Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-12-13
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
Uni o N 10 m Con tains Much TIL at LIS G O O d
and Some Bad.

How to secure fair treatment alike for
labor and for capital, how to hold in
employer or empioye, without weakening
individual initiative, without hampering
of the country. is problem fraught with
great difficulties and which it is OF
of sanity and far-sighted common sense
as well as of devotion to the right This
Exactly as business men find they must
often work through corporations. and as
porations to grow larger, it is often
necessary for laboring men to work in
portant factors of modern industrial life.
Both kinds of federation. capitalistic and
essary corrollary they can both do evil
Opposition t. each kind of organization
whatever is bad in the conduct of any
given corporation or union-not of at
unions as such: for some of the most
far-reaching beneficent work for our peo-
pie has been accomplished through both
corporations and unions. Each must re-
from Wn Pbs rrs Sf
ganized capital and organized labor alike
fhe nf a u1at IN ths long run
into harmony with the interest of the
must conform HORN to n the n funda G rHi e
OF obedience to the law, of individual
toward ali IL Each Should remember that
in addition to power 1t must strive after
er r IDEALS. Every emplo oy anu every very
wage worker. must be guaranteed his
Msa his snS h F6 or his az abor @ Ioas
as he does not infringe upon the rights
lance that employer and " empioye n alike
should endeavor to appreciate each the
aster that will come upon both in the
long run If either grows to take as habit
trust toward the other. Few people de
serve better of the country than those
there Such-whO work
continually to bring about a good under
and upon broad and kindly sympathy be-
tween employers and employed. Above
of class animosity in the political world
is. if possible: even more wicked. even
than sectional. race or religious animos-
ity. We can get good government Only
principles upon which this nation was
founded. and judge each man not as a
merits. Ali that we have a right to ask
of any man. rich or poor. whatever his
his residence is that he shall act well
and honorablx by his neishhor and by
man as such nor for the poor man es
such; we ere for for the upright hs man. rch
powers of the national government touch
these N tb Of nan s hnd vital h
cised in conformity with the principles
above set forth.
1t is earnestly hoped that a secretary of
commerce may be created. with seat in
the cabinet. The rapid multiplication of
questions affecting Ia Dor and capital the
growth ard complexity of the orgaEiza lions
through which both labor an6 capital now
find expression, the steady tendency to-
WARD the employ ment of capital in huge
corporations, and the wonderful strides of
this country toward leadership in the in
ternationa1 business world justify an ur-
gent demand for the creation of such a po-
merciai bodies in this country have united
in requesting its creation. 1t is cesira BILE
already passed the senate be enacted int O
law. The creation of such department
would in itself be an advance toward deal
ing with anS exercising supervision over
the whole subject of the great corpora lions
doing an interstate business; and with this
END in view. the congress should endow
the department with large powers, which
could be increased experience might
show the need