Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-12-11

and Capital.
How to secure fair treatmen
alike for labor and capital, how to
hold in check the INSCRIPTIONS
man, whether employer or elnplove,
without weakening individual init
i%ative, without %hamperlne and
camping the industrial developing
Of the country, is a problem fraught
with great difficulties and one
which IT is of the highest import
ance TO solve on lines of sanity and
far-sighted common sense as well
as devotion to the right. This is
mn era of federation and combiua-
ton. Exactly as business men
find they must often work through
corporations, aud as it IS n con-
slant tendency of these corpora
tions to grow larger, so it is often
necessary for laborinQ men to work
in declarations. and these hive be-
come important factors Of modern
industrial life. Both can do much
good, and as a uecessarv corollarv
they can both do evil. Opposition
to each kind Of organization should
take the form of OPPOSITION to what
ever is bad in the conduct Of any
given corporation or union-uot of
attacks upon corporations as such
nor unon unions as such; for some
of the most far-reaehing bene6cent
work for our people has been ac-
complIshed through both corpora
tions and unions. Each must re.
frain from arbitrary or tyIannouse
interference with the rights os 9th.
ers. Organized capital and orga-
uized labor alike should remember
that in the long run that the inter
est of each must be brought into
harmony with the interest of the
general public, and the conduct OF
each must conform TO the funda-
mental rules OF obedience to The
law, of individual freedom and OF
justice and fair dealing toward all.
Each should remember that in adj,
dition 10 power it must strive after
the realization Of healthy, lofty and
generous ideals. Every employer
every wage-work, must be guaran-
teed his liberty and his righ5 to do
rs ne likes with his property or his
labor, so long as he does not in
fringe upon the rights of other.
1t is'of the highest Importance that
employer and employe alike should
eudeavor to appreciate each the
viewpoint Of The other and the sure
disaster that will come upon both
in the long run if either grows tc
take a habltual attitude of sour
hostility and distrust toward the
! other. Few people deserve better
OF the country than those repre-
sentatives both of capital and labor
and there are many ab-uta good
understanding Of this kind, based
upon wisdom and. upon broqd aur
kindly sympathy between employ
ers and empoyed. Above an, we
need to remember that any Kind %.
class luminosity in the politita
world is, if poalble even more
wicked, even more destructive tC
national welfare, than sections
race, or religious anlmosiiy. w,
can get good government only mp
on condition that we keep true L
the principles upon which this ma.
tion was founded, and judge eacl
man not a part of q class, hut unor
his individual merits. All TIN
we have a right to ask Of any man
rich or poor Whatever his creed, hii
occupation, his birthplace, or IN.
residence, rs that he shall act vel
and hohorably 10y his neighbor ans
ny his country We are naltheI
for the rich man as such nor foI
Che poor man as such} W. are fol
the upright man, rich orpoor. So
Gar as The constitutional powers OF
the nationsl government touch
these matters of general and vital
moment TO the nation, they should