Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-08
CLEVELAND ON LABOR
Ex.President Urges co-opera.
ton OF Labor and Capital
to Avoid Strife.
Mutual Aid Is Necessary to
Peaceful Development Of
the Country.
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Delivers Address at the Found.
ers' Day Celebration at
Pittsburs. Pa.

n institute were held In Music hall yeste
o day afternoon. Seldom If ever befo
u has the occasion been SO interesting ar
! attended by so many people. Long b.
s exercises the capacity of the hall we
strained and the doors had to be close
barring out at least 1000 disappcinte
: people, who had stood in line for Ion
: time hoping to gain admission.
The presence Of former Presider
. Grover Cleveland as orator of the da,
/ and of Mrs. Cleveland as honor CUES
: served to augment the desire Of the pee
, pie to participate in the exercises, TIL
. entrance of Mrs. Cleveland into one c
i the boxes was the occasion of heart
and prolonged applause. Hardly ha,
this noise subsidized when another out
burst greeted the appearance of the ex
a president on the stage. The vast aud
fence received the distinguished CUES
by rising and giving expression to it
pleasure by hand-clapping and waving
of handkerchiefs.
Under the guidance of w. n. Frew
president Of the board Of trustees the
exercises of the day were then carried
thru.
Mr.. Cleveland's address was the. first
on the program It's delivery was
| marked by considerable applause and
| the appreciation Of the audience was
| expressed In close attention to the
| speaker turnout and In hearty applause
| when he closed.
Mr. Cleveland spoke in The Obliga-
tions of National Co-Partnership,. say
| ing in part:
The most serious and persistent evil
that disturbs cooperation among our
people is found in the contentious and
quarrels between employers and em-
ployes. Surely as an original PROPOSE
ton there should be no antagonism in
this country between labor and capital.
On the contrary, they should be in one
close alliance and friendship Our in
stitutions forbid that an explanation OF
such antagonisni should be found IN
class jealousy and abuses. 80 Ameri-
can citizen was ever yet doomed by
birth to life of labor or poverty; and
fortunes are the products OF industry
and Intelligent endeavor. Labor and
capital touch and mingle so constantly
and naturally among us that the Iaborer
of today is frequently the employer of
labor tomorrow. They should always
supplement each other as the warm rain
SUPPLEMENTS the fertile soil, to produce in
joint contribution an abundant store of
the riches of nature. Nor can the most
consuming desire for happiness excuse
contentious envy of capitalisttc wealth;
for 1t is beyond reasonable dispute that
the bulk of happiness among the
American people is found on plane of
our social life far below that occupied
by the rich. The cares and anxieties
the occupation of money-getting and
money-keeping. and the strangling of
genuine pleasure which is so often the
result, certainly ought not to excite the
envy Of the man who contcntedly works
with his hands and who by an ire
pealable fiat may find his work the way
to real, simple, unperverted happiness.
While healthful and normal conditions
of national partnership forbid envy and
unfriendliness on the part of the en-
ployed towards employing capital so
also such conditions most empha .ically
forbid the grinding selfishness, the
greedy rapacity and supercilious hauti-
ness which too often characterized the
treatment of the employed by capital.
Il desire distinctly to disclaim any in
tention to suggest what may be the
cause or causes of the dislocation which
unfortunately so frequently occurs in
the relationship of labor to capital
Whether 1t results from unreasonable
and irritating demands on the part of
labor, or whether our workingmen listen
too credulously to maiign counseIs, or
whether again the trouble arises from
the greed and avarice of capital and of
immense aggregations do not pretend
to say. Perhaps all these have share
in creating the difficulty. But there is !
antagonism in this relationship where
there should be a generous unity of pur-
pose. The situation itself proves that
somewhere there are members of our
in American citizenship who
act in violation of partnership duty; and
am sure THAI / venture nothing In
making the assertion that the only rem
coy for this situation must be found in
Il return to the observances OF the law
OF American cooperation. This return
will not accomplished by nursing real or
imaginary things on the part of labor,
nor by lordly and selfish arrogance on
the part of capital A beginning must |
be made by conspicuous examples OF a |
of the duty and obligations |
which are the conditions upon which the |
full enjoyment of our partnership adj
vantages depends These examples in
duce conservative and tolerant counsels;
they should be prominently recognized
and appreciated. and constantly pressed
upon the view of all who may be remiss
IN the obligations to American co-opera-
the scope and nature of
these obligations may be.
Such an example is seen In the estab-
lishment and expansion OF the Carnegie
Institute. The library, the museum of
Natural history, exhibition OF paintings.
music school-these things constitute
a monument more enduring than brass.
They commemorate not only discharge
Of the highest duties, but point the way
lie the creatin of such unification of
American endeavor as must develop the
most patriotism Those who love their
can not do otherwise than fer
sently hope that the example here ex-
,ibited may not only incite others to do
likewise, but may accomplish It's share
towards dispelling misconception, dis
trust and suspicion on the part OF any
within its immediate influence who
have allowed themselves to regard great
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