Year: 1879

tions, undisputed and lndlsputaDie, thao
capital cannot be made productive except
through labor and that labor finds in cap
ital its most natural and most efficacious
friend, handmaid and ally, let us consider
the means and methods by which each
NAV be the most serviceable to the other;
the theory that may lead 10 permanent
peace, friendship ard alliance between
them the rules Of action by which all an
tagonism between them may be ended
and the remedy for that rivalry between
them which always tends to the damage
of both.


When the means of the husbandman
are all invested in his farm. his house, his
furniture, his cattle, his barns, his stone
walls, his orchards, his groves, his gar
dens and his implements, there is no an
tagonism between that capital and his
own labor and that of his sons and daugh-
ters. Capital and labor on his farm, and
in his house, are entirely 1T peace each
with the other Whether the work done
is to secure present comfort, to increase
the means of rational pleasure, to gather
new capital or to improve the old, ident-
ty of interest and equitable sharingin re-
suits produces invariable harmony. All
members of the family, from the paternal
head to the youngest son or daughter,
know by the instinct of associated efforts
that they are all TO be benefited by tn"
labor of all, whatever form the returns
for their industry may assume.


This primitive patriarchal union of cap
italized interests with labor interests may
not be capable of any effectual and per-
manent extension, but it contains hint


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have similar results All industrial en-
terprises cannot in the nature of things,
be carried on by capitalists who do all
their own work or in other words by la
borcrs who are all joint owners of the
property employed in such enterprises.
But a system by which all who are en-
ployed should be part owners and joint
sharers in pr ceeds whenever practicable
would give new stimulus 10 industry
and remove all of that selfshness on the
part of proprietors and that jealously on
the part OF employees which cause so
much trouble between the two classes.
Laborers in mandatory would no
longer find an apparent enemy IN labor
saving machinery, since their own work
would be lessened and they would all
share in the increased profits. Laborers
on a farm of many square miles in extent
owned by themselves in approximately
equal shares, would toll v ith moro zeal
and more contentedly when knowing that
they are to obtain the entire benefits of
their care and industry, whether result
ing from sales of products and stock or
from the increased value of their land
with its improvements. Such laborers
would have no desire to destroy steam
threshers, and patent reapers and NOV
ers, as all would derive increased profit
from their use. All would be interested
in employing the best methods of agri-
culture administered by thoroughly
competent directory. Every means of
profting by cooperation would be en-
couraged. There would be no antagonism
between capital and labor, nor any dis
position on the part of one to pay as little
wages, and of the other to do as little
work as possible. There would be a
steady and profitable accumulation of cap
ital which would cause no jealousy, envy
or discomfort, since all would share in it.


Associated capital in the form supposed
would have all its good effects the same
as if owned by one man. 1t would make
practicable the blending of the wages
system with the joint-stock or shares sys-
tenn. 1t would take away from ownership
the features which make selfish accumu-
lation damage to possessors and dam
age to laborers. 1t would greatly promote
the feeling of personal independence, and
replace strife and contention by friend
ship and mutual good will. Each associ
ate would become interested in the well
being Of all the rest, and the disposition
to monopolize any advantages of the gen.
eral property would be discouraged.
Even the ambition of those having excep-
tional talent would find satisfaction In
more meritorious service TO the little com
monwealth.


This intimate blending of production
and wealth, labor and capital, ownership
and manual service, would be without a
single feature of communism and would
have no tendency towards agrarianism.
It would encourage the spirit of thrift and
accumulation without stimulating selfisb-
ness and avarice. That difficulties, nu>
merous and formidable, will be met in
putting this principle of association into
action must be expected, but it is towards
this principle that all efforts to improve
and elevate the functions of labor must
tend-N. O. Picdyune.


SAVANNAH, September 8.-Arrange>
ments for laying the corner stone of the
monument to Sergeant VIM. Jasper, of
the revolutionary army, who fell at the