The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

of our members as an equal and pay all alike. You must pay just as much daily wages to the ordinary worker as to the skilled worker" Or the labor union goes to the capitalist who is paying satisfac- tory wages and whose employees are all contented and says: 'AIr. so-and-so. we have got to call your men off on a sympathetic strike We cannot make your neighbors pay the union rate. There fore we shall stop work until the pres sure compels your neighbors to yield"
 Well" answers some walking dele gate, that Is an exaggerated illustra- tion, but uniform wages to all union workers and, when necessary, sympa- thetie strikes are absolutely indispensable in their way, and we are only follow ing the example of capitalists and em- ployers in making such combinations We must look after the interests of the laboring man and keep our labor un- Ions intact. It is only by the cooperation of one union fighting for the interests Of other labor unions that the pressure is applied and our reasonable demands are granted. The lahoring man cannot practice the Golden Rule of looking aft CT the interests of his employer or else he will starve to death The first thought the laboring man must have Is for him self, and himself alone"
 Mutual Trust.
 My laboring friend, if you cannot reach the high Christian standard of loving your employer as you would love yourself, you are simply heading toward the social economic wilderness. The greatest inspiration for future national prosperity is not to be found in the gold bricks which are stored away in the vaults of our national banks; 1t is in the mutual trust which the capitalistic and laboring classes ought to have in each other. If the average business firm could not trust it's customers or was in such condition that the wholesale bust ness houses could not trust 1t. that av- craze business house would be wrecked within thirty days. The amount of money which Is in circulation today is as noth- ing when compared to the billions upon billions of dollars worth of business done in America every year. I was once told by a keen, shrewd business man that at least 9S per cent of all business Is done upon trust-upon the promise to pay or to do.
 Now, if the capitalist cannot trust the laborer; if he feels that at any time walking delegate might come into his establishment and command his men to cease work on account of some unrea- sonable demand, what does he do? Why, he naturally and wisely soliloquizes: T cannot trust the labor market. If should invest my money in plant, my men may go out on a strike. Then l will be left high and dry with my property upon my hands, like a horse kept in the stable eating his head off will not rsA my $15O,0O0. I will buy government bonds or real estate first mortgages and take life easy" What Is the result? !? Why, this rich man builds no factory. as he would have done, and masons, car penters, gas filters and the plumbers lose the contracts they would have had upon that building, and a great number of men and women who might have worked there go without steady, employ ment. Then the commercial travellers and the merchants who would have been able to sell goods of that factory can not sell them because the goods are not made, and the people who might nave worked in those factories have earned no money with which to buy. Such evils are often 0 direct result of that capi- talist refusing to build that one factory because of his distrust of labor. It Is wrong distrust and arises from blunders and lack of sympathy on both sides All these evils accrue from the fact that neither the capitalist nor the laboring man will practice the Golden Rule and love his neighbor as himself
 The Dove of Peace.
 As a student of social economies l have carefully studied the prevailing conditions in Chicago during the years in which I lived in the Queen City of the west. During the last five years scores of manufacturers have left our city and have transplanted their factories into the little towns lar away from the la bor centers because tney could not trust the laboring classes.
 Thus the white winged dove of peace today brings a practical gospel mes- sage to the capitalist and the laborer alike. She brings the same kind of prac- tical help as the falcon of chivalric times did to his master. This knight be- ing very thirsty, would have drunk from a poisoned well. Again and again when his master lifted the cup filled with the deadly water to his lips the powerful wing of the falcon smote 1t out of his hand. At last the soldier ex- amined the brook and found It filled with the waters of death. So the white wing of the gospel dove of peace would knock the ehalice of selfish sin from the white hand of the capitalist as well as from the horny hand of toll
 Rich men, are you ready to have the words of my text translated and brought