The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-21
HARRISON ON LABOR.
The Hard Times Teach Us That
We Are ALI Brothers.
FOLLY OF THE ANARCHISTS.
The Workman Caanot Prosper Unless
His Employer Does Alse-Ths Ex-
President In Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. ec.-Ex-Presiden,
Harrison arrived from New York today.
and will remain three days. the guest oil
ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker. The
ex-president was the chief guest at dinner
given in his honor by Thomas May Pierce
at the Hotel Bellevue this afternoon. In
the evening the ex-president delivered an
address At the commencement exercises OF
Pierce Business college at the Academy OF
Music. The address was in the main con-
fined 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:
at is sad and dangerous fact that cap
ital and labor are organized TO fight each
other; that the iaboring man Is taught TO
regard his employer as an antagonist, too
often as an enemy, and that the greedy or
vexed and impatient employer, resentful
of what be regards as an unwarranted in
reference with his business, is sometimes
too ready TO treat his worknen with q
grievance as he would treat joiting unbal-
anced machine and throw it into the scrap
Pile. Like the armed peace now main
tanned in Europe, this situation 10 costly
and dangerous.
Every benevolent aud thoughtful man
i u
just and perfect peace will not be essab-
Lshed until the kingdom of the Elder
Brother is set M throughout the world
and the Golden Rule becomes the Law Of
human life. The right 10 acquire Is moro
important TO the poor man than TO the
rich. Many reforms are weakened by their
exclusiveness. The invitation is not wide
enough. Men are put on the other aide
because of their surroundings or the color
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their own choice. 1: is a most wholesome
and saving fact that the working people of
the United States so generally reject the
teachings of anarchy. The workman Is a
producer. the anarchist O destroyer, and
fellowship is impossible. How shall the
poor be helped By the destruction of other
mems property, or by assassination CT
riots7 When doors are barred and streets
full of tumult and hearts full OF fear, is
there any harvest for tolls
There is only one good thing about these
evil times, and that IS good will. They
give men an opportunity to show 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 il not
safe to assume that their employers in
terest and theirs are wholly antagonistic,
or that one umbrella NAV not shelter
both? Is not the conclusion too clear 20
escape the most sluggish understanding
that hard times for the mployer cann lbe
good times for the employer A bsiskvIhd
regular demand for the products of labor
at fair prices is the onlv safe support of
the wage scale. as IL is OF dividends"
The ex-president also spoke on the sub
jeet of corporate trusts and naonopoIies
and of the epidemic of lrnehings. as call
cuiated to propagate rather than repress
crime. Tomorrow evening the ex-presi-
dents reception at the Union League
Club takes place. Two thousand invita-
tions have been sent out.