It is manufactured into
various kinds OF cloth and visit to
the dye plant where the fabrics are
properly colored? BY means OF dye
stuffs. much OF which comes from
tho bowels of the earth. involving
the expenditure OF much wealth AMI
thus made fit and desirable for use
and ready for market? Once again,
suppose We have the cotton, the gins
the cotton mills. the dyes and the
dye plants. how much cotton could
he used and at what price without
adequate transportation facilities al
READY referred to, by means OF which
the unfinished product is shuttled
from one center to another unul
ready for the consumer?
1t is quite true that labor Is one
of tho essential factors in all these
industries and should be highly APP
praised. but is not capital equally es-
sential? This enquiry reminds me
of question once put to my grand
father about a piece of manchinery'
the working of which | did not un-
ldarstand. He answered without Civ
ing me much light on my query that
i, was one wheel within the other and |
the one could not do without the
other. So it is, think, with capital
and labor. Neither one wbuld be
of much value without the other.
other for it's success and happiness.
The two things essential to har-
mony and success are. that the two
groups. labor and capital, clearly un-
derstand there relations to each
other and that all parties practice
the golden rule. Capital may orsa-
nize and plan. labor may organize
and federate. commissions may be APP
pointed and serve. councils may be
convened, treaties may be solemnly
ratified. but plan and strive as we
may, the proclamation of the Heaven
" Host. at the birth of the Saviour
.n - oaaca UOOd will toward