The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-18

| ciety as their own. They are destroying
| respect for any and all authority, save
that embodied in the commands and de-
| mands of labor leaders and labor organi-
cations They are educating the employee
against the employing classes, creating
anita gonism where mutually of interests
demand the utmost harmony and friend
| snip; they are demanding of state and
FEDERAL authoriti;s, class legislation ana
class discrimination, contrary to the very
fundamental p inciples on which this gov
ernment was founded: and last but not
least, they are bringing reproach upon
the judicial tribunals Of our country, the
ouly safeguards of free people
Inere has been saying so long accept
ed that many would as soon doubt holy
writ, as to question its soundness, which
Is. competition is the life of trade but
II Is not as generally known that "exces-
| stve competition is the death of trade
and yet this fact, more than all others,
gives force and effect to the claims Of
! labor untonism. 1t is to free labor from
this excessive competition that enables
labor union organizations 10 hold their
| membership together, and inaugurate
strikes and boycotts. Now here we have
in every truth, q trust formed for the
| identical purpose it is charged against
capital. thar their industrial corporation
are formed. Both have for their prime
OBJECTS, the minimizing of competition, or
to do away with excessive competition,
which they have found from experience, is
destructive to both
There is no legal or moral argument
against the one that does not apply with
exact and equal force against che other.
There is no legal or moral obligation rest
ing on the government to regulate and
control the one that does not apply with
! irresistible logic to the regulation and
control of the other.
1T Is about time these truths were made
clear to the public, so that in the evolu-
ton of our governmental progress, the
rights and obligations of all classes may
be fully understood and properly protected.
I'VE have labor on the one hand. claim
ing all rights for itself with capital COM
bining on the other for its sole advance
ment and protection, until there is grave
denger that the superior rights and claims
Of the public will be lost sight of in this
! struggle for supremacy between the two.
| This is why 1 advocate compulsory arbi-
tration for the settlement of differences
between labor and capital, because the
public have the supreme right to demand
that the disturbances constantly occurring
from strikes and boycotts shall cease. We
are so Interviewer into this great govern
mental fabric of ours, that not one thread
that enters into the wool or warp can be
broken or misplaced without effectng.
more or less injuriously, the entire product
of civilized humanity around us.
Now the South can successfully handle
this question, and on a basis of exact
justice to both labor and capital, which
are integral and equal factors in our in
dustrial life. On that basis, and no other,
would I wish to see the recommenda tons
of this convention go forth for the creation
in every Southern state, of such a board
of arbitration as will render strikes, boy
colts and lock-outs an impossibility in the
South. and when we do this. we will
point out to the North the proper chan
nels through which labor troubles can and
will be settled. This is not sectionaiism.
but the very broadest of Anericanisr and
on that platform alone. do l stand. In
working to benefit the South, | believe that
an equal benefit in this respect will re-
suit to the North. and l hope that our
Northern friends, who are here to-day,
will view our action from that stand
point"
Chairman John P. Coffin of the Commit
tee on Industrial Interests submitted the
report of his committee indorsing the prof.
ect of the Southern Industrial Exposit on
in New York city in 1902 and pledging the
influence and support of the Southern In
dustrial Convention The report was
adopted
The report of the Committee on Educa-
tion, which recommends the appointment
of a. board of education to carry forward
the work of publication was heard and
adopted. The president appointed as this
board, V. w. Grubbs of Texas, president;
Cyrus Kehr, Knoxville, Tenn. J. N.
Sheets, Gainesville Fla; and A. S. Kin
canon, Columbus. Miss.
The Race Problem.
DR.. w. T. Cole of Waco, Tex, opened the
discussion on the race question. He said,
in part:
80 far as know, there is not an indus
trial pursuit in the South that is not more
freely open to the negro than it Is In the
North. l hope to see the time when In
dustrial schools will be found all over the
South, so that every youth, both black
and white, will be skilled in scne trade
| and when idleness shall be punished as a
| crime. and when economy, frugality and
| temperance, and the cardinal virtues,
truth, honesty and CHARITY, the basic prin-
| cipies of every religion, shall be taught
and enforced by the state. Give to every
| youth a trade and the elements of charac-
ter, and then, if he is so depraved that he
will not use them for himself, force him
| to use them for the state
THE watchword of the South should be
| education, practical. scientific, industrial
| education. The South is overcrowded with
schools for the higher professions of law
and medicine We need schools In every
| county in the South where. our youth will
given forces of nature, for after all this
Is the grandest education that a man can
obtain"
Prof. w H. Council, principal OF the
Agricultural and Mechanical College for
| negroes at Huntsville, Ala, followed on
the same question. He said in conclusion:
1.-The proper education of the negro will
| overcome all objections TO him as a la
borer. Education like righteousness, ex-
ats a nation; but ignorance. like sin, is
a curse to any people. There is no kind of
service which will not be more satisfac-
tory when performed by intelligent SER
wants Educated farm hands, mechanics,
domestic servants are hundred fo'd bet
ter for the South. Intelligence swestens
| toll when the teller knows that there is
no more honorable station in life than at
the top in his chosen field-whe her p o~-
man or Congressman whether queen in
The kitchen or mistress of the White
| House. Instead of degrading common Ia
| bcr by leaving it to the most ignorant
| part of our population and then dshon-
| oring the human soul by leaving 1t down
| in ignorance. let US lift up man and he
| viii lift UP labor Instead of materializlng
man. let us spirtualize matter. Let Us
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