694 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



laboring people realize this point, and act intelligently, 

 they must expect to see themselves lied about and abused. " 

 The persistency with which many of our agricultural 

 and religious papers refuse to expose and denounce the 

 numerous frauds and vicious systems which exist to the 

 great detriment of the masses of the people, lead us to ask : 

 Can it be possible that the influence indicated in the Buell 

 bank circular has successfully been brought to bear upon 

 them? Not only have some of these papers rendered 

 themselves conspicuous for their silence in this particular, 

 but, in many instances, have aided the subsidized political 

 press in disseminating theories, and upholding practices 

 that are at variance with the best interests of that class of 

 persons which they claim to represent. In support of this 

 declaration we quote the following from the Farming 

 World, of Chicago, Ills. : 



CAPITAL AND LABOR. 



i( The fallacy which is common to almost all labor 

 organizations, and which the leaders and ' walking dele- 

 gates' of these organizations generally do their utmost to 

 propagate among workingmen, and that, too, for selfish 

 purposes, consists in the assumption that there is a real 

 conflict between the two classes represented by the terms 

 'capital and labor.' The term 'capital' means those who 

 have an accumulated capital, and are engaged in some form 

 of business that makes it necessary for them to become the 

 employers of others, paying them wages for their labor. 

 The term 'labor' means those who, not having capital 

 which they can invest in any branch of business, have 

 nothing to sell but their labor, and support themselves and 

 their families out of the wages paid them by their employ- 

 ers. The one class want and need to buy labor, and the 

 other class just as much want and need to sell labor. Both 



