The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05

by lHe young NOIIleIl are SOISeouS' L lie
music is catchy and up-to-date, COM
prising many parodies on well known
songs and choruses. which furnish
abundant opportunity for pretty stage
maneuvers.
There should be a repetition of the
crowded house at the Hyperion to-
night.
CAPITAL, LABOR AND FAIR PLAY.
The civilized world is making its tri-
butte to President Roosevelt because Of
his courageous and successful action in
bringing about arbitration between the
represent atives of capital and labor in
the anthracite region. 1t speaks we'll
for humanity that fair play is SO uni
versally appreciated and Endorsed. But
from another standpoint the widespread
enthusiasm over President Roosevelt
action is a severe criticism Of the
standards of our civilization. Why
should it be thought a wOndrous thing
that the president should insist upon
fair play Cor the laboring man as well
as for the capitalist?
Combinations 0s capital have been
encouraged by the enactment of laws
permitting their organization and gic-
ing to them peculiar and special privi-
lodges, and within limitations 1t may be
said that these combinations have con-
tributed and will continue to contribute
to the best interests Of all. Why. then,
is it considered strange that laboring
men should combine for the protection
III ,,e,
sion of the right of capital to combine
precludes the possibility of denying to
labor the same privilege. If. to take an
immediate instance, the anthracite re-
gion has been acquired and is controlled
by capitalists. upon what ground are
laborers to be denied the right to COM
bine and control labor in the same dis
trict? If the right of capital to control
an entire industry is admitted, the right
of labor to control the labor in that dis
trict must be admitted. If we deny the
right of one, we must deny the right of
the other If it be said that others are
free to control the anthracite region by
purchase, if they can, and that, there
fore, there is no monopoly, it may
equally be said that any other union
Is free to control labor in that region, if
it can. If the strong arm of the law IS
not used to check are acquisition of a
whole territory by capital the strong
arm of the law should not be used to
check the organization of labor in that
territory.
We are lot prepared to admit the
right Af any one to m0nopolize any
thing. But If these combinations are to
be allowed, then the public, the most
interested party must supervise and
regulate the relations between them. 1t
is not enough that they settle their diff
feI enCts to the satisfaction of each 9TH
err. Tney must be settled with due re-
gard for the interests of the public, and
no settlement will permanently stand
which does not take the public into con-
sideration. The preservation OF liberty
and the safety and permanence Of our
institutions are far more dependent
upon the wide application of fair play
and evel-handed justice than upon the
technical rights of the individual. The
reconciliation of classes, the frateinal
cooperation of capitalist and laborer,
are the surest methods of securing the
highest liberty of the individual
Churchman.