The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-09

alike; let cool heads and clean heart
rule today.
Unitarian.
Mr.. Utter at the theatre touched upo1
the great strike, in dealing with tn,
doctrine of the brotherhood of man.
A doubt was expressed as to whether
anybody really believes that all mer
should behave toward each other a:
brothers. Once tbs speaker addressing
a room full of street gamins in Sar
Francisco told them a story of poor
boy who left his native land and cams
; 10 this country to make his living anC
! send back money 10 his parents Tbs
(! boy sought work. endured many hard
ships and a last was doing washing as
the most profitable work he could find
One evening as he was carrying the
clean clothes t. his customers he was
( set upon BY some o1ner boys, the baska
/ upset, the clothes scattered and hims2i'
badly hurt by the stones thrown ii
him. The listeners We're interested AID
sympathetic till il came to Int; bG.
when they began to see that The poor
lad came from China. theS called GU;
Served him liEAt." "jet hila - h&ek
to mis- own country" and such o.ncs
words as Showed that they drew The
line IF BROTHERHOOD at tne CAin..man.
We are taught, whatever oar cAurch,
that the central thing in Christianity is
the brotherhood OF man. The0re ticaily
we accept the faith that we should love
our nejShbar as ourself and thar vino
ever has neod of our help is our neigh
hor. But if that needy individual hap
pens u be Chinanan or an Indian, a
Jew OF an African we draw the line
he ought not to have made himself
neighbor to us, let him go back 20 his
own country. This means that we only
partly believe in the brotherhood Of
man.
The idea of brotherhood has been Of
slow evolution. With primitive man
there was no brotherhood, no father
hood, only motherhood. There came the
family and the corner stone of society
and civilization was laid, and brother
hOOQ became q reality. Later the idea
was extended to the tribe, all the mem
bers of which were to each other 4
brother If one of the tribe was killed d
member of the tribe that did the killing
must be killed, not the slayer neces-
sariiy. but any brother of the tribe.
This semi barbaric idea of brotherhood
sasTns similar to that which obtains in
me mo3slm industrial union. If mem
Lers II the union in Chicago are
Wr0ngcd The injury seems to be felt in a
fa,E days across the mountains and
pains and vengeance is taken upon the
tribe OF oppressors in Sacramento and
san Francisco. This is brotherhood Of
an admirably intense quality if it is
brotherhood with = vengeance. Bat ii
* Brotherhood within narrow bounds, II
is nos brotherhood Of humanity.
we all sympa hiZe with the strikers,
and we ought to. for they are the ones
who have suffered and who will
suffer. MIR. Pullman can 60 off to
the seashore and pretend that he is
enjoying himself and has forgotten the
whole difficulty \ few of his cars
may be burned, the loss may even
reach half million; what of that? He
has millions more. Cur SympaJhies are
not for that kind Of a brother, but for
those VINO are needy, those upon whom
the real suffering falls. Some are
mourning their dead, many are hun
CRY and the curses are loud and deep
against the tyranJ who would not do
the right thing for his employees. But
the boycott as a remedy seems revert
ing to the ways Of barDarisn. If you
for any reason cannot reach the man
who injured you, make war upon the
whole tribe. The tribe in the present
instance seems to be the whole class
Of capitalists and all who sympathize
with them
But when we look into the creed of
this class. we find it to be that upon
which We all rely in al our financial
dealings with our fellow men. 1t be-
gins with The statement that q man
has a right 20 what he earns. Il pro-
Ceeds with the doctrine that q man has
a right TO What is given him and to
what he acquires in the way Of trade.
1t finishes with the declare ton that
a man has right to do what ne pleas
es with what is his own. According
Il, l.
lied world that have been made to sup
port it. suppose a man begins by earn
ing and ,aying by a few thousands of
dollars and then goes into trade. We
viii suppose he is fortunate and pre-
sentiy builds = factory of some kind.
This prospers till it is enlarged and
finally this DOOR man has become rich
ana is an employer Of many men. At
ter p while one Of his mills is no long
Pr profitable and he closes ii, throw
ing may people out Of employment.
Has he wr0nEed them? He has paid
them in full. Is ii his duty to run at
loss to keep them from want? The
creed of the world in financial mat
rers justifes the capitalist in a case
that really is as I nave stated this
ease But The working people nearly
always believe that The man VINO does
such thing as this is misrepresening
his business. and that ne is trying to
destroy some labor organization or
of that kind. Perhaps they
are right in some cases. Perhaps in
some cases the manufacturer is truth
'ul and in the right. Ought 7hare not
% be legally organized board Of ar
}itratjon to settle these labor disputes?
The suggestion s n1t new ana il is put
'orth madest.v, with NH appreciation
,f the pracucai difficulties hat are in
he way. But something better than
he bar5arir boycott ought to he with
p the reach of civilized men such as
re claim to be.