The record-union., 1893-12-21
Ex-PREsIDENr HARRISON.
He Delivers an Address at a ColIeg
commandments.

lie delivers All AuuH6SS aG d NOl10RS
commandments.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.-EX-Presi-
dent Harrison arrived in this city this
afternoon from New York, and will re-
main three days as the guest Of ex-Post-
MASTER General Wanamaker. The ex-
President was guest at dinner given
in his honor by Thomas May Pierce at
Bellevue this afternoon.
In the evening the ex-President deliv-
cred an address at the commencement
exercises of the Pierce Business College
at the Academy 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.
OF strikes and labor agitation generally,
the eX-President said: ut is sad and
dangerous fact that capital and labor are
organized to fight each other; that the
laboring man is taught to regard his en-
ployer as an antagonist, too often as an
enemy, and that the greedy or vexed and
impatient employer, restful of what he
regards as unwarranted interference with
his business, is sometimes too ready to
treat workmen with grievance as ne
would treat a jolting, unbalanced ma
chine throw it into the scrap pile.
Like the armed peace now maintained
in Europe, this situation is costly and
dangerous. Every benevolent aud
thoughtful man is anxious and dis
tressed. I suppose just and perfect
neace will not be stablished until tho
kingdom of the elder brother is set up
throughout the world, and the golden
rule becomes the law of human life. The
right to acquire Is more important to the
poor than to the rich. Many reforms are
weakened by their exclusiveness. The
invitation is not wide enough. Men are
put on the other side because OF their
surroundings or the color of their skin,
without a chance TO make their own
choice. 1t is most wholesome and saw
ing fact that the working people Of the
United States so generally reject the
teachings Of anarchy. The workman Is
producer, the anarchist a destroyer
and fellowship is impossible. How shall
the poor be helped by the destruction Of
other mems property, or by assassina-
ton or riots? When doors are barred
and streets full OF tumult, and mems
hearts of fear, is there any harvest for
toll?
"There is only one good thing about
these evil times, and that is good viii.
They give men an opportunity to show
concern for each other. The roll Of tho
largest brotherhood is being called, and
men see with great wonder how great the
family is. How many idle Workmen
now see it is not safe to assume that the
emDloyers' interest and theirs are wholly
anfagonistic, or that one umbrella may
NOT Shelter both? Is not the conclusion
too clear to escape the most sluggish un-
derstanding that hard times for an en-
ployer cannot be good times for an en-
ploye? 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"
The ex-President also spoke on the
subject of corporate trusts and monopo-
lies and of the epidemic of lynchings as
calculated to propagate rather than to
repress crime.
Tomorrow evening the ex-Presidents
reception at the Union League takes place:
Two thousand invitations have been SEM
out.