The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-09-03

roots of the bush because they come into
actual contact with the soil? Destroy
the bud and leave the roots and a second
bud will appear as beautiful and as fra
grant as the first; but destroy the roots
and the bud and hush Will perish.
How can the wage-earner secure that
share OF the earth's bounties and the Gov
ernment's protection which he deserves?
The associations formed by workingmen
have been productive of much good.
THE labor organization as we now find
it Is the product of Industrial conditions.
The individual found himself at Il disad-
vantage when dealing with the corporate
employer, and the organization not only
enables him to contend for his rights upon
terms more nearly equal, but 1t st!mu-
laIes him to study and understand the con-
ditions which surround hirn.
Labor Leads ia II eform.
The labor organization has been fore
most in advocating the reforms which have
already been secured. Several years age
the =ecret ballot was demanded by the
wagc-earners for their own protection.
That ballot has been obtained, and through
its operations those who toll for indiyid'
uals or corporations are able 20 protect
their political rights and to use the ballot
according to their own judgment This is
q long step in advance.
The labor organization has done much
20 lessen the evils of child labor. No one
can visit the factories where children are
employed without contemplating the Crime
which is being parpetrated upon posteTity.
If there is any temporary economic advan-
t2ge in the employment of children OF ten
der age, it is insignificant when measured
against the permanent injury done to pre-
sent and future generations. To rob
child of lis school days is bad enough, but
10 bend its back by load for which only
the adult is fitted is even worse.
The labor organization has also contri-
buted toward the shortening of the hours
of toll and il should not cease its efforts
until the eight-hour day is secured APP
proximately one-third of the twenty-four
hours must be given TO sleep; if another
third OF the day is devoted to manual ia
Dor, only eight hours are left for eating,
for going to and from the place OF work,
for the reading of current news, for men
tai Improvement recreation, social inter
course. and domestic life. Since the hours
occupied in eating and travel cannot be
ercrGGched upon. every hour added to the
days labor must be taken from the time
devoted To Intellectual development, recIe-
elton and the family.
The labor organiza' ion has been a con-
sistent and persistent au5ocate OF the doc
1rine of arbitration, although it is difficult
70 see why the burLeI Of this reform
should be thrown upon the IaooTlng man
Surely the employer, il he would take
comprehensive view Of his own interests,
would be as much benefited by arbitration
as The eInploye. and because every proionS-
ed contest between labor and capital brings
interrupticn to business and pecunlaTy loss
TO those who are in no way Responsible
Tor the disagreement, society in general Is
even mole interested than employers or
employees The desire for Justice is so uni
versal that the public cen be depended
upon to support the finding of an Impair
1ial board of arbitration as certainly as II
can to support the successful contestant IN
g lawsuit. The court OF arbitration IS enc
OF the CeTLainties Of The future. and when
it is secured and perfected We shall Won
der why its coming was delayed 50 long
sTenaCeS to tEc Toiier-
The blacklist, by means Of which en-
ployers combine To deprive TIE diseharg d
workman OF unemployment, is one OF the
more recent menaces to the latoring man.
The independence Of the wage-6arEer de-
creases as the difficulty OF Oh aiming en-
pluyment increases and the skilled work
man whose life has been spent in acqulr-
ing efficiency in certain trade or Cccu-
patton becomes practically the chattei OF
the employer if every opportunity 10 make
use OF his experience Is closed by aSreen--I I
between employers.
legislation prohibiting Oriental imn ga
ton It is unfair TO the American work
man, who is the foundation Ct the nation 5
wealth in time of peace and is d-f- ne
in time of war to subject him to the dan
ger OF having his occupation given to an
ORIENTAL IaboreP often brought by con-
tract. who has no permanent interest IN
our Government. II the Asiatics come here,
work for few years. live on q lower
scale and then carry home the net pro
ceeds Of their toll, the drain upon our
money supply VIII be similar TO that
caused by landIordism in other countries.
The political objections to Oriental lator
are scarcely less weighty that the econo-
mic ones. Race prejudice cannot be DIS
regarded, and we have seen how, in every
industrial depression, race animos,Ies re-
suit In riot and bICodshed. We cannot al
ford to bring into this country those VINO
cannot amalgamaIe with our people
The attempt TO use the injunction Of
court to deprive the laborlng man Of trial
by Jury should alarm all our people, for,
while the Wage-earner is the first to feel
Its effects, the principles which underlIe
government by injunction is so far-Teach-
ing that no one can hope to escape ulti
mateIy. The thing forbidden by an injunc-
ton would. without the injunction, be eth
er legal or Illegal. If it would be legal, the
Judge usurps the function of the Legisla-
ture when he forbids il. If it would be il
legal the Injunction Of the court is IN
necessary, for anyone who violates the law
can, upon conviction, be made to suffer the
penalties prescribed for such violation. The
meanest thief and the most brutal muir
derer are entitled to trial by jury: why
should this right be denied the laboTing
man? Those who oppose government by
injunction are not in favor of Iawlessness;
they are, on the contrary, the best friends
of law and order. They deny the right Of
any man 10 violate the law in an effort to
advance his own interests, but they insist
that it is inconsistent with our ideas of
government, and dangerous to all classes
to invest any judge with the threefold pow
er-frst to make the laws; second, to
bring accusation against those charged
with the violation OF the laws, and, third
rsaeTEETeAs Is remedy