Capital and Labor,

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 648, 18 August 1891, Page 2

Capital and Labor,

M LysnAß gives the following ideas from his study of history:—From the earliest times all humanity seem to have been divided into two parties ; Conservatives on one side, and Radicals on the other. The aim of the Conservatives has been to make all things easy and p'easant to them’“lve’> the object of the Radicals was simply to live. According to history, men banded themselves together for mutual protection and support. That was doubtless the origin of society. Our records have preserved to us the details of clanships and feudalism; and daring the reign of chaos, the e forms eminently served their purpose, for the ties that bound them together were strong and natural, Bnt as tho primilive generations passed awqy, these ties gradually loosened, till the time of the reformation, when, the land left for oharitab'e purposes being absorbed by wealthier classes, also large areas nf common land being ene'osed a gulf was formed, whare no division rxisted before, and pauperism firat appeared. Sue eessive governmen’-s have been vainly rndstvorjng ever since, by poor law enactments to meet the famishing wants of thesg countless multitudes, who have been gradually datrauled nf th’lr natural inherit anoe. The Cm’ervativea now hold to th’ land, but Ignore the duties which nor primitive fathers held to ba seared. The widening of the gulf between rich and poor has reduced the latter class to ths verge ef'atarvation, which has been taken advantaag of ijy the wsalthy, and so has cause! the unscrupulous giant, ozllql Capital, to step forth, ths outcome as it were of modern civilisation. This being is simply the combined essence of matter drawn from the blood of labour, and is now being used to terrorise and crush all attempts to remedy the present threatening state of society. Unionism is the only means of saving the forking classes from being reduced to the most abject slavery ; a slavery far more debasing than that of negroes. Every body of workers should have its union, these unions should unite and form one, whose operations should bo directed by a council, headed by & president.