The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-07-03
WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 1901.
4 QUESTION OF BUSINESS.

Our morning contemporary has broken
out again against organized labor. IL Is
awfully afraid that these ignorant and
unreasonable workimgmen will Interfere
with somebody's business--that some
body's right to conduct their own bush
ness, in their own way, will be interfered
with. We suggest to our contemporary
that there is no danger of this but that
il everybody would attend to their own
business ms they should, and when they
should there would he no difficulty. Let
MS instance a case. 1t was the Lobdell
Car Wheel Company's business to ar
range am;cably the matter of the nine
hour day between the company and MS
employees on basis at once satisfactory
and just to both parties Of interest, and
Mr.. w. w. Lobdrll acting for the Com
pany, did SO arrange the matter. Here
is case where both parties to the cur
rent labor dispute attended to their own
business. In addition to this there are
twenty other firms in this city where
similar results followed that kind of at
tention to business that recognized the
business of lahor's claim for a shorter
work day without loss of pay. Our con-
temporary will probably say, that is all
right hut the firms who are standing out
don't want to settle the difficulty that
way. NV here is Just where the inter
ference comes in. The workmen have
had no say in the matter of wages. They
do not want to work all the time for Il
mere pittance and to he considered rs
mere animated machinists to be bought,
or hired III some mans or some com
pany's pleasure nj rate fixed by that
man or company. But in attending 10
their business just as they want to the
way the News defends they have forced
the workingmen to submit to just that
kind of ~ rule. The right to quit work
don't answer the question The worker
as II rule cant quit work, and because Of
this the employers take advantage of his
necessity ANA the necessity Of his fellow
workers anh make II general rule of
take this or nothing and enforces il by
the half loaf better than 10 bread philo-
sophy. This has been the policy. One
of the News friends says, there is ALSO
lutcly no sentiment IN business. All right
The men are getting to a place now
where they can disnvow sentiment. What
they want is justice. And under thi,
rule they can safely say that the en-
ploy"r's right stops just where thei
rights, justly considered. begins. Upol
the plane Of Justice these parties Ia
business transaction become equals
equally interested IN lis right adjudici
tion. and ii is every mans business l.
see Justice done us nearly rs that ca
be-
Harvard has hcaten Yale at baseball
position with the Chicago Nationi
League club.
WAR TIME "REMINISCENCES
This day is the anniversary Of the la
Tie Of Gettysburg the decisive battle
the Civil War. On tho Fourth of Jul
81 years ago, Of which tomorrow will |
the anniversary. the loyal people Of II
United States We're rejoicing over tw
great victories won IN The same IA
General Meade in command Of the Arm
Of the Potomac, had beaten General IL
commanding the Army Of Northern vi
ginia; and General Grant had beat,
the rebel army Of the Southwest una
General rrmberton, at Nicksburg VIII,
General Lee was hurryiug to Get Sou
of the Potomac and escape from Genrr
Meadr's pursuit General pcmherton W
snrrrndcring 10 General Grant 1T Wei
burg.
These victories settled two importa
questions ended General Lees dream
carrying the war into the loyal Stat,
and settled definitely the question of I
command Of the Union armies. Fro
this time forward. while there v
severe" fighting, great losses AMI mn
sorrow throughout the land, thcr" "
no mnr, hlting il the forward mar
of the Union army f. final victory at J
pomattON
What wonderful times those We
There has brcIi nothing worthy to
compared with the four years nf civil y
in this country since il ended. The vi
of nations have appeared like masu
Iades compared With the war hctw,
the North aud he South in this count
The liberation Of Italy. the overthrow
the second French empire, the Span
American war, and the BucI British "
in South Africa. computed tngctl
would not exceed The American civil y
in any If the characteristics Of i gr
var. III such comparison III" Spani
ANN~lsMu war sinks 10 the plane of
mportnir>>lirmishc The reported i
ties III South Arrira between Beers 4
British soldiers, iudgine from the c;tsll
~ lists appear 40 more S,vi0us til
American Indian wars, of which t
country learned to take little heed.
the younger proPl" this may appear
rNt4yagant descriptive. 70 the oil
- people who lvrd IN those dnys, strrnu
days, il will appear to he very molcr
presentation If the truth. 1t has Il
said 81 the Revolutionary war per
that those were days that tried m,