The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-02
SOCIAL ADJUSTMENTS.
MEETING OF THE EDNA SOCIETY
AT THE UNIVERSITY.
BY Miss Babcocl's Junior
Physical Culture CIass-air. Solo
mons Observation-Disclosures Chap
in's Lecture.

The Edna society held its last meet
ing for the scholastic year IN the art
room of the University last evening.
Miss Hattie Badger presided, and the
students contributed a portion OF the
programme. Vocal solos by Miss Chris
sic Lawson and Mr.. "A. F. Young, a
piano solo by Miss Geneva Ellerbeck,
and a recitation by Miss Belle Brandon,
all received merited applause
Professor Mathews made half hour
address to which he gave the title OF
"Jank." The address was entertaining
and profitable especially to the youth
full portion of his large audience. II
was in the main plea TO tne yours as
to have an object in life and 70 let
that object be helpfulness to their as
sociates and to the world.
F. j. Cannon was then introduced
and announced that in the snort time
allotted he would touch upon some OF
the principles involved in the LABOR
question, which was the greatest Issue
of the time. The labor questlon -
shall society furnish labor for moi
viduals, or shall individuals by their
own efforts furnish opportunities Tor
labor?" Labor has always been, ana
always will be, sacred. IL every
divine command but "thou shalt labor
were stricken out of past and future
ethical codes, that would tend TO pro-
gress and righteousness. we are 100
apt in these times of trial to remember
facts to the exclusion of principles.
Work is a a.vinely imposed duty ana
/ the penalty for neglect OF that duty is
suffering. This is an infiexible law.
Theorists say of the labor question
! that it depends upon the other law OF
supply and demand. The speaker ola
not agree with them. Thousands are
now in want of what idle thousands
can supply.
While in England recently he had noted
some facts and conditions which gave
food for serious reflection. For in
Stance, he had visited great schools
where young men and women were de-
voting their youth and sacr1hclng the
pleasures of the hour to gaining the
knowledge of crafts. On the streets
were thousands begging for means OF
subsistence and those thousands had a
practical knowledge of those crafts.
The manager of a great iron foundry
which had employed 5000 laborers, IN
formed him that the business mad
grown so lucrative that it was no long
er necessary to operate the Worhs;
Considering the labor agitations, 1t had
been decided to close down the works,
and employ accountants and cashiers
Ito look after the dividends accrulng
from the investments of the profits.
Capital and labor are often WronS
in the stand taken, and capital is Oft
ener wrong than labor. Capital is the
engine but labor is the fuel. The rela-
ton of capital to labor is that of
strength debating terms, if not to
weakness, to lesser strength. The rela-
ton of labor TO capital is that of one
cropping in the dark and who fails to
understand or grasp the vantage
ground that may be gained. Single Ia
Dor is as weak in it's opposition to or
ganized capital as is a hare in the grasp
iof bowling wolves. Labor organizes
to meet the strength Of organized cap
Iital. Labor organizations are decried
because they sometimes use wrong
methods, as for instance one organ1za-
ton strikes, when another does, and
lintimidated by them. 1t is just ground
for condemnation, but no more so than
certain measures adopted by organized
capital. =,
The question whether the nation shall
furnish labor for the unemployed was
answered by an experiment in France
that ended in failure. In the judge
ment of the speaker, the problem would
be solved by wise cooperation and
profit sharing, or by individual efforts
that would result in wise division and
great diversification of labor. DIVERSE
flea ton of labor is the measure of civil
/ cation.