Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1890 — Labor in the North and South. [ARTICLE]

Labor in the North and South.

Chicago Inter Ocean. In the North we yearly receive tens of thousands of immigrants quite as ignorant and quite as poor as the ordinary field hand of the South. We do justice to them; neither more nor less than this; and their children, for .the most part, become good and> useful citizens, They would not, however, if we tried to “make the best and most contented in the world” of them. We try to create a noble discontent in them, a desire to own a home instead of renting one, a desire to understand the laws and politics of their new country, and to obey the one and to vote freely upon the other, a desire to put money in bank, a desire to rise above their present condition. This is why the North outgrows the South. It does not believe in the hereditary servitude of any man or any race, The South must put the baton in the.knapsack of every private of the army of labor before it can prosper as it ought.