Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-24


be attended with advantages" Why
may not the American people and all
other civilized nations join in this move
ment and unite in calling an information
al congress of the most renowned nub-
licist of the world to frame the neces-
sary rules for the organization and nro-
cedure of boards of arbitration to settle
quarrels and disputes between sovereign
States.
we ind, too, another suspicious move
ment in the same direction in the resolu-
lions of the Industrial Congress, in SEES
sion In Ohio, following as it does direct
ly after the official declaration of the
English government, where they lay
down as the rule for trades unions and
workingmen's organizations, to refer all
differences which may arise between
capital and labor to arbitration, instead
OF resorting to strikes, or attempts at
constraint by either party. 1t would be
a happy day for the people of the world
If rulers would cease to reconcile disputes
by killing each others subjects, and if,
at the same time, capital and labor
should settle all differences by arbitra-
ment, instead of by strikes, starvation
of laborers or a paralysing of the indus
try and enterprise of skilled labor. We
have often considered the intolerable
costliness of the usual expedients adopt
ed by workingmen to obtain reasonable
hours of labor and living pay for their
skill. 1t has been clumsy and unsatis-
factory method, doing more harm than
good, and engendering ill-feelings be-
tween employers and employees, that has
ever rendered their relations hostile and
unsatisfactory. An adherence to these
resolutions and the establishment of
friendly arbitration in place of strikes
and the other machinery of the trades
union, would establish harmony and
right the wrongs that both parties COM
plain of, incite industry, and promote
enterprise.
And still there is another field where
the intervention of the friendly arbi
traitor would bind up the broken heart
and save much animosity and money
and that is in adjusting the business re
lations of individuals. Courts of law
are costly, dilatory and oppressive lux
uries, which enlightened men ought no
to indulge in. If when rights are inva
ded, and disputes arise which parties can
not adjust for themselves, they woult
submit their respective claims to SOM
friendly mediator in which both hat
confidence, they would have them ad
iusteG before they could hardly com
mcnce suit at law, without the har
rowing experience of preparing and try
ing a case in court, and without tith
of the expense of full legal proceedings
Usually no better justice can be obtained
by litigation through all the courts
with its attendant forms, its appeals
trial ly Jury, exceptions and writs or Ell
ror, than would be obtained by simpl
submission to some practical neighbor
who had strong sense of justice with
out technical learning and discriminatin
nonsense. We favor the trial by arb
tration when possible, for nations, 70
communities and for men, and after til
last cannon shall he sounded Oh blood
fields, and nations do battle no longer
we shall expect to see the Ohio resOlU
tons adopted, capital and labor worhin
in harmony for the general good, an
then We hope all men will be so enligh
ened that law courts will find their OF
cupatiou gone, and the great remedy b
amicable arbitration fully cnthroned
the favor of all men.