The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-03
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
One of the Great Questions of the Day
Touched Upon.

TT OW to secure fair treatment alike
for labor and for capital, how to
hold in check the INSCRIPTIONS
man, whether employer or employee, with
out weakening individual initiative, with
out hampering and cramping the indus
trial development of the country, IS a
problem fraught with great difficulties
and one which it is of the highest I'm,
portance to solve on lines of sanity and
far-sighted common sense as well as OF
devotion to the right.
= This is an era of federation and =
y combination. Exactly as business =
y men find they must often work y
y through corporations. and as it is a y
y constant tendency of these corpora y
y tions to grow larger, so it is often =
i necessary for lalJOring men to work y
y in declarations, and these have be- =
y come important factors of modern y
= industrial life Both kinds OF teder-
y alton, capltalStic and labor, can 90 =
= much good. and as necessary =
= corollary they can both do evil =
Opposition to each kind of organization
should take the form of opposition 70
whatever is bad in the conduct of any
given corporation or unlOn-nOt or at
tacks upon corporations as such nor upon
unions as such: for some or the most far-
reaching beneficent work for our people
has been accomplished through both COR
poratiOns and unions Each must refrain
from arbitrary or tyrannOus interference
with the rights of others. OrSanlzed
capital and organized labor alike should
remember that in the long run the inter-
est of each must be brought into mar
mony with the interest of the general
pubic; and the conduct OF each must
conform to the fundamental rules OF
obedience to the law. of individual Iree-
dom and Of justice and fair dealing
toward all Each should remember that
in addition to power it must strive after
the realization of healthy, lofty and gen.
erous ideals.
y Every employer, every wage =
4 worker must be guaranteed his I'D =
, erty and his right TO do as ne hkes
= with his property or his labor SO I
= long as he does not infringe upon =
= the rights of others. =
It is of the highest Importance that en-
ployer and employee alike should endeavoT
to appreciate each the viewpoint OF the
other and the sure disaster that will
come upon both in the long run if either
grows to take as habitual an attitude OF
other Few people deserve better of the
country than those representatives both
of capital and labor-and there are many
such-whO work continually TO bring
about a good understanding of this kind.
based upon wisdom and upon broad and
kindly sympathy between employers and
employed. Above all. we need to remem-
Der that any kind or class anlmOSily ID
the political world is If possible even
more wicked even more destructive OF
national welfare. than sectional. race OF
religious animosity. We can get gooo
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 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 residence. is that he
shall act well and honorabiy 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 =
y Door So far as the constitutional \
3 mowers of the national government =
! touch these matters of general and .
3 vital moment TO the nation, they =
= should be exercised in conformity y
= with the principles above set forth. I