The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-08
TRUSTS PLEASE HIM
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND SEES MOTH
ING WRONG IN THEM NOW.
SAYS WHEN THEY DO HARM
is TIME ENOUGH TO RAISE A HAND
AGAINST THEM.

The Churchman Was the Principal
Speaker at the Labor Day Cele-
bratiOn at ST. PauI-His Speech
Was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Capt.
tai and of LabOr-How Labor Day
Was Spent Throughout the COun-
try.
st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. Union labor
organizations paraded in large num-
bers to-day In the afternoon a picnic
was held at Harriet Island. The prin-
cipal speaker on the occas sion was
Archbishop Ireland, who delivered an
eloquent address.
In his address Archbishop Ireland
said:
I'VE should not be afraid of CAPT
tai in whatever form it comes, wheth-
err in large personal accumulation or
in trusts or in syndicates. Names
are bugaboos that should not fright
en-. AS matter of fact, without
large aggregations of capital, great
enterprises are not possible, and the
country is not developed. 1t is time
GHOuSll W llOlu lllC hoIN heoehiioN - N'NS
and syndicates when they do harm.
If they are known to do harm the
country will attend to them. If they
do no harm. and on the contrary do
good, they should be welcomed.
Rights of Wage Farmers.
The wage Garner has rights-his
right to a living wage; his right to
reasonable hours his right to more
than even a living wage when cir
cumstance and success warrant 1t.
Wage earners have a right to COM
bine, to form trusts and syndicates
and call them labor unions.
But labor unions must be on their
guard against serious evils threaten
ing them. They cannot be tolerated if
they interfere with the personal lib
erty of non union men who have a
right to work in or outside unions as
they please. Public opinion and pub
lie law will and must protect this lib
erty. It were social chaos if we were
to impose our opinions on others by
force. What right have l to impose
my religious belief by force? What
right have labor unions to impose
their opinions by force? 1t is wrong
in labor unions to limit the output Of
work on the part of members. The
members themselves are injured, they
are reduced to a dead level of inferior
ity.
Strikes PreJudiced People.
1.-The functions of law in regard to
capital and labor is to protect the nat
ural rights of both capitalist and wage
Garner, to care for the weak1ings and
the unfortunate. Never should it go
so far as to destroy or limit personal
enterprise or personal liberty. do not
deny the theoretical right of the wage
earners to strike as remedy for what
they believe to be injustice. but prac
tically strikes do most harm to the
strikers themselves. Men are left
whole seasons without work. without
pay. The public in presence of strikes
is turned against labor union, and with
out entering for the moment into the
examination of the rights and wrongs
of existing strikes, / may say nothing
has arisen for long time in the coun-
try which has done more harm in the
public estimation of labon unions than
the condition now prevailing in our
large cities.
Building operations have been sus-
pended for months, and the whole pros
perity of the people has been retarded.
Public opinion is favorably disposed to-
ward labor. Let the wage earners show
to the country that they are swayed by
justice and patriotism, and they will
win in all righteous claims"