The National tribune., 1883-09-27


be now attending soldiers Reunion when
a soldiers wrongs in his own Office are wait
ing to be redressed.
The New Emancipation.
Warmer and more heartsome even than
they had anticipated was the welcome which
Sheridan's Veterans received last week at the
hands and hearths of the people of the Valley
of the trooper across its fertile soil; and the
account of their pilgrimage, which we pub
lish on another page of this issue, constitutes
a record of social festivities and merry-mall-
ings such as has seldom been witnessed in
any age or country. For a faithful and,
indeed, a really charming narrative of
the scenes and incidents that marked the
various stages of this sentimental journey,
we may refer our readers to the report
itself, but we cannot pass thus lightly by
the profoundly patriotic and truly demo
cratic address pronounced by Colonel
Carroll D. Wright in the presence of the
citizens of Winchester and their Northern
guests. 1t was not cenciliatory address"
as the phrase is,-for well the orator knew
that Northern and Southern hearts were at
that moment beating in unison again, and
Northern and Southern hands busily en-
gagged in weaving together the fabric of a
common prosperity,-bnt it was an appeal
from the dim and dinIming issues of the
war to the real, vital issues OF the present
and the future-to that great problem, conf
pretending all human happiness, the recon-
ciliation of capital and labor. This, as he
so well said, is the pressing subject of ma
tional concern, question that more than
any within the ken. of existing political par
ties touches the welfare of the individual
and the State,-and Colonel Wright voiced
the sentiments of every sincere lover of his
country when he advocated with such con-
vincing eloquence the just division of the
earnings of labor and capital and the super
sedure of the present wage system with q
measure of the value of labor more in ac-
cordance with the requirements of equity
and justice. 1t was with good reason, too,
that he declared that towards some more
equitable division of the profits of this en-
| foraesi ,,art,,arShin nf canifal and Iahor tb..
| best sentiment of the age was already in
| clining, and, indeed, we have at hand at this
very moment, in the testimony of MIR George
Storm, the great New York tobacco factor,
before the Senate Committee on Education
and Labor on Saturday last, fresh proof OF the
sageness of his conclusion. Mr.. Storm testi-
| fed before the committee that although his
frm employed 1,320 men and $50 women,
every difference that had arisen between
| them from time TO time had been settled to
tration,-au interests being represented in
the membership of the board and the con-
| GiOti4HS NVbS pS4AisS5 Gtds Oi q u0ul1di
and that he himself had frequently voted
with his men in favor of granting their de-
mands when they were presented to the
board; and he also gave it as bis opinion that
if the present discomfort among the laborine
classes was to be alIayed, capital must make
concessions to labor; was too much
legislation in the interest of eapital
This, indeed, is a question of profound
interest and concern to every American citi
zea, for upon it may hang the perpetuity o
cur Republican institutions as well as th,
temporal prosperity Of the people, and Colone
Wright did well TO make it the theme of hi
address. Now that the recollections of tn,
war have lost their bitterness and only th,
valor of the participants is treasured up, i
should be the business of statesmen to seel
out and develop new means of lettering til,
conditions of life and promoting the happi
ness Of this united people.
,
THE Treasurer of the Military Order o
the Loyal Legion of the United States i