The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-04
LABOR DAY WAS
A GREAT SUCCESS

A GREAT SUCCESS
Continued from First Page)
Trades unions, therefore, are not only
legitimate, economic and social institu-
tons, but they are an integral part OF the
industrial organization Of modern society.
For the past decade there has been a
conflict between labor and capital. each
party claims they have been wronged.
There is a mutual dependence between
them and there should be a mutual fell
lowship. Excited, Goddess leaders, oftimes
INSCRIPTIONS, provoke trouble from both
sides and from an impartial summit, we
look with pity upon capital that withholds
itself from tile lield OF action.
Because Of uncertainty and doubt but
with Infinitely greater pity. do we look upon
the man who wends his way homeward
with cut in his wages thae means hun
ger to his wife and little ones. Capital
should receive. and generally does receive
protection from The strong arm of the law,
but while enjoying. this protection, it should
not combine its power and marshal its
forces to destroy the very means OF the
lahoring man to earn his daily bread. Can
ital has a. right to build a factory and
employ labor to operate it, and by the
principles OF justice, make a reasonable
divide of its profits between the owner
and the e1nployed-it has a. right to
carry on its business until its operators are
hoary with age but when capital, with
Iar-seeng vision. prompted by gain, forms
q combination by which the factory is
closed and the faithful servant is turned
OUT 10 die humanity cries out: .'Whv
this injustice?"
The public mind is crazed on the subject
n.
times combinations are formed. re,rt,ass
ana Goddess. This question which con-
fronts the American people TODAY is ono
oi [lhe most terrible menaces-erea fer and
d more darkening cloud than that in tha
on~,ed years Of the past.
we are becoming bound more tightly
.l.tu ilrif1i' IN the everlasting grasp of the
iiio"eth trust than ever slavery bound the
Hesro. Unless a change comes nv eon,e
marvellous power of reform. revolution is
inevitable. In the ages of the past. when
oppression came either in Kingdom or "a
Pubic the people rosse up and defended
what is the. remedy? What power can
stay the terrible tide? ..Ea11a1 rirbts 10
all and special privileges to none, is tbe
panacea, the Golden Rule that will solve
the problem of problems.
nave all sympathy for the man whose
want OF education and whose environments
are sucn that his moral character is weak
But what OF the man who forms companies
! iot ,'te sole purpose Of gaining wealth at
the cost Of principle and sorrow and tears
of the oppressed? What difference is there
between the man who robs a bank as
bandit, and the man or men who rob the
people through means of trust?
what difference is there in an armed
force closing the doors of labor and legis-
iation that makes it possible for men in a
legal, respectable way to snatch the bread
from hungry children? What of men VINO
can raise the price of meat and bread ard
in single day make their millions, while
the Wase-earner by the sweat of his face
makes his bread, and in slavery's chains
pays tribute to these modern Caesars who
never felt the pangs of hunger, nor heard
the piteous wall of distress
If these combinations were formed fer
the purpose Of cheapening the necessaries
of life, or decreasing the army of the IN
employed. and bringing happiness to The
American home, then the threatening
storm would disappear and the thunder OF
discomfort would cease to ROLL
There is no more suspicious sign Of the
worlds progress to-day than the increas-
ing tendency toward universal arbitration
The rudy glow of Mars begins 20 pale
before the silvery light of BetHl=lam's
star, fixed in the heavens amidst the
chanting of angel choirs-"Peace on Earth.
Good Will Toward Men, The groans of
a peasantry ground down by taxation tor
standing armies shall be answered. The
nations Of the earth will yet learn that
bonds Of loves bind more securely than
bands of iron. Shall it be the American
people who will teach the world this
| blessed lesson?
War struck from the slave his shackles
of iron, but it did not free his mind from
the darkness of ignorance and superstition.
No sabre stroke or cannon shot can cut
down the gloomy wall of race p1e.rSice
in the South. Only concessions ard for
| bearance can avert the impending ho,. ors
| of race war.
| The gulf between wealth and poverty
| Widens. In the very centres of our civili-
"a ion are want and suffering to sicken him
| who does not blind his eyes or steel his
heart. The spirit of the age is one OF
| unrest. of breaking away from the old
lines of thought and action. A sign OF
| progress this may be, but it is in such
! fines rs these that false ideas of heroism
mislead the masses. Strong, unscrupu-
Ions men, opponents Of blind, popular de-
cires ar fierce partisan passion, may pre-
cinitate nation into all the horrors of
revolution. The lurid flame of anarchy,
the smoke of the soldiers rifle which has
SO recently disgraced and startled more
+han ono American city, teach a twofold
, lesson. .srhey who defy justice must bear
| her frown: they VINO would seek her affairs
| ,n,,st resnpct the sovereignty of her laws.
The time has come when our nation
safely lies. not in the skllful use of the
| word. but in the right use of mind and
heart. May society be deaf to the appeals
! NJ the rash. agitator and ignorant dema-
gogue. NY men learn to heed the voice OF
hin whose soul is large enough to feel
that ali have rights, man with MIND
and judgment to discover the source Of
att t1,;euanca with strength and courage, to
sre lev # BY just and fair compromises
The ne evolution Of the worlds hero has been
the hms index nsussi Of mans moral progress The
comnron1iser wiling to renounce the glory
psSsaa pog3 iss sn aaF7s Of II an H. ess
hear III hYmself denounced by party hate as
coward gT55tor and 0 prs5 wse
shall sl1 roll away, men will unite with heaven
iat him a hero in the largest
and truast sense. inspired by unselfiesh
devotion dew i to a high and worthy PURPOSE
nurposa to serve, not self not party, not
| men,-but man. ,cm, NO pp1EE-
th -sele., of Colonel Harwood's
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