The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-12-20
BELMONT SUCCEEDS MARK HANNA
New York FinanCier Chosen President of the Nation.
al Civic Federation -Gompers Reelected.
Belmont Defines His Views on Labor.
CARNEGIE SPEAKS ON LABOR AND CAPITAL

New York, Dec. 15.-At its fourth
annual meeting in the Park Avenue
Hotel tonight the National Civic Fed
Grafton elected August Belmont, the
New York tinancier, president for the
next year to succeed the late Senator
Marcus A. Hanna. Mr.. Belmont ac-
Cepted the Office amid cheers of the
four hundred Federatiolists at the
meeting and later made a speech.
Samuel Gompers was re-elected first
yice-president and Oscar Strauss, sec
Ond. Mr.. Belmont's place on the chair
manship of the ways and means cap-
mittee was given 10 Henry Phipps and
Charles A. Moore was substituted for
Cornelius n Bliss upon the committee.
H. H. Vreeland, the New York trac-
tiOn man, was elected chairman of the
welfare department and Francis l..
Robbins and John Mitchell head, joint
Is. the committee of agreements.
! Ralph NJ. Easley is the new chairman
of the executive council and Samuel
Donnelly, secretary.
At the banquet, which followed the
the election of officers, Andrew Carne-
| gle was to have made the principal ad-
dress He attended the meeting today,
however and became so exhausted that
] he was unable, under his physicians S
orders, owing to his recent attack Of
! lumbago TO leave his bed tonight. In
/ lis speech, which Toastmaster Samuel
Gompers read, Mr.. Carnegie said:
81 have been furnished with an ad-
mirable test-'Industrial Peace This
is the day of peaceful arbitration
treaties among nations to promote in
ternational peace, a beneGcent change
even although these agreements re-
serve two kinds of disputes for the
arbitration of war in the last resort
"The farmer and his farm hands CO.
operates peacefully and their relations
are satisfactory as we safely infer from
the absence of quarrel between them
In domestic service a.. is peace; per
haps in this department the relations
of employer and employed are most
satisfactory of all.
"These facts therefore, lead us to the
cause of much of the tension ant
strife found in the manufacturing ant
mechanical departments. It rests JUS
here--the former bring in the persona
equation and into the latter nowaday!
that scarcely enters. 1t is these per
sonal relations, the knowledge of tht
virtues of the employer and employed
reveal TO each other, creating mutua
regard, that establish the reign o
peace in agricultural and domestic ser
vice.
81 am persuaded that quarrels aris
quite as often from the employers ig
norance of the fine qualities of hi
employees as from ignorance of tn
workmen of the good qualities Of thei
employers.
"As far as the largest manufacture
and mines are concerned, | think tn
great corporation engaged in disput
with its men makes a mistake if
adopt the policy, or even consider 4
| of running the works with new mer
: First, the best workmen are not idl
1 and to employ the only class that ca
! be obtained is to lay the foundatio
5 of serious future trouble. II does nc
r pay TO lose body of excellent work
0 men and sober, respectable men. nc
S to employ the class of workmen who's
S services can be obtained to fill thei
4 places.
g 'If, in~case of strike. the employe
J. promptly informed his men that the
!. need have no apprehension about the
S jobs. that he would not have any br
n his own men and knew that he coul
S not get such men as they, and therec
would wait for them until their unfol