Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Labor Needs Only Fair Play. [ARTICLE]

Labor Needs Only Fair Play.

Labor in the United States, as in every other country, has been plundered and humiliated by an abuse of the taxing function. Workingmen need no more laws to protect them in their rights; no more legislation intended to compel a generous division of the money extorted from consumers. All that they need and should demand is the immediate and unconditional repeal of the laws which support and make their robbery possible. It is high time that members of labor rid their minds of the protection superstition that the distribution of wealth among its producers can be regulated by statutory law. Wealth would flow in •abundance and in equitable measure to each of its makers, whether earned by haDd or brain, if the taxing power of government were not prostituted for selfish epds. The law of the distribution of products is a natural one and, when unimpeded by stupid legislation, will do' its work perfectly and beneficently. Acts of Congress in such a case are as impertinent and mischievous as they would be directed at the regulation of a person’s digestion. It is this broad principle of individual sovereignty—a principle that is cardinal in America’s constitution and in Democratic faith—that members of labor unions must comprehend and be guided by if they would conquer their oppressors and establish justice in the land.—Chicago Herald. »