Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — Wise Words of Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

Wise Words of Lincoln.

There is no landing place on the stairway from labor up to capital. There are no bolted doors along the aseent. ' Tt is treason to make ouFan irrepressible conflict between thein. The fact was never better put than byMr. Lincoln in his first annual message: “There is no such relation,” he said, “between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a freß man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both theso assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Many independent men everywhere in these States a few years back in their lives were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages for a while, saves a surplus, with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account for another while, and at length hires another new beg nner to help him. - This is the just and generous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, aud consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.”— Old ago Advance.