The record-union., 1897-07-20

full confidence not only of business
men, but of the best and most patriotic
classes.
THE SETTLEMENT OF STRIKES.
Los Angeles Times: Secretary John
Sherman says, wisely, that politics does
not enter into strikes, and that the diff
ferences which arise between employers
and those in their service must be ad-
justed in their own way, without outside
suggestion or interference. He thinks,
therefore, that any general plan of arbi-
tration for the adjudication of labor
troubles, as proposed by pending Con-
gressional legislation, would not be ac-
ceptable to either of the parties, or could
be made effective in practical applica-
ton.
AS the Secretary puts it, 1.-The theory
is good but the execution of it would
be difficult If not impossible. Arbi-
ira ton provided by law would be on
the same principle as leading a horse
to water-the water can be provided,
and the animal taken to it, but he can
not be comeDlled to drink
Government can neither make a dol
lar out of As cents worth of silver nor
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make a pint equal to a quart nor a yard
equal to a rod. 1t cannot make arbitra-
ton compulsory, because the moment it
becomes compulsory it is no longer arbi-
tration. Arbitration means the mutual
agreement of two parties to leave their
differences to a third party, who shall
be the court of last resort, so far as the
particular problem in hand is concerned,
and the Government cannot come be-
tween the disputants and force a settle
ment that both shall abide by, any more
than it can compel a man to wear sus-
penderS who wants to wear a belt.
The people who have the idea that
Government is supreme and omnipo-
tent should disabuse their minds of the
notion. 1t has no business to take a
hand in the private affairs of two in
dividuals, and we may be sure that
if any law is passed looking to that end
the courts will, in justice and reason
and common sense, knock out the whole
proposition as being unconstitutional
and void in effect The way to arbitrate
is to arbitrate, and the way to enforce
the fulfillment of contracts is in the
courts. Any scheme looking to an over
turning of private rights and privileges
Will fail, as it should fail, or the Gov
eminent is not of the people but an au-
tocracy.
WOOL AND THE WAVE.
Stockton independent: 1t is safe to
assume that those papers that have
been sneering at the delay in the coming
of the wave of prosperity will not give
mnch n thp hnOr,o i'm n a
vance of 40 to 80 per cent in one year
In the prices in the Boston market is not
to their taste. Such an advance in the
face of the heaviest imp0rtations for
many years is something remarkable,
but it will be ignored by the Bryanites,
to whom nothing can be SO disastrous
as the restoration of values that We're
cut down by the Wilson German abomi-
nation which Mr.. Bryan thinks should
have further lowered the tariff The
failures last week We're 21o, while those
of the corresponding week of 1898, just
after the inauguration of Cleveland
with the certainty of a reduction of the
tariff, We're 39S, or 1S3 greater The an
ticipation of a reduction of the tariff
W as the most powerful factor in arrest
failures just before the reduction were
nearly twice as numerous as just before
the restoration tells its own story and
indicates that the wave of adversely is
subsiding after having spread disaster
over the whole country. That wave is
nearly at its lowest ebb and when it has
gone out the wave of prosperity will
flow in more rapidly and with it's rise
will come business and employment for
all, which will be death to the Bryan
cause.
THAT ROAD QUESTION.
San Bernardino Times-Index: The
best of wagon roads leading to Red
lands are none too good for those COM
ing here to trade or on pleasure bent.
Some of the roads we have are in very
poor shape, and should be put in repair
quickly and oroughly.-Redlands
Facts.
The demand for good roads is univer-
sal. Between the Legislature and the
Governor very little was accomplished
for roads at the last session of the law
making powers, and what was at
tempted to be done is in such doubt
that Supreme Court decision is re-
quired to settle the questions involved.
All this causes delay, but if the Su-
preme Court sustains the recent deci-
sion of the Los Angeles Superior Court
our Supervisors will feel at liberty to
go on and carry out system of per-
manent road building and extend the
sprinkling system wherever water can
be obtained. They recognize the fact
that sprinkling saves repairs and is
wise economy.
E. A. Bridgford, lawyer, Stoll build
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