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Show LAItOIt left unrestricted and unrestrained unre-strained will produce and fix Its own reward. Labor should have Its reward. When labor falls to receive Its Just reward, confiscation has happened. When "man Is deprived of his prop-erty prop-erty without duo process of luw, the law says that Is confiscation and will not bo allowed. As tnbor Is tho work-lngman'8 work-lngman'8 property, and In most easet all tho property that ho has, tho only commodity which he has to sell It must therefore follow that It Is at much tho duty of tho government, to prevent tho confiscation ot labor i It Is to prevent tho confiscation of any other kind ot property, asserts tho Washington Star. Tho mnn who tnkes moro than a reasonable profit on tho day's labor of (ho workpiau commits s crime against good morals, and In such degree strikes a blow at the foundation of peaceful society. Suppose the laboring classes should demand nnd undertnko by force to compel the payment of u sum for their services which all men would agree to bi twice Its value, what would happen Immediately the cry would go up that anarchy was In tho land, nnd tho strong ann ot the government, civil und military, would bo called out to prevent the confiscation ot the money of tho employer, and properly so but why? Ilecnuso labor had demanded too much. But who Is tho anarchist when tho laborer gets too little? It Is a poor rule that will not work both ways. |
