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LABOK AND “CAPITALISM.*'The leading editorial of the Labor Standard this week is headed “Facts to be considered,” from which we take the following extracts that are worthy of remembrance and reiteration;“It is a third fact that as as late as twenty and fifteen years ago, nay, a few years ago, our tribunes, pulpits, newspapers and party conventions resounded with the enthusiastic praise of labor and laborers; that the great success of the Northern States as against the Southern was triumphantly attributed to the intelligence, independence and moral worth of the indomitable yeoman spirit of Northern workmen as compared to the slaves of the South. Our national power, our economical resources, our democratic self-government were demonstrated to be founded in the human dignity and equal social position of the workers, the producers of all wealth and virtue. And now ?— French Canadians, Chinese, Coolies, utterly oppressed negroes, imported Italians and Poles—all without any education, without any American pride of manhood,—are being praised as the best laborers, as the veritableblessing to our varied and growingindustry, as the corner-stones to our national wealth. The old melody
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Minneapolis Free Flag
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Thu, Jun 21, 1877
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