The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-12-05

individual initiative without hamperink
ana cramping the Industrial development
great difficulties and one which II is OF
the highest Importance to solve on lines
OF sanity and far-sighted common sense
as well 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, and as
II Is a constant tendency OF these cor
porattons to grow larger, so IL Is often
necessary for laboring men to work in
federations, and these have become Inn
Both kinds Of federation, capItalistic and
labor, can do much good. and as a nec-
essary eorrolary they can both do evil.
should take the form of opposition to
whateyer is bad In the conduct of any
given corporation or union-not of at
taeks upon corporations as such nor upon
unions as such: for some of the most
far-reaching benefcent work for our peo-
pie has been accomplished through both
corporations and unions. Each must re-
frain from arbitrary or tyrannous inter-
ference with the rights of others Or
ganized capital and organized labor alike
should remember that in the long run
into harmony with the interest of the
general public; and the conduct of each
must conform to the fundamental rules
OF obedience to the law, of individual
freedom. and of Justice and fair dealing
toward all. Each should remember that
IN addition to power i must strive. after
erous ideals. Every employer, every
wage worker. must be guaranteed his
liberty i.I 81, and his right to do as he likes
as he does not infringe upon the RIGHTS
OF others. It is of the highest impor-
tance that employer and employe alike
should endeavor to appreciate each the
viewpoint OF the other and the sure dis,
aster that will come upon both in the
long run II either grows to take as habit
ual an attitude of sour hostility and dis
trust toward the other Few people de-
serve better of the country than those
representatives both of capital and labor
and there are many such--who work
continually to bring about GOOD under
standing of this kind. based upon wisdom
and upon broad and kindly sympathy be-
all we need to remember that any kind
OF class animosity in the political world
Is, II possible; even more, wicked even
than sectional, race or religious animos-
fty. 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
part OF class. but upon his Individual
merits All that. we have a right to ask
creed. his occupation. his birthplace, or
his. residence. Is that he shall act we'll
and honorably by his neighbor and by
man as such nor for the poor man as
such; we are for the upright man. rich
or Door So far as the constitutional
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 Conn
merce.
It Is earnestly hoped that a secretary of
commerce may be created. with seat In
the cabinet. The rapid multiplication OF
questions Affecting labor an6 capital, the
growth and complexity of the organizations
through which both labor and capital now
find expression, the steady tendency to-
ward the employment OF capital in huge
corporations, and the wonderful strides Of
this country toward leadership IN the In
gent demand for the creat tion Of such a po-
mercial bodies In this country have united
In requesting Its creation. II Is desirable
that some such measure.as that which has
already passed the senate be enacted into
would In itself be an advance toward deal
Ing with and exercising supervision over
the whole subject Of the great corporations
END In View. the congress should endow
the department with large powers which
could be increased as experience might
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