Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-13
WANTS A DESP0TISm
Capitalist Thinks Laborers are Depend.
ent on MIN for their Very
Existence.

We have had occasion several times
to call attention to the gathering evil
dence of fight to q finish between or.
ganized capital aud organized labor
Parry's utterances at the New Orleans
convention of manufacturers was the
first indication of the existing feeling
in his class. While politicians like
Mark Hanna; who is also large EN-.
plOyer of labor, have, for political
effect, discredited Parry's remarks,
there was no serious objection offered
to them in the gathering where they
were made. The numerous attempts
to form organizations Of employers,
following so soon after the New Or
leans incident, show that something OF
the kind is developing.
The most outspoken man in the
crowd of employers, however, is a
writer in Wall Street Journal, q man
who that paper states has started from
the ranks and worked up until now he
is q great employer Of labor. He is
not satisfied with attempts to keep the
laborer down by organizations of en-
ployers. He wants the government to
assume the job. Speaking of man from
the standpoint OF industrial civiliza-
tion, he says:
He might be considered as a leader
among men, spiritually politically or
industrially, and that it was of prime
Importance that we keep the social
structure in such condition that any
man, however low his start iu life,
might, without imped ment, rise to the
most commanding position; that it
was the great e 0ry Of the democratic
1de. in government that it most surely
promoted this result, and that one of
the worst features of labor unions was
tendency to establish castles, which,
OF all the conditious of society, per-
haps acted most strongly as a preven-
tative to individual development-thst
1t did not seem to mo incon sistent with
this democratic idea that there should
60 along with It . moro despotie form
Of government. The Roman church,
for example, is high type of democ-
racy, in the opportunity it gives it's
members, and this is not Inconsistent
with its somewhat despotic form OF
government
II protest against the claim of the
labor leader that labor is the pro-
ducer of all the wealth of the commu-
nifty, and entitled to take all that
wealth to itself, believing that Tabor
largely owes It's existence and the sls-
borers' their maintenance to tho sxsr-
ttons Of tho leaders, and without them
it would be reduced either to the stark
poverty of the Chinese, or the lonely
and precarious existence of the Indian.
[ suggest that the effect of labor un-
ionism on the Industrial world is
largely the effect of a mutiny on board
ship, and instance thought of John
Paul Jones, which will quote. Jones
had been asked by committee of the
continental congress to answer q list
OF Inquiries on the personnel and ma
terial of navy, and in his reply to
the first question is the following par
agraph:
True as may be, the political
principles for which we are now con-
tending, they can never be practically
applied Or even admitted on board
ship, out of port or off soundipgs
This may seem hardship, but it is
nevertheless the simplest of truths.
Whilst the ships sent forth by the con-
gress may and must fight for the prin-
ciples OF human rights and republican
freed dom, the ships themselves must be
ruled and commanded at see under q
system OF absolute despotism.' .=...5.
How will the laborers Of this country
relish those statements?