The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-22


he made the, empire OF Germany a
party. They required that the work
men. their employers and the govern.
ment should each contribute to fund
to be controlled and disbursed by the
government itaelf in the care of those
who passed into age without the means
OF support and to guarantee them against
pauperism. Thus the labor unions of
Germany became health insurance and
endowment associations, performing for
laboring men q most benevolent func-
ton.
Combine the English and the German
system with the addition OF the right of
action on the part Of the labor corpora
tions to compel the concession OF fair
wages, and capital and labor may hope
to cooperate peacesbly in the future.
No man is fit to be trusted with absolute
and irresponsible power over the life or
the fortune of another. Capital is not
always directed by wisdom and benevo-
lence; labor is not always directed by
moderation and justice. At the founda-
ton of all prosperity in every common
wealth lies the necessity for harmonious
relation 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.govern-
ment. and lie equal to the task OF piac.
ing 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 it's
own grievances, and whoever sacks q
remedy for the wrongs imposed upon
him outside of the law, assumes an at
nf Ia xy!a n
tial of the government is its power to
afford peacsful and judicial solution OF
engagements among men, relating to
the rights Of property and the protection
of persons.
mans wages is his property. A
mans capital is equally his property.
Thus capital and labor can have no dis
putc which may not be settled by the
cool determination of judicial proceeding
and the award of justice by final judg-
mcnt. The measures herein outlined
should be popular with the laboring
classes. They are least able to contend
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 little doubt but that the
remedy the American Railway union is
attempting to apply is unwise and I'M
just. The human conscience lie the court
of last resort. The conceptions of Jus.
tice arising cut of the consciences OF
men crystallizss into government, into
law, and into those legal formalities de-
signed to reach verdict subservient to
justice in every case.
1t may therefore be safely concluded
that legal remedies tor the disputes be.
tween capital and labor are within the
realm of easy possibility. Out of every
! experience, wisdom should come. Every
uprising has its lesson, and the obvious
lesson of the existing arrest OF growth in
the United States ia that our civilization
itself can be brought to state OF arrest
through the blind efforts of uninstructed
men to maintain their natural rights on
the one hand snd the greed and rapacity
OF capital, which grows inotead of being
sstated by the scquirementsof wealth,
on the other. The idea which ia natural
to the human mind that each has a
right to use his own in accordance with
his own will is still prominent, and will
protest against the suggestion of judi.
cial interference. But the maxim of
,r"whers there is wrong, there 10 q
remedy" should be made true as to
the wrongs which capital seeks to i'm
pose upon labor, or labor upon capital.
That is not liberty which by it's exercise
interiors; with the exercise of a like
liberty in another. The employ ment of
labor on the one hand by capital, and
the consent to such employ ment on the
other by workipgmen, establishes re.
latlon so far reaching in its consequences
as to present broad and high held for
apt legislation in its regulation.
! Should these suggsstiona not meet
with your approval, should be pleased
to have the false factor or fallaoy pointed
out.
With sincere personal regards, l re.
main, yours very truly,
VIM. H. MILLS.