The morning call., 1893-12-21
WHERE THE REMEDY LIES.
Labor and Capital Have Identical
Interests.
TROUBLE FOLLOWS SEPARATION.
1t Is a Hopeful Sign of the Times
That AnarchistiC Teachings
Are Rejected.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 20.-Ex-Presideni
Harrison arrived in this city this after
noon from New York and will remain
three days, the guest of ex-POstmaster-
General Wanamaker.
Mr.. Harrison was a guest at dinner
given in his honor by Thomas May Pierce
at the Bellevue this afternoon. In the
evening the ex-President delivered an ad-
dress al 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 1t W hich dealt with pub
lie questions.
Of strikes and the labor agitation gen.
orally the ex- President said: ut Is a sad
and dangerous fact that capital and labor
are organized TO fight each other; that the
iaboring man is taught to regard his en-
plOyer as his antagonist, too often as his
enemy. and that the greedy or veXed and
impatient employer, resentful of what
be regards as unwarranted interference
with his business, is sometimes too ready
to treat the w0rkmen with a grieva ce
as he would treat jolting. unbalanced
machine-that is. throw 1t into the serS o
pile. Like the armed peace now MAIN
tained In Europe, this situation is costly
and dangerous. Every benevolent and
thoughtful man is anxious and distressed.
suppose just and perfect peace will not
be established until the kingdom of the
elder brother is set up throughout the
world and the golden rule becomes the
law of human life. The right to ac-
quire is more important TO the poor than
70 thar fak g.,
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 chance to
make their own choice. 1t is most whole
some and saving fact that the working peo-
pie of the United States so generally re-
ject anarchy's teachings. The workman is
a producer. the anarchist a DESTROYER.
and fellowship is impossible. How shall
the poor be helped by the destruction of
other mems property or by assassin alton
or riots? When the doors are barred and
the streets are 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 will.
They give men the 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 that 1t is not safe to assume that the
employers interest and theirs are wholly
antagonlstic, 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 the en-
ployer cannot be good times for the en-
ploye? a brisk and regular demand for
the products of labor al fair prices is the
only safe support of the wage scale as it is
of dividends"
The ex-President also spoke on the SUBJ
ject of corporate trusts and monopolies
and of the epidemic of lynchings as calcu-
lated to propagate rather than repress
crime.
Tomorrow evening the ex-President's s
reception at the Union League takes place.
Two thousand invitations have been sent
ont.