Show But declaring and elieving him to be a wretch does not excuse Cyrus Field for erectmg the monument What did Major Andre do that die should be hon i owed in America by an American It is doubtless true that he was a brave and talented young officer but his bravery and talent were employed I in a manner to invite the hatred rather than the respect of Americans The j enemies of America and not its friends could consistently mourn the fate of I Andre and do honor to his memory To praise the man and his deeds is I equivalent to condemning the cause which gave us the republic and to pronouncing pro-nouncing censure upon the order which said that Andre having done that which deserved death as the punishment punish-ment his life must be taken Mr Fields affection for the memory of a man whose failure in an undertaking established and saved the nation does that gentleman no credit it is a reflection reflec-tion on his Americanism and shows the existence of a too high regard for that too prevalent sentiment represented repre-sented by the phase Its English you know It was discreditable to Mr Field that he erected the monument and it was contemptible that anybody felt so much aggrieved by it that he had to deg molish the pile J IDEAS FOR W KINGiE Y Every workingman in the country shouldread a paper in the November number of The Century by Dr Lyman Abbott If they would read and heed the article it would be hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in their pockets every year The doctor takes ground opposed to labor unions not as to their ostensible purpose but as to their management and operations not as to their legitimate use but their actual abuse He onnoses them wherein they command strikes but would favor them if they could be made to help the workingman He clearly shows that the strike is in most instances the evis deuce of lack of intelligence in that it is an injury to the working classes that it does not and cannot accomplish what it is intended to Capital is the more powerful and can resist longer than labor bukif it were otherwise and the strike should succeed thestrikers would still bathe losers of all they would have earned and saved had they not gone out to fight In striking the workingman accepts great risks and involves himself in foolish expenditure But thepoint which Dr Abbott makes most clearly is that what are called labor S organizations are in reality antilabor organizations Instead of combining to work the men combine not to work or to strike i and instead of applying the machinery their organizations to the furtherance of their interests as laborers labor-ers they apply it to help idlers Says Dr i Abbott hIll one summers telegraphic i strike you pent 400000 for the right to I be idle Why did you not expend it for the right to be independent Half a million dollars plus all the best telegraphic tele-graphic talent in the United States with the sympathies of the nation as a reserve combined to establish postal telegraphy might have given you success suc-cess instead of failure Strike not for I better wages in Servitude but for independence inde-pendence Organize not to be idle but I to be busy tIt I t-It is a fact proven by the history of ninetynine of every hundred strikes that strikes rarely even pay the strikers even when the object for which they were inaugurated attained which latter lat-ter is seldom the case In the very large majority of cases the striker is compelled by his necessities to yield to the superior resources of capital Asa As-a Matter of fact the revolt among working I work-ing men amounts to nothing more than paying a heavy tax for the privilege of i i being idle Thus the man who is receiving re-ceiving 250 a day and strikes for S3 i does > not get the extra 50 cel ts but he i pays 250 for the fan of rlnin Tinfhinf = 0 j J f a petition signed by the employers of any business concern fails to receive I the increase of privileges or wages desired de-sired it is as a rule hopeless to try to I bully the employer into yielding and an atempt to injure him only hardens hid heart and induces him to hold out as long as possible partly for his own protection and partly to punish tho e i who defy him I I Dr Abbott advises laborers to organize organ-ize not to be jdle but to be busyV ami that should bs the creed of working J t I men Their labor is their capii i tai and if they will but enfpiin I I it intelligently they will be Lt i i capitalists of the countryslf the telegraph tele-graph operators had expended the half 1i 1I 1 I I million that they lost in a foolish fight i against a monopoly for their own benefit bene-fit they would have made themselves independent of the Western Union It is Dr Abbotts idea that the capitalist capi-talist class can be abolished by the working class not by violence and resistance re-sistance but by rivalry Let the workingmen work-ingmen of this country form associations associa-tions backed up by the capital wasted in strikesfor the purpose of conducting conduct-ing the various great enterprises now controlled by capitalists Let the vast profits accruing from these enterprises be more fairly apportioned among those who earn them Thus the end and aim of all the workingmans efforts will be realized without bloodshed without even resistance It will be done by honest and fair rivalry Every man is entitled to the products of his own laborthat is a broad and righteous creed and there is a way of living up to it Combine your capital with your industry in-dustry and add to it by your credit and so become your own masters r |