The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-21
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the same privileges for those who toll. Be tween the combination of capital on the one hand, and the organization of labor on the other, there should be and need ne no irreconcilahle conflict; each Is factor in the economic development or our clVl- lization. and the application of business judgment and plain common sense by eacn would enable them to work in harmony. While the interests of labor and capital are not by any means identical, they are, never theless, reciprocal; each Is dependent upon the other, and under our form Of govern ment one cannot prosper without the other; Abraham Lincoln truly said that Capltai is the fruit of favor. and could not exlst if labor had not first existed; labor, there fore, deserves the first consideration" That this fundamental principle will be recogniz. ed by the tribunal selected by the president of the United States 1 have no reason to doubt.
 The grave question which you have been called upon to consider to-day demands and must receive your most carefui thought Personally I should have pre- ferred an adjustment of the difficulties ex- isting in the anthracite field by conference with the anthracite mine owners, and With out the intervention of agencies not direct ly involved but I recognize the fact that relations between ourselves and the mine operators have become so strained as to render direct negotiation at this time i'm possible. If the consequences or thls strlRe affected only the interests of the operators and mine workers there would be less req son for the intervention of third party, but the fact that a coal famine was upon the people of eastern and seaboard states, and threatened to become a national calam ity, justifies the action of the chief eXecu- tive of our nation in his earnest effort to bring about an early resumption of mln- ir..
 The proposition submitted for your con sideration may have objectionable features, and in its details may not meet with the unanimous approval of our people, but 1t is immeasurably better, as now presented, that when originally offered by the repre- Sentatives of the coal corporations. am firm in my conviction that the prompt ac- ccptance of this proposal will secure to the anthracite mine workers and those depen- dent upon them great measure of jus tice than they could attain by continuing the conflict: 1 believe that the prompt ac- ceptanCe of this proposition will secure to tice than they have enjoyed in the past
 The people of our country await with anxious expectancy the result of your &C., tion to-day; the eyes of the nation are cen tered upon you, and friends and foes alike demand the submission of issues involved by the president of the United States. That there are discordant elements in this con. vention; that there are dissatisfied ones at home, l am fully aware, but. gentlemen, with all the earnestness of which l am pos Srssed l urge that you give your approval to the action of your executive officers. who have recommended acceptance of the proposition that the strike be declared of, and all men are then to return to work in the positions and working places occupied by them prior to the inauguration of the strike and that al! questions at issue be submitted for adjustment to the tribunal selected by the president of the United States.