Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-02
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
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sage to you at the first session of the
present congress; substantially such a
bill as has already passed the house.
Capital and Labor.
How to secure fair treatment alike for
labor and capital, how to hold in check
the INSCRIPTIONS man, whether employer
or employee, without weakening individ-
ual initiative, without hampering and
cramping the industrial development of
the country, is a problem fraught with
great difficulties and one which 1t is of
the highest Importance to solve on lines
of sanity and far-sighted common sense
as we'll as of devotion to right. This Is
an era Of federation and combination.
Exactly as business men find they must
often work through corporations, and as
it is a constant tendency Of these cor
porations to grow larger, so 1t is often
necessary for laboring men to work In
declarations, and these have become Inn
pcrtant factors of modern Industrial life.
Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and
labor, can do much good, and as a neces-
sary corollary they can both do evil.
Opposition to each kind of organization
should take the form of opposition to
whatever is bad in the conduct of any
given corporation or union-not of at
tacks Upon corporations as such nor upon
unions as such; for some of the most far
reaching benefcent work for our people
has been accomplished through both
corporations and unions. Each must re-
frain from arbitrary or t%yrannous inter-
ference with the rights of others. Or
gained capital and organized labor alike
chnll1d rnrnamhar mt in tho long rln
the interest of each must be brought 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 free
dom, and of justice and fair dealing to-
ward all. Each should remember that in
addition to power 1t must strive after the
realization of healthy, lofty, and gener-
Gus ideals. Every employer, every wage
worker, must be guaranteed his liberty
and his right to do as he likes with his
property or his labor so long as he does
not infringe upon the rights of others. 1t
is of the highest importance that en-
ployer and employe alike should en-
deavor to appreciate each the viewpoint
of the other and the sure disaster tina
will come upon both in the long run If
either grows to take as habitual an at
tlluue OF sour nOStlllty ana ulStruSt to-
ward the other. Few people deserve bet
ter of the country than those representa-
tives both of capital and labor-and
there are many such-who work con-
tinually to bring about a good under
standing of this kind. based upon wisdom
and upon broad and kindly sympathy be-
tween employers and employed. Above
all, we need to remember that any kind
of class animosity in the political world
is, if possible, even more wicked, even
more destructive to national welfare,
than sectional, race, or religious ami
mostly. 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
a part of a class, but upon his individual
merits. All that we have a right to ask
of any man, rich or poor, whatever his
creed, his occupation, his birthplace, or
his res.uence, is that he shall act well
and honorably by his %neighbor and by
his country. We are neither for the rich
man as such nor for the poor man as
such; we are for the upright man, rich
or poor. SO far as the constitutional
powers of the national government touch
these matters of general and vital mo-
ment 10 the nation, they should be ex-
fiNlSth III community Win lnt principles
above set forth.
Wants Secretary of Commerce.
It. is earnestly hoped thai a secretary
of may be created, with a seat
in the cabinet. The rapid multiplication
of questions affecting labor and capital,
the growth and complexity of the organi-
cations through which both labor and
capital now find expression, the stead.
tendency toward the employment of
capital in huge corporations, and the
wonderful strides of this country toward
leadership i'm the international business
world justify al urgent demand for the
creation of such a position. Substantial
ly all the leading commercial bodies in
this country have united in requesting
its creation. IL is desirable that some
such measure as that which has already
passed the senate be enacted into law.
The creation of such a department would
in itself be an advance toward dealing
with and exercising supervision over the
whole subject OF the great corporations
doing an interstate business; and with