The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-13

| OludCIOlS.
No War Between Capital and Labor.
A disagreement between the employer
and the emplOye as to the wages of la
| Dor is no more a war between capital
! and labor than is u disagreement be-
tween the merchant and his customer
as to the price of articles offered for
sale war between the producer and
the consumer.
There can be no war, or even con-
flict, between capital and labor when
their real interests are rightly un-
derstood and fully appreciated. They
are mutually dependent on each 9TH
er, and neither can accomplish any
great results without the other. OF
what use is labor beyond the supply
ing Of mere physical wants by the
cultivation of the soil, without capi-
tai to furnish transportation to mar
as for the development of all indus
triesp And of what use would cap
ital be without laborp In the worlds
without cars filled with the products
of labor, and such cars would be of
no use without capital to build the
r AdA11Odtl tAu Ouy CAC AOSoAAoVASS'
! In the old system Of mining in Mex
leo the peon dug the ore deep down in
i the earth, filed sack Of rawhide with
the material, and threw the sack over
his shoulder with leather strap across
his forehead to hold the sack while he
used his hands in climbing a single up
right pole, with notches cut into 1T like
stairs for his feet. On reaching the top
he emptied the sack Of ore into larger
ones suspended on either side of q
donkey. And the donkey transported
them along q ZigzaG path down the
mountain side to a smelling furnace
erected on the bank of the nearest
stream of water. Capital drives a tun-
mel through the mountain, lays an iron
or steel track, and puts upon it To-
comotive and cars, into which the peon
loads the ore as he digs it, and in as
many minutes as it took hours before
the ore is transformed from a drudge,
doing the work of beast of burden,
into man, with wages sufficient to
make home comfortable. Instead Of
the hovel of the peon, side by side with
the stable of the donkey, there spring
up comfortable dwellings, homes of
| happy childhood. So in all the pursuits
of life, in order to accomplish the best
results for the individual happiness of
: all, capital and labor must go hand in
hand. mutually dependent on each
other.
| All manual laborers cannot be
! equally successful any more than
can all professional OF business men.
There is no possible way by which
! incapacity or improvidence can be
made equally successful with capac-
ity, prudence and economy in the
struggles of life. If this Unborn in
equality of capacity in individuals
be all evil, it must be charged as
fault In the wisdom of creation.
Whoever is contented with sufficient
means for making himself and those
dependent upon him comfortable has
attained all there is of real happiness
in the accumula ton of wealth, and has
therefore no reason to complain of his
lot. All cannot be poets, painters or
sculptors, any more than all can be
lawyers, doctors or merchants, or
tradesmen of any kind. Yet in this
country every business pursuit or call
ing is within the reach of all. The
highways to honorable distinction
lead from the lowly cot of honest in
dustry the same as from the gilded
palaces of wealth or the halls of
learning, and they are all open alike
to the humblest child of the sons of
toll, from whom have sprung most
of the historic characters of our coun-
try, and in which the passing gen.
Grafton has not been deficient.
Rise from the Ranks of Toll.
The great soldier who sleeps on the
banks of the Hudson, and who will
through all time hold a foremost rank
with the great captains who have led
mighty armies over victorious battle-
fields, began life as a day laborer in a
lanyard. Our first martyr president
was born in abject poverty, and to his
mature manhood earned his daily
bread by his daily toll. Yet of all the
worlds civic rulers in peace and war,
he will forever hold no inferior niche
In the pantheon of human greatness
His two martyred successors, each
without wealth or family influences,
achieved honorable distinction in all the
pathways of life, and won the highest
honors in the gift Of a free people. In
all the great enterprises of this genera
ton. as well as of preceding ones, the
individuals who have achieved the
greatest success in the worlds estina-
tion have. in most cases, begun active
life with the smallest of pecuniary
means.
The grievances of labor in free elec-
tive governments like ours are to be
| removed in the same way as other
grievances are removed-by an appeal
TO the intelligent judgment of public
opinion. In free elective govern
ments, with free speech, free press
and universal ballot, there can be no
excuse for resort to lawless vio-
lence for the correction of any griev-
ance. In such governments, obed-
ience to the commands of law and
to the mandates of duly organized
courts is paramount to all else. No
matter what the grievance COM
planned of may be, resort to law
less violence is an attack on the
rights of every law abiding citizen
and upon organized society itself,
and if successful it would be the first
step in the road that leads to anar-
chy and national ruin. An enlight-
ened public opinion in a free govern
ment will in the end correct all real
grievances, if peaceable means only
are employed. II may require time and