The oasis., 1894-08-16

treasury to be used Tn case or lndl- gence among its members, and for the ultimate support of indigent members in their age, Bismarck, the greatest statesman of this century, called in the heads of these organizations, and finding the purposes of their union to be legitimate, he made the empire of Germany party. They required that the workmen, their employers and the government should each contribute to fund to be controlled and disbursed by the government itself in the care of those who passed into age without the means of support and to guaran- tee them against pauperism. Thus the labor unions of Germany became health insurance and endowment as- sociations, performing for laboring men most benevolent function.
 Combine the English and the Ger man system with the addition of the right of action on the part of the labor corporations to compel the concession of fair wages, and capital and labor may hope to cooperate 'peaceably in the future. No man is lit to be trust ed with absolute and irresponsible power over the life or the fortune of another. Capital is not always direct ed by wisdom and benevolence: labor is not always directed by moderation and justice. At the foundation of all prosperity in every commonwealth lies the necessity for the harmonious re- lation between capital and labor, since it is by the joint effort that all wealth is created.
 The republic of the United States has mastered many problems of self government, and is equal to the task of placing legal remedies within the reach of labor on the one hand and capital on the other. So long as no legal remedy exists, each will attempt to redress its own grievances, and who- ever seeks a remedy for the wrongs imposed upon him outside of the law, assumes an attitude of lawlessness. The great essential Of the government is its power to afford peaceful and ju- dicial solution of fdisagreements among men, relating to the rights Of proper ty and the protection of persons.
 A mans wages is his property. A mans capital is equally his property. Thus capital and labor can have no dispute which may not be settled by the cool determination of judicial proceeding and the award of justice by final judg- ment. The measures herein outlined should be popular with the laboring classes. They are at least able to con- tend with capital. Labor suffers many wrongs before it appeals to anarchy. There can be little doubt but what exact justice was on the side of the Pullman employees. There is but lit- tie doubt but that the remedy the American Railway Union is attempt ing to apply is unwise and unjust. The human conscience is the court of last resort. The conception of justice arising out of the consciences of men crystallizes into those legal formali- ties designed to reach verdict sub- seryieht to justice in every case.
 It may therefore be safely conclud- ed that legal remedies for the dispute between capital and labor are within the realm of easy possibility. Out of every experience, wisdom should come. Every uprising has it's lesson, and the obvious lesson of the existing arrest of growth in the United States is that our civilization itself can be brought to state of arrest through the blind efforts of uninstructed men to main tain their natural rights on the one