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| ress and development will take place
under favorable circumstances. The diff
| ficulty to be overcome is the persever-
ance in rightful and progressive dlrec-
! tlOn under unfavorable conditions.
Now, while on the one hand, it is the en-
/ ploye'S right, nay more, he owes 1t as
! duty to himself and to his fellow-work-
! men TO organize and to remain organized;
while it is the employees right, nay more,
| he owes it as a duty to himself and TO his
| fellow-workmen to fight for the cause of
| labor, righteously; yet, on the other
! hand it is not his right as an honest man,
| TO let his work deteriOrate in quality or
| in quantity because he may temporarily
! labor under untavorable conditions, or
because there is not existing harmoni-
Gus relation between him and his en-
! plOyer.
! However, harmony can be consistently
restored. Chief among the factors that
! can produce concord between capital and
labor is arbitration; and those whose
efforts IN this direction tend towards har-
mOnious settlement of difficulties, do
most toward n realization of state of
/ equity among men.
This opinion is supported by the con-
currence of some men most lifted to adj
wise. Professor j. B. Clark, OF Smiths
! College, northampton, Mass, says: Ar
! bitlation is i'll itself an appeal to equity"
John Jarret, Secretary OF the American
| Tinned-Plate Association, says: Il know
Of no better remedy in the adjustment
Of all differences that may arise between
employer and employe than arbitration
| and cOncilation."
Professor +. j. James, of the University
Of Pennsylvania, says: Arbitration has
! the great advantage Of subiecting the
acts Of the parties to it. TO the efficient and
powerful control OF public opinion. 1t
| recognizes Indirectly what is too often lost
| sight Ot-that the interests at stake are
not only those ofthe laborer and employer,
| but also those Of the community at large.
The community has such Il great stake III
the contest that it cannot afford to stand
| idly by and permit the others TO disturb
society TO its foundations and destroy in
| their struggle the very conditions of
| economic progress" We have glanced
at the state OF labor in the past; we see
that in the present, organization, cooper
! alton and arbitratiOn; a recognition of
mutual rights and duties; an under
standing that is to the interest Of the en-
| plOyer to be humane and equitable to the
! emplOye; that il is to the interest of the
employe to be faithful and honorable to
the employer, may bring about state
| approaching equity"
The future OF labor is brighter now than
! it ever has been. The employer has seen
! that not only is it unjust, but that it does
! ilOl pay 10 WIluIOltt an GQulIaDl0 recon-
! penSe for labor. And there will be more
and more progress in this direction, until
we meet that ideal of human relations on
| which the sympathetic imagination
| loves to dwell. We are progressing to-
wards something better than our present
condition. There will be no miracle
wrought, nor will the cure be sudden,
yet we are hopeful. We look forward to
! better and brighter days for all mankind.
| The good and the wise Ofail nations point
to future in which social difficulties will
| be settled, land out ofthe present discord the
divine harmony will be produced. No
scheme has so far been successful in it's
entirety, but to deny that one will be
framed, is to say that progress is impossi-
| bic. An ideal condition will yet be
found. 1t may take ages of patient work
and waiting for its ultimate realiza-
ton, but what has already been done
is an earnest Of what will yet be attained
! There are whole nations who to-day live
/ in self-impOSed obScurity, and in a meas
ure degraded, but whose hopes and aims
hinge around millennium as the earth
| turns around it's axis. There has so far
| been no Utopia according with our pres
ent mode of life, which, if put into exc
cutiOn, would Immediately right itself
| and fit present conditions But the ideal
progress must have time and opportunity
for development. Inspired with this be-
lief and guided by men not soured by the
| failure OF their schemes, nor by those i'm
| patient of success, but by men willing to
! labor and to wait, willing to show fuller
love for others and less self-love, by men
who recognize that the happiness Of all
alike is to be secured by common effort
with such men abroad righteously
championing the cause of labor.
! there is little doubt of a rapid
! progress toward the time when life
shall become a joyous existence, undis-
| turbed by cares for the morrow, or over
| shadowed by any dark prospects of con-
/ tingencies looming in the future; when
! all shall be contentedness and security.
! when all labor shall be easy and receive a
! just compensation, and rest shall not
weary, for the hours of labor shall be few
and the hours of leisure spent in rational
enjoyment; when simple life and full
| supply of the good things Of earth, purity
OF morals and harmony in religion, shall
promote solid content and intellectual
/ enjoyment, cheerful security and un-
| broken peace. Then shall the swords be
beaten into plowshares and the spears
! shall be hammered into pruning hooks:
then shall there be nothing hurtful or de-
structive in social life, and the world will
| be full of happiness and peace as the
waters cover the sea, for the mouth OF God
! hath spoken this.