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Labor vs. Capital

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 15.

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Labor vs. Capital.

By Uriah Smith

Among the irrepressible conflicts of the day, that between labor and capital holds an important place. The numerous strikes, and the formation of combinations and secret organizations, among the working people, show the progress of the agitation, and foretoken a conflict of no small magnitude in the future. A writer in the Sabbath Recorder, of Dec. 4, 1873, thus speaks of it:—
“The non-producing class, or the ‘drones’ in the hive, are shielded by the arm of the law while appropriating the honey, and the workers are driven out to starve. God hasten the time when the hand-toilers and brain-toilers shall rise in their majesty, and purge our legislative halls, and set their feet upon that kind of law-making which ‘makes the rich richer and the poor poorer,’”
More of a revolution may be involved in this change, than the writer is aware. Nevertheless we look for it soon to come. The spirit of Communism is taking possession of large masses of the lower people, and the Internationals are growing arrogant in their demands and bold in their threats.
U. S.