CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2374, 27 September 1887, Page 2

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.,—l have it up m the authority of a idler ill your paper that Mr Firth at a at Miitinirtfit stated that Isdsmr " like nut., a calf slicking a cov. No doubt Mr Firth was right in comparing the e nv t-. Capita! ami tbe calf t.> labour, hat, Mr lvjit..r, the* very ojipo-ite is als.. tnie, and tbat i- that La.snir is the gras- wbieb led fie; oCapital maki's the Labour, and L i'o *ur makes tbe Caidtal. and he who ■i.i’dd sacrifice Caj.ilal l*i Labour is an • nroc'ii-t, and would d.-tp.y the :..i;);datj..n which «.«i..|y i.-fs bait it i< iinh’v tr-a; that be who WnuM san ifice Lds.m 1,. t ipit.-.l c-a. ni'-n-t-r, and if ear-ri.-d .ait would end in tbe niany Lang fed upon skilly blue. and not enough ..f tbat. To- :ate .-f wages i- v-oing t" la* a burning •pH-ti-n, and we will hold tbat wages steend so lie tint a profit be left to the einp! IVU-. Tiiis i- rpn!.. err.-cf, for it is not 1-. be that 1*1113.1.-y-rs are t>. cany on at a ; bat. Sir, 1 v.id -b-uv volt tbat tiie very opposite of tbi- is tie.*, and tint it v.-,:ild berobbing tbe working man if Ibis iiiimapie was canied out. Tiie c.aj tradin Xeiv Zealand by and by will Is; a big indn-fiy. v. bat will v*-iy Jik.-ly happen; the coal itwners in their greed to nave a large trade will, by ronijietili..:j oi,lrun the demand, then; will be an over snjij.h* of co.il, pi ices will fall, and it i- to l*e supposed tbat tbe men ate to suffer for their employers greeti. N'otatall: it is tbe masters who should 'Offer. If the principle was cani-d out it would end in men •vorking i..r <;d per day ; if cofiiei saie earning ' o J«ir day, and the masters by iivenunilutti. 11 cannot afford to-five iiioiv tli.ni five fhiib jijj:.-*: Why, before a mouth th?}* xvuiiM n».t Kr nblc to than h.i)f-n-CTnv.n, in aiunhcr ui ’iith they m»t h*» aMc to Kivu uioni than f*J. Mr Kdit*.r, this i- the that in America thy traces of uvrhiuz ui“n arc filling. UJidcr tho liliualnr: ! ir-l'toniJ" that ]•! <>t *Cti *n £ivc<- It forci-' op a trade much irivat-;!' than U «' fhj-i 1:511.- the The vmpjoytT in hi- -du ?i d w.-y tri- - t icuicthisevil by jvduciii£ The wul wa*; brought mi by hisonn and ,rra-p----sn", tlr-' exb*n<h*d tiade by j toctmu, and tbe extended trade avliich

is nut required has lipcn the can-c <>f haring an < xt.-mied number of hands, which me aNo mt wanted, and the end i~ pandemonium. Mr Ivliiir, this is election day. I am not going I** vote. I canm-t vi-p. for an unfit man : it is not in me. Mr Editor, it is do. ’grading he.v men <h> chin ami chop round. A candidate ini professing wiiat wi uld la; a personal iajuiy to one, he is an unfit man as a member. i‘.y some finite, he happen. to prof.-.s -.vhat would l»e to y..i;r jNsrsoiiai lieuefit, he is a fit man. ’Mr Kditor, how can this lie --; The more baling <>r not Is-ing for measures for or against on- s personal benefit. lias nothing to do ’.villi political wisdom. Political nci.t :os«i y-veni--3H«»nt nr*’ a far ua.-re ana it U t- Ithat tlie lima uill c<*m“ that iia’u v/il] b-3 vn<e t<> kn<m* th.it thiK’livtit -ojiV *m*3 jn*!iuv t-«* in •: '>nt}Mri~*n t** the *-f j’>t ;ur3 is**ii»-t p»vein:m nt, whirh .-re a.- humhi*'! * - t »• i'fd jrr.tn;. that the day Mall * > <n c ane that *ie»ii‘>nacy ’.nil ‘•e.' that ihU U *«v -V.aiH. k?., IT l*V}» SejjtmnVa’r. ]*<7.