The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-05-12
Nm INDUSTRIAL PEACE.
General Tracy Tells of Its Need
to the United States.
LAKES AN IMPORTANT PREDICTION


S=caaI Leaders Is Necessary to Pro-
e4uce Unheard of Prosperity - Flu
lure of Our Country Hangs In the
balance.
General Benjamin E. Tracy was
ssasked by a friend the other night
Nvx9lether in his opinion the politics of a
presidential canvass would this year
e4@ause much reluctance to invest capt.
ssa5 in business undertakings or wheth.
>=E there will be greater stagnation
a-zaan is customarily the case in year
xzYSsen president Is to be elected. His
1-azgIy was that all that the United
>Ss9ates needs for two or three years is
e1zsedience to the plea once made by
General Grant when he said, "Let us
gzGave peace" For in General Tracys
yzfew nothing but peace is essential If
1sLse United States Is to secure in She
EzGxt five years prosperity greater
gsasan any in the history Of the nation
asEzd is to perfect it's Pacific commerce,
10 strengthen it's international finance,
9<zSsancial power of the world, says Hol-
Land, the New York correspondent Of
s-faa Philadelphia Press.
ghen it was suggested to him that
gs1z&zgs were no signs of war, the trouble
yaEz1A Colombia having been ended,
General Tracy replied that the peace
g1e had In mind is not that which fol-
Gaags war or at least the war in which
sgssat armies meet and there are blood
s=Isad, rapine and devastation, but in
ss1zssd industrial and corporation peace.
iSEss was a little fearful that the two
sgs9at energies whose combination is
necessary if there is to be prosperity,
CHAT combination being directed by
ssiSz2ity, are at the present time either
GEgE1ally engaged in controversies
which threaten seriously the prosper
SSy Of the United States or are contenl-
Ezaz3zing controversies of that kind.
he did not speak of the gigantic
a~aIway disturbance in the northwest,
SsgzE It was apparent that he had the
>esgzafroversy, In which there seems to be
yassuoething Of personal pride and even
ex& jealousy involved, In view when he
spoke Of the need of peace. He did
&say, however, that the great menace to
Industrial prosperity Is found in the az
szezzexlde Of many of the labor leaders.
ElsE no man could be more sympathetic
vgzth the objects which the labor un-
Sh1s profess exclusively to contemplate
e7ssan General Tracy now is and always
RES been. He recognizes as he says
E1zzat unless there are intimate personal
zgzzauOnS between an employer al,,i
sEzose whom he employs organizations
~ workers are essential The ,e organ
s.2aIiions, ne says, have accomplish Ell
1,zaach and can accomplish mu,h moee.
lEsaxt somewhere there is grave fault.
Some one is responsible for the inca
ssaszzity or uHwIllingness Of many Of the
labor leaders to recognize the line
eTnere legitimate and wholly reasona-
s5se and healthful organization ends
SaDd where the authority of the law.
ssEatute and fundamental begins The
disposition to violence, the refusal to
recognize the liberty Of individual
2a-1aOice which is the very foundation OF
personal liberty, a choice which will
sermit an employer to operate with
49lse open shop or the closed If he
choose and the employee to associate
himself with the union or not if he
ezezaeose, is in General Tracy's view
disposition which must be instantly
es1ecked, for If it be permitted to grow
sesxzx republican form Of government
vwM end.
Therefore when he says that peace is
Eseeded if the United States is to take
advantage Of the marvellous opportuni-
s<aes for growth and prosperity that are
ysoW open he means that there must be
peace in the world of labor, peace be-
tween employee and employer.
AS a member of President Harrison's
tEaDfnet General Tracy had opportunity
10 learn some things Of which the pub
lie never had knowledge and which
convinced him that the United States
vg8s In grayer danger of civil war, not
- war of sections, but of classes, in 1894
gzBan the great public understood. And
General Tracy said, with much ear
freshness:
mot since President Lincoln's day
WAS ~ oCtIOu tdh0u hui any
ainore brave in Lincoln's day than that
gfalken by President Cleveland when in
-z694 he summoned the whole force OF
rFhe government for the suppression of
l1ncipient revolution in Chicago Cleve-
land struck, too, at just the right mo-
Sg1eDt, not too sOOn not too late"
General Tracy said, however, that re-
eng he had seen what he thought to
be good evidence that the fundamental
and fntuitiye sense of what the real
t2neaning Of the American constitution
-ssz2d the bill Of rights is is being better
and better understood by the great
z2ody Of men who work for wages In
New York city there is some fear that
s-ne peace for which General Tracy
zDzeads may not be our lot this year and
s-zlat contention may not be confined to
those who work for wages and those
who pay these wages.
while much allowance is made for