Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-20

| dioceSeS are grouped Ill seven uis'ii'''
| each to have a court of seven persons
appointed by the general convention:
| A long discussion than began on the
application of several dioceses TOT per-
mission to use the revised version OF
the Bible in churches.
| The matter went over until tomor-
! rows session. The House OF Deputies
voted to concur with the bishops IN APP
1 pointing a joint commission TO conslo-
er the question of institutlng sys-
tenn of suffragan bishops and report to
the general convention.
| In the House of Bishops the
/ standing committee on the re-
lation of capital and labor OF
which Bishop Henry C. Potter of New
York. is chairman, was presented anu
J it was voted to continue the cOmmls-
! sion in Office. The commission was APP
I pointed in 1901 to study LABOR organ
/ izations and investigate the cause Oh
industrial disturbances, the commas
sion to be available in case us services
. should be desired. The report called
attention to the analogy between Ger
tain offences of the union ana ike OF
fences of both the capitalists ana the
churchmen. The employers BLACKLIST
was found to correspond to the union
boycott and both We're akin to the ma
| jor accommodation. Inc commas
sion considered that the lockout and
| the strike We're of the same nature. The
| laborer had learned from the capital
ist to despise order and break law. He
| had learned from the churchmen to
pursue the dissenter with menace and
violence.
The report condemns the tyranny
and turbulence Of the labor unions
and maintains that every citizen has
i light to employ whom he will and to
work for whom he WILL 1t deprecate,
the COMBINATIONS of unions because
they have made errors. The report also
criticiZes capitalists and condemns
child labor. The report says:
| I'VE have to confess regarding in
vestigation that we have not as yet
| succeeded in studying in common the
occasions of current disturbances. We
are agreed, however in the conviction
| that the causes of the violence of the
| past three years. in Pennsylvania,
I Colorado and Illinois. are not so much
economical as moral. The strike COM
monty begins in dlstrust. 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. Tie employer and
| the employed, separated by our indus
| trial conditions ut such social dis
| lance as to make fraternal understand
! ing difficult make their bargain one
! with another under these conditions,
not as partners but as competitors.
| Where distrust and antagonism are So
we'll founded, there is nothing for it,
so far as the church is concerned ex-
cept conversion. They who are at fault
are to be admonished on the one side
against prejudice and passion and on
tine other side against covetousn ness and
the sins which proceed from the in
ordinate love of riches. Where dis
trust and hostility are unfounded the
church may afford an opportunity OF
confer ence.
The church helps to 1enove the
moral causes of industrial strife when
she brings these different members of
her family into better acquaintance.
While We condemn the tyranny ana
turbulence of the labor unions and call
upon the law to preserve the liberty OF
every citizen 10 employ whom ne will
and to work for whom he will, we dep
recate the hasty temper. which in con =
Cemning tie errors of the unions con-
dennis at the same time the whole
movement with which they are con.
nected. The offences of the union are
as distinct from the cause for which
| the organization of labor stands as the
| inquisition is distinct from the gospel.
I'm the face of a prejudice and hostil-
| ity for which there are serious reasons
we are convinced that the organization of
| labor is essential to the well being of the
working people. 1t is based upon a sense
of the inestimable value of the individual
man. The cause of labor is the effort of
men. being men. to live the life of men.
| It's purpose is to maintain such a stan
dard of wages hours and conditions as
shall afford every man an opportunity
to grow in mind and in heart. Without
organization the standard cannot be
maintained in the midst of our present
| commercial conditions"
| AT the late afternoon session of the
| House of Deputies the debate on the pro-
posal to permit the use in churches of
| the revised version of the Bible was con-
| tinued
| James Mcconnell of New Orleans, on
posed the revised version and wanted no
change. Rev. DIR. Joseph Carey of Sara
toga was not particularly friendly to re-
| vised versions. but he favored the Amer
| lean revised version if a change must be
| made.
Rev. DR.. r. H. MCI\im of Washington
the chairman, leaving his place offered an
amendment providing that no Bible other
than the st. James version should be read
IN church by clergyman. except by the
consent of the congregation. The amend
| ment was accepted by Rev. DR.. Alison
or Brooklyn, in charge Of the matter
Inc attempt to authorize the use of the
revised version was lost. the clergy in %
dioceses and laity in 16 voting for it, while
the clergy in 81 and the lay delegates in
81 dioceses declared against it,
The bishops endorsed colored work in
the South and recommended that larger
appropria tions be made for it. A meet
ing Oh the society for the increase of the
ministry was hold at St paurs oh,,-,