The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-28
ABLE ADDRESS
BY GROSSCUP
AT Meeting OF County and Pro.
bate Judges.
CAPITAL AND LABOR
BOTH ESSENTIAL TO THE cOuN.
TRY'S uPBUILDlNG AND BOTH
SHOULD BE RESPECTED.
BY Associated Press.

Springfield, ILL.,. Jan 27.-The sixth
annual meeting of the Illinois County
and Probate Judges association was
held here today, in the supreme court
room of the state capitol.
The meeting was well atttnded and
an interesting and instructive pro
gram resulted The principal address
was delivered by Judge p S. Gross
cup, of the United States circuit
court Chicago
Judge Grosscup spoke on the sub
ject THE Next Great Step in Ameri
can Politics, the Re-peopleizing of Our
Industries"
After expressing his confidence in
the continuation of prosperity. and
his friendllness to honest corporations
as civilization way of welding
large masses of capital" and his
friendliness to law-abiding labor
unions, as the embodiment in organ
ization of the natural law of self.
preservation: the speaker sketched
the present conditions and complaints
of employers, employe and the gen
eral public; and upon the relations OF
employers and employees, said
'It has come to pass that instead
OF peace, the standing relations be
tween them that of war. They look
upon each other. not as neighbors or
co-partners, but as belligerents. When
they sleep, IL is upon their arms.
Turing to the public at large to this
situation and it's consequences, the
judge proceeded.
In wars between nations, the victor
lays indemnity for his losses upon the
vanquishcd But in wars between en-.
ployer and employe the losses fall
neither on victor nor upon vanquish
ed. When truce comes and In.
demnty is laid it falls not on the
beligerents but on the outside pub
ic--the great neutral, who up to that
time. supposed it had only moral
interest in the conflict.
The employer deals in this day
not with men, but with republics o.
men; not with individuals. but with
governments, self-constituted govern
ments inside the greater government
called the state. Employment of
labor is no longer matter of bargain
and contract; it is matter for
treaty, for diplomacy. or for war
The speaker then addressed himself
to the causes Of the present condi
tions Our early industrial life, when
everything was made at home. and
when men of all occupations com
mingled as neighbors. was described;
then the growth of the factory sys
TEN. of corporations. and of labor
unions; after which, the feeling OF
separation and estrangement that
such conditions naturally produced
between the several interests was
brought out.
I'VE have common system of edu-
cation" said the Judge "but our child
rem no longer sit in the same schools.
We have a common religion. but We
worship in separate buildings. We
have patriotism in common, and q
flag. but the occasions that call 1t out
come only at intervals No distance
has proven so great as the distance
between men living in the same city
but interested in different occupations
and moving in different circles"
The Indifference of laboring men to
the owning of property, even their
homes, was then referred to and the.
underlying causes for this change,
chief of which is the drift toward pa
ternalism inspired by labor unions.
Calling attention to what he designat-
ed "the most recent phenomena in in
dustrial evolution" the rapid with
drawal of the great middle body of
our citizenship from ownership in all
industrial properties of the country,
the speaker said:
During the last twenty-three years
the capital deposited in the banks of
the country has increased nearly ten
billions of dollars This capital largely
has come from men in the ordinary
circumstances of life. II measures
the capital detached during this
period by this class of our citizenship
from active proprietorship in the in
dustrials of the country It marks a
tremendous shift in the personnel of
active proprietorship-a shift as sig
niiicant as If in that short period
nearly one-haf the farmers Of the
whole country had sold out their
lands aud goods te few men, loaning