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New England arriving here in search of employment. Whilst omitting this distinction of race, the labor law has been restricted to Agricultural laborers - thus leaving the white laborers of the Cities outside of the provisions, and reaching only the few whites in the rural districts who are without influence.

Whatever laws may be enacted by the legislature of this or other Southern States on subjects of this kind, must be laws enacted by Capital to control labor which is unrepresented, and must be oppressive. No less so than were labor to legislate arbitrarily for the control of capital.

In other countries these two interests commingle. The laborer is to some extent a capitalist, but here they are distinct, and for Capital one may read White men, and for labor, black. The two classes are about equal in numbers, and equally necessary to each other. So long therefore as the one interest has exclusively the law-making power in its hands, a disinterested third party must intervene for the protection of the other. In other words the State cannot be permitted to resume its proper and legitimate functions