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Show LABOR left unrestricted and unrestrained unre-strained will produce and fix its own reward. Labor should have its reward. When labor fails to receive its just reward, confiscation has happened. When man is deprived of his property prop-erty without due process of law, the law says that is confiscation and will not be allowed. As labor is the work-Ingman's work-Ingman's property, and in most cases nil the property that he has, the only commodity which he has to sell it must therefore follow that It is as much the duty of the government to prevent the confiscation of labor s It is to prevent the confiscation of any other kind of property, asserts the Washington Star. The man who takes more than a reasonable profit on the day's labor of the workman commits a crime against good morals, and In such degree strikes a blow at the foundation of peaceful society. Suppose the laboring classes should demand and. undertake by force to compel the payment of a s:m for their services which all men would agree to be twice its value, what would happen hap-pen ? Immediately the cry would go up that anarchy was in the laud, and the strong arm of the government, civil and military, would lie called, out to prevent the confiscation of the money of the employer, and properly so---hut why? Because labor had demanded too much. Rut who is the anarchist when the laborer gets too little? It Is a poor rule that will not work both ways. |