Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-12-05
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
Unioni~n Con TIA ms Much That Is Good
and Some Bad.

anu some Bad
How to secure fair treatment alike for
labor and for capital. how to hold in
check the INSCRIPTIONS man. whether
individual initiative, without hampering
and cramping the Industrial development
IS and one whe It we o
the highest Importance to solve on lines
as we'll 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 a
it is a constant tendency of these cor
porations to grow larger, SO it is often
declarations, and these have become i'm
portant factors of modern industrial life.
labor, can do much good. and as a nee
essary corrollary they can both do evil.
0 S,sd on to s each kind Of organization
whatever is bad in the conduct of any
given corporation or union-not of at
tacks upon corporations such upon
unions as such: for some of the most
far-reaching benefcent work for peo-
pie has been accomplished through both
frain from arbitrary or tyrannous inter-
ganized capital and organized LABOR alike
should remember that in the long run
the interest of each must be brought
general public: and the conduct of each
must, conform to the fundamental rules
freedom, and of justice and fair dealing
toward all. Each should remember that
the realization of healthy, lofty and gen
erous ideals. Every employer. every
berty his rsht to he fes
with his property or his labor. SO long
as he does not infringe IF &c upon the riShts
lance that employer and employee alike
should endeavor to appreciate each the
aster that will come upon both in the
long run if 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
continually to bring about a good under
and UPON Il broad e and kindly s yon yo be
tween employers and employed Above
all need to ,n her that kind
is. if possible: even more wicked. even
more destructive to national welfare.
upon condition that We keep true to the
| founded, and judge each man not as a
part of class but upon his individual
of any man, rich or poor. whatever his
creed. his occupation, his birthplace. or
a ans honorabiv by his neighbor a and bu
| his country. We are neither for the rich
man as such nor for the poor man as
| or poor. So far as the constitutional
powers of the national government touch
ment to the nation, they. should be exer-
| cised in conformity with the principles
above set forth.
Recommends Department of Com
1t is earnestly. hoped that q. secretary of
commerce may be created, with seat in
| the cabinet The rapid multiplication of
| questions affecting labor and capital. the
| through which both labor and capital now
find expression, the steady tendency n to-
corporations, and the wonderful strides of
| this country toward leadership in the in
| tern ational business world justify an ur-
| gent demand for the creation Of such po-
| Sition. Substantially all the leading com
| mercial bodies in this country have united
| in requesting its creation. 1t is 6esira BILE
| that some such measure as that which has
| already passed the senate be enacted into
| law. The creation of such department
would in itself be an advance toward deal
| ing with and exercising supervision over
| the whole subject of the great corporations
| doing an in terstate business; and with this
| end in view, the congress should en6ow
| the department with large powers, which
| could be increased experience might
| show the need