Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-18
CONCENTRATIONS.
| Capital and Labor-A New Declara- tion of Rights Arbitratio n | as Remedy.

Capital and Labor-A New Declara-
 ton of Rights Needed-Arbitration n
 as Remedy.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
 Capital and labor are said to be antago nistic Is this fact to the extent claimedi I think not. They are both dependent upon each other and at the same time both have the same independence towards each other that the merchant and pur- chaser of his goods have, viz, to pay and get value received. And if one or the other thinks they do not get value received they each have the right to part company the one to employ another and the other to find another employer. Supply and demand regulate prices to be paid for labor or articles manufactured by labor. Ac- cording to the Declaration of Independence of 1776, said to have been written by Thomas Jefferson, "All men are created equal" This, of itself, is an absurdity- for no man or woman is the exact equal of another man or woman in all re- spects. One has superior gifts in one direction, while that same person shows great weaknesses and is in ferior to others in many things. l never saw 8 man buYcould claim to be superior to me in some one thing, while I could claim superiority to him in another thing. This variety of character makes the spice of lite. suppose the Declaration of 1nde' pendence intended to be understood to say that all men were free and equal under law, and good laws, to pursue life, liberty and happiness under law, being protected in these rights by the surety of exact jus
 tice being.meted out to each by any legal | tribunal, with no favoritism towards either party having case before any court oi law-that the law is no respecter of per
 son or persons except to do exact justice
 to any and all and protect the veal
 against the strong. This is the foundation
 of all our American liberties and Ameri
 can patriotism and citizenship.
 Intention this true and only construc
 tion of the phrase "that all men are ere
 ated equal" because it is so often misinter
 preted, especially by our fellow-citizens O
 foreign birth who have not been able b,
 the circumstances in which they have beeI
 placed to imbibe the true spirit of Amer
 ican liberty and of true American citizen
 ship. This government of these United
 States is founded upon the patriotism, in
 telligence and honesty of the people snt
 the rights of the property holders. be it il
 real estate or personal property or in brail
 or muscle-with equal rights for all to pur
 sue life, liberty and happiness under goo | opd U;o Ia atrict1y liyad mn fn in fhai
 tenor and spirit by every citizen an
 every inhsbitant of this country A combination of manufacturers to con
 trol the price of labor, or the combination
 of operatives to control the price of labo
 without equitable value received in eithe
 case, is obviously unlawful and not in sc cordance with ths spirit O our institutions : No manufacturer or combination of manu , lecturers has the right to say to any othe manufacturer not in the combination c trust, you shall not employ any man c set of men that it may be for his interes 3 or advantage to employ in the pursuit c of men or series of labor combinations an right to dictate to any manufacturer whoI
 he shall employ, or to employ only sue
 men as belong to his amalgamated associi l citation of lsborers, or to boycott h 8 business, or to employ walking delegate : to .injure or curtail the busine, - of any manufacturer, because he choose to employ men who, in the exercise ( @ their independent citizenship, have nt 0 elected to join some particular lsbc d union It is an infringement of priva rights and the Declaration of Right which the American people and the Anne
 ican constitution have proclaimed to u world that all have the right to pursr T life, liberty and happiness under tl l. laws of the land. No labor organizatio 7, has the right. and no member there, l. has the right, to abuse by word of mou, n or physical force any non-union man vi chooses, in the exercise of his sovereie # right as an independent citizen, to vol n for any manufacturer with whom he ms a agree to pay him for such labor pri that he deems an equivalent therefo Such treatment is evidently an illegal 8
 tempt to force such non-union man
 join a special union and to force son 'e special manufacturer to succumb to tl 7s dictates of said union. This Is evident