The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-30
PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTION.
Its Solution, Gov. Lind Says, VIII
End Labor's Difficulties.

Gov Lind spoke before a large audience
of the Retail Salesmen's ASSOCIATION and
other labor booles last night III Morgan
Post hail, Minneapolis. The subject CT his
address was Should Organized Labor
Have the Same Rights BEFORE the Courts
OF Law as Organized Capitai?'k *
In lecturing on the question:, Gov. Lind
also suggested a method Whereby tney
could be secured, and gave to the retail
statesmen plan, that judging from the
applause 1t received, Will be well investi-
In substance Gov Lind said "The great
question of today is not that of produce
ton. The world has outdone ITSELF iii the
matter OF producing food clothing and
al the necessities and luxurious or lie.
OF these we have the facility of produce
ing untold quantities. The great qnes{2n
that arises now is that of distribution,
and that is the one that -Ihe wo.Id is
now called upon to solve. ,.s.,<,...+..
The reason for the higher wages that
prevail in this countryJis not the result of
better-hearted capitalists, but is due to
the fact that the American laboring man,
when he has completed his days work,
has more results and better ones.
Il have been a protectiCnist IN the past,
but L am one TO longer, and the reason
for my change Of sentiments Is the same
as that which makes me oppose ting
trusts. l never defended protection Ct
the grounds that it benefited the laborina
man to the extent of the duty that Mat
placed upon the goods but because it en-
larged the field of the laboring mans ms
operations
wages are the result of three things,
labor, capital and the natural agents. Inc
whole labor question SINNERS down TO
the question what shall be the division be
tween labor and capital. If labor is get
ting fair share, then there is nothing
to be done. 80
the whole I do not think that 1t is, for
the reason that | see around me immense
fortunes of millions and millions OF dol
lars accumulated in the short space q OF
~ 70 "
vision this would not be-
1.-THE tendency of the age is that OIL as
ISOLATION. That is the apparent end OF
civilization, or at least 1t is a result. So
ciety. as it now exists, ic entirely differ
ent from 100 years ago. A man. does not
sit dow in these days and eat a meal
that is the prcGuct of ms own laDor, as
his grandfather did. On the contrary,
the food that he eats has probably pass
ed through a dozen hands before coming
to his 1t is the same with all products
LAS it has been with the necessities OF
life so has it been with capital The
law has very wisely allowed capital to
combine and work as unit. 1t has also
granted it the privilege OF coming INTO a
as an animate person. Labor is as I'M
portant in the production OF commodities
as capital, and why should it not have the
right to appear before court IN the
like manner as a corporation?
There is always one objection made to
this by the capitalists, and that is that
labor will not be bound by the edict or
the court. To a certain extent that is so.
If the law said that a man should work
so long for SO much he would virtually
be slave.
at have a crude plan, and that is that
labor unions could stand before the
courts on the same grounds as corpora
tons if they should agree to ABIDE by the
decision of the court on the penalty Of
the loss of their charter, and individuals
on the penalty of being expelled from the
union. If only organized labor We're rec
ognized. think that this plan. might be
worthy of some thought. Think this an
over and will be glad to discusslitswith
YOU again.