The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-05

check the INSCRIPTIONS man. whether
employer or employe, without weakening
individual initiative. without hampering
and cramping the industrial development
OF the country. Is a problem fraught with
great difficulties n one which 1t is of
the highest Importance to solve on lines
OF sanity and far-sighted common sense
as we'll as of devotion to the right. This
Is an era OF federation and combination.
Exactly as business men find they must
often work through corporations, n as
porations to grow larger. so 1t is often
necessary for laboring men to work in
declarations. and these have become i'm
Portant factors. Of modern industrial life.
Both kinds OF federation. capitalistic n
labor, can do much good. and as a nee
essary. corrollary they can both do evil.
Opposition to each kind OF organization
whatever is bad In the conduct of any
given corporation or union-not Of at
tacks upon corporations as such nor upon
far-reaching beneficent work for our peo-
pie has been accomplished through both
corporations and unions. Each must re-
ference with the rights Of others. Or
ganized capital and organized labor alike
should remember hat in the long run
the interest Of each must be brought
general public: and the conduct Of each
must conform to the fundamental rules
Ct obedience to the law: Of individual
"a oAio VI J0oNiSS dLo 1911 tdllI1
toward all. Each should remember that
in addition to power 1t must strive after
the realization of healthy. lofty n gem
wage worker. must be guaranteed his
liberty and his right to do as he likes
with his property or his labor 30 long
Of others. 1t is of the highest impor-
lance that employer and employee alike
should endeavor to appreciate each the
viewpoint of the other and the sure dis
GTP ThQ WtlI Cn"a Ylnnr nth ~ Tho
long run If either grows to take as habit
ual an attitude of sour hostility and dis
trust toward the other. Few people de-
representatives both of capital and labor
and there are many such-who woyk
continually. to bring about a good undef-
and upon broad and kindly sympathy be-
tween employers and employed. Above
all, we need to remember that any kind
of class luminosity in the political world
is, If possible, even more wicked, even
more destructive to national welfare,
than sectional, race or religious animos-
ity. We can get good government only
upon condition that we keep true to the
principles upon which this nation was
founded, and judge each man not as a
part of a class, but upon his individual
of n man. rich or poor, whatever his
his residence, is that he shall act well
aIs honoraoiy W. by his se neighbor and by
man as such nor for the poor man as
such: we are for the upright man, rich
or poor. So far as the constitutional
powers of the national government touch
these matters of general and vital mo-
ment to the nation, they should be exer-
cised in conformity with the principles
above set forth.
Recommends Department of Com
merce.
1t is earnestly hoped that a secretary of
may be created, with a seat in
the cabinet. The rapid multiplication of
questions affecting labor and capital, the
growth and completely of the organizations
through which both labor and capital now
find expression, the steady tendency to-
corporations, and the wonderful strides of
this country toward leadership in the IN