People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — Lincoln on Capital and Labor. [ARTICLE]

Lincoln on Capital and Labor.

[From President Abraham Lincoln’s message to the second session ‘of the Thirty-seventh congress to be found in the appendix to the Congressional Globe of the Thirty-seventh congress, second section, page 4:] Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the people. In my pi-esent position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism. It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point with its connections not so hackneyed as most others to which I ask a brief attention.

It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital, that nobody labors unless somebody else owning capital somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. * * * Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and -deserves much the higher consideration. *** No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost.

A horse kicked H. S. Shafer, of the Freemver House. Middleburg. N. Y. on the knee, which laid him up in bed and caused the knee joint to become stiff. A friend recommended him to use Cnamberlain's Pain Balm, which he did. and in two days was able to be around. Mr. Shafer has recommended it to many others and says it is excellent for any kind of a bruise or sprain. This same remedy is also iamous for its cures of rheumatism. For sale by F. B. Meyer, Druggist.

The Randall circus gave an exhibition in town last Thursday night to a large audience. Early Friday morning the employes sued their employers for their wages. The trial was before Esquire Sanders. An attachment was got out against the goods and they will be sold next Tuesday to satisfy the claims of the employes.—Lowell Tribune. All the talk in the world will not convince you so quickly as one trial of De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve for Scalds, Burns, Bruises, Skin Affections and Piles.

B. F. Ferguson is still selling, buying and trading in real estate. Four for a dollar, get us a club for the campaign