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operative improves with the increase of industrial capital, which 

 always befriends labor, when it multiplies the opportunities 

 of education and profitable employment. Nothing helps the 

 laborer more than that education which gives him both the 

 desire and the power to better his condition, to improve first 

 himself and then his home and household. 



As a precaution against the communistic tendencies which 

 now agitate and alarm Germany and other portions of Europe, 

 and find here their fiercest advocates among the refugees thence 

 escaped to our shores, the general principles underlying this 

 subject should be studied by our teachers and presented in oral 

 lessons in our schools. A few simple school talks on this 

 theme might forestall much mischief in coming years. The 

 intelligent workmen who by industry and economy are enabled 

 to own their homes, however humble, or indeed to own any- 

 thing, cannot be fooled by that insane crusade against capital, 

 which really means wages without work, or which lets the lazy 

 and profligate share equally with the industrious and frugal. 

 The equality of conditions of which they dream, would be the 

 low level of a common barbarism. Even enforced equality of 

 wages lessens the motives to industry, skill and fidelity, and 

 restrains the freedom of competition. Once applied, these 

 notions would destroy not only capital but the motives and 

 means of its future increase and protection. Destroy capital, 

 and labor would suffer first and most. Capital and labor, there- 

 fore, are not enemies. It is only ignorance and prejudice that 

 find any necessary opposition between the two. There should 

 be kindness and sympathy between the employer and the 

 employed. There need be no alienation between the rich and 

 the poor. There should be no tyranny of capital over labor, 

 nor hostility of labor to capital. The capitalist should fully 

 understand the trials of the laborer's lot, and strive to amelio- 

 rate his condition, and the operative should know the risks, 

 anxieties and conditions of success on the part of the manufac- 

 turer. There should be liberal pay on the one side, and fair 

 profits on the other. The interests of both classes are bound 

 together. If either one is harmed, the other must ultimately 

 suffer. Certainly the laborer cannot long suffer in health, edu- 

 cation or pay, without harm to the employer, and large losses 



