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partial famine, or from any cause, labor always relies upon and 
looks to capital for relief; and it is a just tribute to capital to say 
that on such occasions it is seldom applied to in vain. But the 
wonder is, considering that capital is but the result of labor, that 
labor should ever be humbled to ask for charity. 
WHY CAPITAL HAS THE ADVANTAGE. 
There are many causes which produce a conflict between labor 
and capita], and which give capital an advantage over labor, some 
of which it may be profitable to mention here. 
(1.) Capital is organized and labor is not. 
(2.) Somehow, capital in every country has been especially fa¬ 
vored by legislation. It is, in fact, protected and defended in a 
thousand ways, where labor finds no protection, no defender. 
By means of this special and partial legislation, small sums of 
money have been aggregated and concentrated under the manage¬ 
ment of one or a few men, for the accomplishment of a given 
object, and thus the power of capital is increased a thousand fold 
over unorganized and unprotected labor. By this and similar 
means, both in reference to small and large sums of money, capi¬ 
tal is not only favored by legislation, but labor is actually made 
all the while to increase and magnify the importance and influence 
of capital, and of those who have it. 
Capital, however, has one advantage over labor which is not de¬ 
rived from, nor is it aided especially by, legislation. That advan¬ 
tage is, that it works all the time. It never sleeps, never tires, 
while those who labor mtfst rest, must sleep. 
There are other reasons, but those we have mentioned are 
enough to show why labor and capital are always in conflict, and 
why capital always triumphs when it will. 
THE KEMEDY WITH THE PEOPLE. 
The remedy for all this has never yet been found in legislation ; 
and I am sure we need never look to legislation for the remedy; 
for there is nothing that capital so certainly controls as legislation. 
When we pass the ordinary routine of legislation for the preven¬ 
tion and punishment of crime, and to meet and regulate the ordi¬ 
nary municipal affairs of towns, counties and the like, the result 
