The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-26

mission, between the date Of it's organ1za-
ton and it's adjournment for the holidays,
suggests that more than any other COM
mission appointed in recent years, it is
doing the duty it was expected to do by
the public, the party Of the third part to
the controversy under consideration.
There IS no dallying with theories but a
piercing Of facts, and the virtue Of i'm
pa rtiaIity is dominant. The horizons of
observers are broadening. The public is
understanding more clearly how it is dis
tinctty- the party of the third pa TT and has
4 large stake in every dispute or physical
collision between labor and capital. 1t IS
understanding very decidedly that it is
directly interested in bringing about a
nnodus Vivendi between labor and capital
under the Industrial revolution which is
taking place; under the concentration of
production in fewer hands, which is the
conspicuous feature of that revolution
over which the socialists gloat as the in
dcation Of Il rapid drift to realization Of
their cherished social state, wherein labor
and production, transportation and com
of the state -, --.. =
The danger Of an orga nization of the So
cial state in this country is somewhat re-
mote, but the country is n1anifestly con-
fronted by the equally dangerous system
of monopoly controlled by private greed.
and arbitrator, the anthracite commission
is showing something of the real meaning
Of this system and concurrently it Is re-
veaing the weaknesses and injustices Of
organized labor in its struggle to right-its
avowed wrongs and gain q larger share Of
the product Of it's toll. The operator. is
discovered to be not the sole sinner in this
controversy and it has been shown that
both organized labor and capital will have
TO mount higher plane Of morality be-
fore they do justice to the actual interests
OF the public in the maintenance of per-
manent industrial peace. The course Of
t}ais investigation has been liberal enough
to cover the case Of the despised "scab,'
or the non union workingman, whose rights
cannot under our system Of government.
be annihilated by the DEGREES Of irrespon-
sible labor unions. The non-union man
has been given q chance to state his griev-
snces. He is q party to the controversy,
whose case should have hearing
1t is to be regretted that considerable
number Of labor leaders, expressing their
qualification over the appointment of the
anthracite commission, like the electoral
commission Of 1877 an extraconstitutional
body, have further predicted that, as the
strike has proven weapon Of sufficient
power to alarm the country and compel
prevent possible physical conflict and the
rigors OF a coal famine in the winter
months, 1t will be resorted to in the future
for the exaltation Of labor interests, on the
verge Of important general elections Men
: who take this view do, not know the tenn
S per Of the American people. Liberal in
4 their sympathies with labor where cond-
Z ions justify sympathy. they will not suf-
!. fer the strike to be used as a. convenient
9 POLITICAL weapon for bulldozing purposes.
{ The strike has been condemned through
i the strong national appreciation of the
{. actlOH Oh TITO PRESIDENT promoting the SX-
& listing tentative settlement. The more in
tellisent labor leaders wholly indorse the
arbitration commission. We may be in
q transition period, but it is a transition
from brute force an a mode Of settling in
dustrtal disputes, to the rational and HUI
name method Of conference. conciliation
and arbitration.
4 At the time the Philippine export duty
was made to discriminate in favor OF
h emp exports to the United States z h e
j ournal called attention to the fact
that 1t was in conflict with the open doc
which we had promised in the Philippines.
Ths Philippine import tariff makes no dis
.tinction between American and foreign
goods, but by making the export duty on
hemp less II sent to the United States
than when sent elsewhere, American
hemp manufacturers have been given q
positive advantage over those Of other
countries. and the discrimination has
tended to divert the trade from Europe
81 to the United States. Just how far the