The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-06

none say this with a stronger emphasis
| than do the officers of the miners united
union.
yet but marvel that causes of offense
have been so few. 1 have no reason to
doubt Mitchelrs .statement-seven deaths
haye occurred-four killed by, strikers,
three by coal and iron police. The strike,
the battle of shot and shell, are not the
| ways that Christ would choose. Hasten
then, sovereign citizens, the day when
tion, arbitration and sanity take the place
Of misunderstanding strikes and brute
force.
Except for the acts Of violence Of the
relatively few, do not see how the strike
on the part of the miners could have been
conducted with greater fairness. Search
the. records-compare statements with
facts-bluster with reason-and then ask
yourselves who deserves best your vote
of approval among the leaders
However it may be with others, cast
my vote for those who would make rea-
son the tribunal, my admiration is for
those who struggle not merely for self,
but for those who shall come after-their
children and their children's children. Ar
bitration has been asked forabut not
granted. And after this what?
What OF that great army IN the Goa5
regions? what Of those who were p1nched
to pay 2 cents a bucket for coal and must
now pay 10 cents?- perhaps go without.
How about the great manufacturing es-
adjustments If this strike. goes on?
Can the public, so much concerned, DO
nothing without a change OF govern
ment?
Is President Powerless?
els it indeed true that the president
and people of these United States can do
nothing more than make 1neffectual re-
quests in this case and other like ones!
Is it true that the fight must go on to
the bitter end, whatever the cost! MUST
such strikes constantly recur and the peo-
pie. much if not most concerned, do moth
ing effective?
ITO say that we have no alternative
confess the failure of democratic institu-
lions. ] will not believe it. When men
resolve that they will fight out their dlf-
ferences in the public streets to the IN
jeopardizing of the communities peace ana
well being, we simply say: You shall not
decide your differences in any such way;
You must take them before an impaTtlal
otherwise without injury to our COMFORT
and we can and do enforce our reasonable
demand. If man persists IN MAINTAINING ANITA 1,n
him out of his holdings, or, in extreme
cases, imprison him, and we agree that
this is right; The concern for the vel
fare of the whole people Is certainly great
er in our theory Of government than the
will of an individual when he acts against
that well-being. 1t remains for us to ap-
ply the theory in many practical ways
where it has not yet been tried.
Coal Is Gods.
DID Goa store the great COdl HlileS lOl
all his children or only for few to do
with as they will? 1 believe that the
rights of the public in the matter Of fuel
are greater than even the rights ht 9th, OF the
while making a fair return for coal. are
content that the mines remain private
property The institution of private prop
many advantages that it should not be
disturbed until many means have been
exhausted.
employers to provide an adequate supply
of coal and private property on the one
hand and mines worked for the people
and by the government on the other, 1
should not hesitate to cast my vote for
the latter, and l should not be So
cialSt in so doing.
ALREADY the government takes misman-
aged roads where interest is not paid to
creditors and appoints receiver. In or
der that creditors may be protected, and,
asks DR.. Abbott, are not the rights OF
the public to the highway as great; nay,
greather, than those of either stockhold-
er or bondholder? And, we may ask,
is the dependence of the people less or
upon the mines t 1bin upon f6a G lave W sfg
saw: talk it over between yourselves,
says the patient public, and if they
cannot or will not agree, or in extreme
cases one or both parties refuse TO DIS
cuss the matter at all. -,
"Then the public can say, l believe Will
say: Let both submit the case to an
refuse either to attend or be bound, then
must it be said in EXTREMIST case, for
the good of the whole, we must punish
offenders. We must take away away that at:
which in the last analysis IS God s-H1S
for the whole people.
zone day we shall consistently apply the
law to the industrial wars which we now
Shalt not disturb the well being and peace
of the community And the way shall
be found without injustice to either en-
P0yer Gr emRoseT They await fe the Coming
to pass of that doctrine which 1t should
he our aim to perfectly. learn and teach
until the time comes OF which the poet
sings
HThere shall come from out this noise OF
strife and grooming.
A broader and juster brotherhood,
A deep equality of aim, postponlng
All selfish seeking to the genera, g SSali
Be as Christ would have him-brother
unto brother
| /" eThere shall come a time when knoWl-
edge wide extended,
Seeks each mans pleasure IN the generai
And ali shall shall hold irrevocably blended
The individual and the commonwealth;
When man ana woman in an equal union
Shall merge and marriage be true COM
muniOn.
| {" There shall come time when brother
hood shows stronger. -.
Than the narrow bounds which now dlS-
tract the world;
When the lannon's roar and trumpets
blare no longer,
And the ironclad rusts. and battlefags
| When the bars of creed and speech and
| race, which sever,
Shall be fused in one humanity forever.