The Penn's Grove record., 1904-09-09

REV. sILAs {. SWALLOW

den and Gloucester Counties in attend
ance.
"The Greatest Enemy of Labor" wa
the subject of DR.. Swallows address
and while he referred to liquor as thai
enemy, he also sharply criticized what
he considered the weak points of labor
unions, principally the efforts to com.
pei all workmen to join such organiza
| lions.
Reviewing briefly the organization Of
capital and labor, the indirect object Of
each being Ito c%ontravene the great.
memorable law of supply and demand
and secure material gain by might that
could not be secured by right" he laid
down the following as some of the prin.
ciples that should mark the relations OF
capital and labor:
Compulsory membership in labor or.
CARNATIONS, or no work and. no bread
as a penalty for refusal to join, is un-
American as well as unjust. There
should be no coercion except by law as
to whom or when, or how long, the en-
ployer shall employ his helpers. The
law should fix the conditions and limi-
tatiOns of arbitration between capital
and labor. Capital and labor should
be cooperative, the latter sharing the
profits of the former. Labor should be
paid according to its value and not ac-
cording to a fictitious price fixed arbi-
trarily by AL organization to which the
laborer may chance to belong. One
labOrer's industry, and consequent skill
and efficiency, should not be burdened
with another laborer's Incidence and
consequent inef1iciency. Labor has an
equal right with capital to organize for
its WI protection and benefit, and
such laborers should not be discriminate
ed against so long as they do not inter-
fere with others rights.
No mar has a right to control a job
he has voluntarily abandoned. He
must not attempt to prevent another
from taking a job he has voluntarily
laid down. A Government that shares
the profits of a business which produces
most of the lunacy, poverty and crime
OF the country, compelling the taxpay-
ers to pay out SIG for taking care of the
results of said business for every dollar
paid by the business to the Government
is itself a criminal Government and de-
serves to be indicted at the bar of pub
lie opinion, which in a republic is the
ballOt-bOX. Abstinence from intoxi-
cants, the use of which as a. beverage
has never helped INT human being, but
has ruined millions for time and eter-
nifty, would go far toward adjusting the
differences between labor and capital.
He then quoted figures from the Ma
tional Bureau Of Statistics to show that
III the manufacture and sale of liquor
less money is paid to labor than in the
manufacture and sale of any other
commodity. If a laboring man buys
500 worth of boots and shoes, he said,
he buys $23.T worth of labor; hard
ware, S24.17 of labor; clothing, $17.42
of labor; cotton goods, $16.9 of labor,
400
but in 500 worth of liquor he buys on
ly $l.23 worth of labor. In speaking
of the relations of the old parties to the
liquor traffic, he said:
Neither of the old parties have had a
monopoly in the vice of encouraging
the drunkard-makers; nor yet in the
virtue of attempting to prevent them.
Th%efollOwing States while under Demo-
cratic control passed prohibitory laws,
viz. Maine, Illinois, Minnesota, Michi-
gan, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Mississippi
pi, Texas, all i'll the ffties. South
Carolina in 1881, Alaska in 1887. The
following States, While under Repub-
lican control. passed prohibition laws,
viz: Michigan, in 1855; Maine, in 1858;
Massachusetts, in 1869; Rhode Island,
in 1875; Kansas, in 1881; Iowa, in 1884;
Rhode Island, in 1886; North Dakota.
in 1889, and South Dakota, in 1889.
Thus it is seen that IL Democratic
States have passed %prohibitory laws,
and nine Republican States have at
different times repealed prohibitory
laws, or nullified them by weakening
penalties.
Many drinking men and drunkards
and a few liquor sellers vote the Prohi-
bition ticket. The two former classes.
in the hope of Kidding themselves of the
temptation, and the latter from a will
lngnesS to quit the whole wretched
business as soon as all other dealers are
compelled to quit.
In the afternoon the political debate
at Alcyon Park, near Pitman Grove,
=. y. Beasley, of Philadel-
phia, for the Republicans; Major George
W. Ward, of Philadelphia, for the
Democrats; John 7. Wright, of Cam
den, for the Populists; and Rev. James
Parker, Prohibition candidate for Gov
ernor, afforded entertainment for a
fair audience. The political jibes
which the speakers gave each other
were amusing, while DIR. Parker PROV
ed to be the best speaker, he being
trained as a Presbyterian minister.
The debate was continued in the
evening when DR.. Swallow was also
present.
Lower Prices for N. Y. Horse Manure.
In effect August LIST, 1904,