Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-12-21
ANARCHY'S TEACHINGS
Rejected BY the Workmen
of America.
so SAYS GEN. HARRISON.
United Effort Should Be Made Toward
the Suppression Of Lynchings.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.-General Ben
jamin Harrison last evening delivered an
address at the commencement exercises of
the Pierce Business college in the Acad-
emy of Music. The address was In the
main confined to advice to young men,
but there were portions of IL which dealt
with public questions. He had this to say
Of strikes and labor agitation generally:
"It Is sad and dangerous fact that
capital and labor are organized to fight
each other; that the laboring man IL
thought to regard his employer as an an
tagonist-too often an enemy. and that
the greedy or vexed or impatient en-
ployer, resentful of what he regards as uu-
warranted interference with the business,
Il sometimes too ready to treat q work.
man with grievance as he would treat
o jolting, unbalanced machine, and throw
It into the scrap pile.
Light Out OF Darkness.
SIT Is q wholesome fact that the working
people Of the United States so generally
reject the teachings Of anarchy. The
workman n . producer; the anarchist Is
destroyer, and fellowship is impossible.
There IL one good thing about these evil
times and that Is good will. They give
men an opportunity to show their concern
for each other. The roll Of the largest
brotherhood Is being called, and men see
with great wonder how great the family Is.
"How many idle workmen now see that
Il Is not safe to assume that the employers
interest and theirs fs wholly antagonistic
or that one umbrella may not shelter
both. Is not the conclusion too clear to
escape the most sluggish understanding
that hard times for the employer cannot
be good times for the employer A brisk
and regular demand for the products Of
labor at fair prices is the only safe support
of the wage scale, as it Is of dividends"
In Need OF Restraint.
Concerning trusts Mr.. Harrison has this
to say: "They have been, perhaps, the
greatest factor in the rapid development
of the national wealth, they are indispen-
sable; but the magnitude and multitude
Of these corporate enterprises, the enor-
nous powers they possess and the often
elusive character of their ownership and
management suggest restraint, control
and limitation.
'The capital error I'm our legislation has
been the failure to limit and to supervise
cooperative 10 UnhC tne
stock shall represent an investment and
that the investment shall be adequate to
the enterprise, that creditors may be Sc
cured and that the public may not be
tolled or the laborers' wages cut to pay
interest or dividends on securities that
do not stand for investments. What is
done should be done with discrimination,
calmness and Justice"
Should Not he Tolerated.
The ex-prcsident condemns lynching In
tho following terms: These frightful
lynchings that the daily papers record,
with their shocking incidents Of cruelty,
shame our civilization. The victims are
the poor and weak, and the adequacy of
the courts to punish such has never been
impeached. 1t is not enough to silently or
even openly to condemn such crimes. We
must make the sentiment of disapproval
dominant, and boldly reinforce the Off
GERS of the law"
This evening the ex-president's recep-
tion at the Union league will take place.