Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-19
Speech at Kingwood Toda
TO ADJOURN TUESDAY.
Both Houses of Convention Vote to
That End

BOSTON. October 19.-Both houses of the
Episcopal general convention, which was
opened on October 5, have voted in favor
of final adjournment Tuesday next. There
is still much business to be considered, but
some of it will not be disposed of unth> the
next convention. which is to be held at
Richmond Va, in 1907.
1t is understood that several resolutions
bearing on the divorce question will be re-
ferred to that convention, although some
of them will be passed upon during the
next week
The proposal to group the dioceses into
provinces. with a primate at the head OF
each new district, submitted Yesterday, has
many opponents on the floor of the conven-
ton, and il is considered that the matter
will be referred to the Richmond conclave.
Today the house of deputies resumed con-
sderation of the new canon establishing
courts of review. to which appeals from
diocesan trial courts can be taken.
In the house of bishops the standing COM
nttee on the relations of capital and labor,
OF which Bishop Henry c. Potter of New
York is chairman. presented its report.
The commission was appointed by the gen.
eral convention of 1901 to study the pur-
poses of labor organizations. to investigate
the causes of industrial disturbances and
to hold themselves in readiness to act as
arbitrator should their services be desired.
The report says that no request for action
as arbitrator has been received and that
the committee has not as yet succeeded in
studying in common the occasions of cur
rent disturbances. We are agreed, how
ever. the report says. in the conviction that
the causes of the violence of the past three
years. in Pennsylvania, in Colorado and in
Illinois, not much economical
moral
The strike commonly begins in distrust.
The reason at the heart of it is that the
master has as little confidence in the good
Will of the men as the men have in the
good faith of the master. Where distrust
and antaConism well founded there is
nothing for it so far as church is concerned
except conversion. They who are at fault
are to be admonished. on the one side,
against prejudice and passion. and on the
other side against covetousness and the
sins which proceed from the inordinate
love of riches.
sons of the church. There is as much loyalty
to the church and to the divine head of the
church in the one class as in the other. The
church helps to remove the moral causes of
Industrial strife when she brings these diff
ferent members of her family into better
acquaintance.
We perceive among our clergy and laity
alike much ignorance Cranky confessed
and deplOred) as to the principles which are
involved IN the conflicts of the Industrial
world. Every industrial dispute involves
three parties-the employer. the employ ID
and the public-and the public eventually
casts the deciding vote
Thus serious social responsibility rests
upon every Christian citizen, and, more
We call attention to the analogy between
offenses of the union and like offenses
past or present, of both the capitalist and
the churchman. Thus the employers
blacklist corresponds to the unions boy
colt, and both are akin to the major ex-
communication.
The lockout and the strike are of the
same nature. The question of the closed
shop is like the question of the closed state
Many whose Puritan ancestors strOve to
maintain a state whose privileges should
lnts only m
ought to be able to understand the struggle
of their brethren to maintain shop in
which no man shall serve except member
of the union.
They may not agree with these brethren
but they ought to appreciate their self
sacrifice. The laborer has learned from the
capitalist to despse order and break law
He has learned from the churchman to
pursue the dissenter with menace and
violence. The recent tragedies in Colorado
do not follow at a far distance the mas
sacres which in the sixteenth century en-
sued upon the withdrawal of Holland of
the ecclesiastical union.
While. then, We condemn the tyranny
and turbulence of the labor union and call
upon the law to preserve the liberty of
every citizen to employ whom ne will and
to work for whom he will. we deprecate
the hasty temper which. in condemning the
errors OF the unions. condemns at the same
time the whole movement with which they
are connected. The offenses of the union
are as distinct from the cause for which
lLe organization OF laDOr STANDS as the IN
QUESTION Is distinct from the gospel.
In the face OF a prejudice and an hostility
Tor which there are serious reasons, we are
convinced that the organization of labor is
essential to the well-being of the working
people. Its purpose is to maintain such a
standard OF wages, hours and conditions
as shall afford every man opportunity
to grow in mind and in heart. Without or
ganization the standard cannot be main
taired in the midst of our present CONNER
cial conditions.