The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-06
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
SER UOV BY REV. DR. STREETER
 ON THE COAL STRIKE.

Matter in Its Legal Aspects Belongs to
 the State of Pennsylvania to Settle
 Amy Injustice is for the State to Re-
 dress AIso-LoeaI Fair Haven Items.
 At the East Pearl Street M. E. church last evening the pastor, the Rev. Dr. L. R. Streeter. preached on ''The Relation of the Gospel to the Coal Strike" He discussed three points. Each of the two parties is required to treat the con- tentions of the other party justly yet it is not mine to say which is right and which wrong. The claims and counter claims of each party is already twenty weeks long. They have been heard by the governor, have been reviewed by the president, have been exploited by the reporters and editorial writers of the whole press and still no verdict has gone forth; still the melancholy and ugly strike is going on. It is a specta- cle of lamentabIe confusion and fore boding and may well concern the most ardent and patriotic advocate of our patriotic institutions. Yet we are not to demand that injustice be the out come; whether our sympath lean to- wards the rich or the poor in the con- test If We are owners of property and employers We may find it quite easy to see this matter one way. If we are not owners of property, or employers, it Is quite easy to see the same Tn an oppos ite way. We are not to wish that might shall win because sit IS might, nor that weakness shall win because it is weak
 ness. We are to remind ourselves that might and right are not the same thing and that sympathy and justice are not the same thing. Right is no mans wrong be he poor or rich. Such was the gospel of righteousness that Jesus preached. It is highly important that between the contending parties broth erly spirit, such as the gospel com mends, should have a place.
 If 1t is expecting too much of those forms of human nature that are at present uppermost on both sides, then We venture to suggest this order of pro- cure as looking to at least a temporary settlement. We suggest that there be at once peaceable submission of both parties to the contest though each may be suffering from laws that are unjust; and that both parties patiently wait until more just laws may be enacted | that will wipe out the causes of griev- ance. And I believe the miners could well afford to take the initiative in this and that they would not suffer one iota, in their persons, or in their prospects, 1 by so doing,1 but that they would gain in the long run by pursuing such a course, far more than they would by getting now all they are asking. The miners as see it are looking in vain to the authorities and the general citi- zens of the states for such aid as will affect redress of the wrongs of which l they complain. The noble president has done all in his power to close the gaping breach. The president has pre- cedent for sending national troops into Pennsylvania to quell disorders, but there is no existing law which he can evoke to enforce settlement of the strike If, therefore, follows that the whole matter in it's legal aspects be- longs to the sovereign state of Pennsyl- vania. The charters of the coal com panies, and railroad companies are the creations of the state of Pennsylvania. The revenues which those charters ex- act and the taxes levied on these prop ! critics go into the state of Pennsylvania S treasury, the duty of that state in the premises is therefore obvious. If the situation, taking all it's widespread aspects into view is so grave that some kind of q settlement should be forced, il is the imperative duty of Pennsylvania to put such a force into operation as ii may legally employ And if the miners are suffering from unjust state laws both of these wrongs if they exist are subject to a redress through the author ity of the state. If it be true that the operators are able to man the mines were they not interfered with by the il. legal acts of the strikers, then the strikers have already lost their cause On the whole, therefore, we believe that the strikers have much more to gain by submitting for the present and seeking their redress through the constituted authorities of the state.''
 Quite a party of Fair Haven people lGIL SdluTUdy IllSIL oll tilc w dSlIllS5 Iol express for Washington, D. C., to wit
 ness the G. A. R. festivities The party included Walter E. Jacobs, Misss Jessie Jacobs, Miss Evalina A. Jacobs. Mis-! Jessie Jacobs, Miss Lizzie Hines, Mis-! Agnes Burns. MT. and Mrs. W. H Huntley and MT. and Mrs. Joel Rice.
 A most enjoyable occasion was tha
 at Fort Hale Lodge N. E. o. P, las
 Friday evening. After the regula1 business of the session had been trans
 acted, during which one candidate wa! initiated and five applications present
 Sister Bruce-the lodge was opened fo
 admission of visitors. The grand war den of the state, J. F. Chapin, was pres
 ent and upon being introduced asked that Sister Mary A. Bruce be escorted to the platform. The lady was seated and the grand warden in his inimitabl
 manner proceeded to tell her how sh
 had been watched by the other lodge
 in her work, and to have the pleasure
 of presenting her with watch iron her own lodge as a slight recognition 0 her services and their regard. At tn
 close of his remarks Sister Bruce, wh
 was completely overcome, expressed he
 thanks for the gift, amid the hearties applause of all present. The gift,
 beautiful gold watch with a fine Swis
 movement, has upon the front case tn
 monogram, M. A. B." and on the re
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