CARLYLE ON CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 354, 9 May 1874, Page 3

CARLYLE ON CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Mr. Carlyle has lately written an eminently characteristic letter to Sir Joseph Whitworth on the modern industrial tone. After a few words of compliment to Sir Joseph, as one of the greatest captains of industry in England, Mr. Carlyle continues: — ''The look- ont in England is to me at this moment abundantly ominous, Two things are pretty sure to me. The first is that capital and labour never can or will agree together till they first of all decide on doing their work faithfully throughout, and like men of conscience and honour, whose highest aim is to behave like faithful citizens of this universe, and obey the commandment of Almighty God who made them. The second is, that a sadder object even than that of a- coal strike, or any conceivable strike, is the fact that, loosely speaking we may say that all England has decided that the profitablist way is to do its work ill, slimly, swiftly, and medaciously. What a contrast between now and, say, only lOOyearsago. Atthelatterdate, or, stillmore conspiciously, for ages before it, all England awoke to its work with an invocation to the Eternal Maker to bless them in their day's labour, and help them to do it well. Now all England — shopkeepers, workmen, all manner of competing labourers — awaken as it were an unspoken but heartfelt prayer to Beelzebub, ' Oh help us, though great lord of shoddy, adulteration, and malfeisance, to do our work with the maximum of slimness, swiftness, profit and mendacity, for the Devil's sake. Amen.' "' A rough way of administering a rebuke, but a rebuke itself admitting of a wider application than to England only.

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