The herald., 1893-12-21
THAT ENTAILED TILE.
GRANDFATHER'S HAT BOBS UP
IN PHILADELPHIA.
Ex-President Harrison the Guest of
John Wansmaker - He Makes
Address Capital
and labor.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.-Ex-President
Harrison arrived in the city this after
noon from New York and will remain
three days, the guest of ex.Postmaster
General Wanamaker.
The ex-president ws.s guest at din
ner given in his honor by Thomas May
Pierce at Bellevue this afternoon. In
the evening Mr.. Harrison delivered 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 it which
dealt with public questions. OF strikes
and labor agitation generally he said:
ut 10 q sad and dangerous fact that
capital and labor are organized to fight
each other; that the laboring man ia
taught to regard his employer as an an
tagonist, too often as an enemy, and
that the greedy or vexed and impatient
employer, restive OF what he regards un-
warranted interference with his busi-
ness, is sometimes too ready to-treat
workmen with u grievsnce as he would
treat jolting, unbalanced machine
throw it into the scrap pile. Like the
armed peace now maintained in Europe,
this system is costly and dangerous.
Every benevolent and thoughtful man
is anxious and distressed. l suppose
Just and perfect peace will not be estab-
lished until the kingdom OF the Elder
Brother is set up throughout the
world and the golden rule become 90 the
law OF human life. The right to acquire
t<~ hry
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 sur
roundings or the color of their skin,
without a chance to make their own
choice. 1t is q most wholesome and
saving fact that the working people of
the United States go generally reject the
teachings of anarchy. The workingman
is producer; the anarchist is a de-
stroyer, fellowship is impossible. How
shall the poor be helped by the de-
struction of other mems property or by
assassination or riots? When doors
are barred and the streets full of
tumult and mems hesrts full
of fear, is there any harvest for
toll? There is only ona good thing
about these evil times, and that lie good
will. They give men an opportunity to
show concern for each other. The roll
OF the largest brotherhood is being
called, and men ace with great wonder
how great the family is. How many
idle workmen now see it is not safe to
assume that employers interests and
theirs are wholly antagonistic, or that
one umbrella may not shelter both 4?
Is not the conclusion too clear to escape
the most sluggish understanding that
hard times tor the employer cannot be
good times for the employee? A brisk
and regular demand for the products OF
labor at good prices is the only safe
support OF the wage scale, as it is OF
dividends"
The president also spoke on the
subject of corporate trusts and monop-
olies, and of the epidemic of lynchings.
as calculated to propagate rather than
repress crime.
Tomorrow evening the ex.president's
reception at the Union League takes
place. Two thousand Invitations have
been sent out.