Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-21
TRADE UNIONS.
Remarkable Progress That Has Been
 Made in the Past Century.

Remarkable HrOgreSs That Has Seen
 Made in the Past Century.
 No cause was ever won without a leader. The maddened French people, goaded to desperation by the yoke of royal tyranny might hurl their disor- ganized forces at the enemy, but with out the commanding genius of Napo- leon Bonaparte they could not long have continued in their revolt The power of the man who could ''rear- range" Europe with his sword, the man who could play that fierce drama upon the stage of the world, with kings and queens and lords and lordlings merely actors revolving about him, could never have done so were it not for the implic- it faith and trust of the men he led to victory.
 The humble Corsican peasant could become the dictator of Europe and the controller of the destinies as long as in him reposed the hope, confidence and respect of. the common people of his beloved France.
 The worlds history is filled with the stories of ingratitude; men have at tempted to uplift their fellow men and have been struck down by the very men whom they sought to uplift. Said Henry George. "It is sad, sad, read ing the lives of men who would have done something for their fellows. To Socrates they gave the hemlock; Grac- chus they killed with sticks and stones, and One, greatest and purest of all, they crucified."
 Henry George and John P. Altgeld, master minds, talent, genius, power, truth and character united both heard humanity's cry, in it's sacred cause their lives enlisted and the same martyrs crown of thorns was the reward men paid them. The energy and power that could carry poor boy of foreign birth from his poverty to the glorious chair of the great state of Illinois. ap- piled to the financial world might have given another Carnegie, another Rock efeller or another Morgan. The mind that could write Progress and Poverty might have ruled empires if turned to the sword. Yet with all the power and allurement of wealth and luxury, both turned from it to the fight for the toiler and humanity, and still men gave them the hemlock cup.
 Our lives are cast in a remarkable age. Combination and union are the watchwords of the hour Great forces are at work. The march of capital is strikingly put by Judge Tuley in the words: "Six men or probably less number control the railroads of the United States employing hundreds of thousands of men. They can at any moment, of their own will, stop every railroad car wheel in the nation, plunge their employees into idleness. paralyze interstate commerce and bring upon the public all the ruin. loss, suffering and evils which would necessarily re- suit from such action
 "One John P Morgan absolutely con trols the great billion-dollar steel cor poration and other great industrial cor porations, with their hundreds of thous- ands of employees, Think for one moment of the power for evil or injury to the great public that rests with this general of finance, before whom the captains of finance cringe and fawn: man before whom royalty bows ob- lsequiously and upon the continuance of whose life great financiers feel com pelled to take out policies of insurance.
 T remember reading at the time of the abortive coal strike in PennsyI- I-vania. about two years ago. when Mitchell and other leaders of the strike, after much pleading simply for an au- dience. succeeded in obtaining one with Morgan, at which Schwab. his alleged |million-dollar employe. and twofor three others controlled by him, were present. The labor. leader stood. if not in fact, at least metaphorically, with hat in hand, pleading the cause of the work lngman. This man Morgan turned his back upon them, not deigning to utter a single word.
 Kings have gone mad, and while mad have ruled their people, cutting such fantastic tricks before high heay- en as would make angels weep. Sup pose the brain of this man. this kin@ or the financial world should give way. or that, If not mad, he should arrogant ly and defiantly challenge the power of this great federation of labor and use his own great power in the conflict? There is much ground for believing that John P. Morgan with his thousands of millions of capital, is back of the coal barons in their inhuman ultimatum to one hundred and fifty thousand work CTS. Return to work. There is nothing to arbitrate'
 Tt appears that corporations have no souls and having no souls they have no sentiment, no humanity. It Is a demonstrated fact that if the managers thereof have any humanity the larger the corporation the less it is influenced by humane consideration of it's em. ployes. Labor has come to rocognize the fact that With these great combina- tlons of corporations and capital. those who control them not only have m feelings of humanity, but that with them it is. only a question of dividends the smaller the wages the greater the dividends, and vice versa-thus the laborer is looked upon by them as part or a machine in the establishment and worthy of no more regard"
 What then. shall labor do? Shall if stand idly by and be crushed. or shall It organize in defense? Labor stands at"the helm ofiprogress and on it de bends all Drospar;tr po+b o...4,