The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-04-27

That Only Harmony between CapA-
tai ana Labor and Among rinan-
ciaI Leaders Is Necessary 10 Pro-
duce Unhenrd Of Prosperity = Fu-
ture OF our Country Hangs In the
balance.
General Benjamin f Tracy was
asked by a friend the other night
whether in his opinion the politics Of
presidential canvass would this year
cause much reluctance to invest capi
tai in business undertakings or wheth
er there win be greater stagnation
than is customarily the case in a year
when president Is to be elected. His
reply was that all that the United
States needs for two or three years is
obedience to the plea once made by
General Grant when he said Let US
have peace" For in General Tracy's
view nothing but peace is essential If
the United States is to secure IN the
next five years prosperity greater
than any in the history Of the nation
and Is to perfect its Pacific commerce,
to strengthen its international finance,
to march nearer Its pre-eminence as a
financial power Of the world, says Hol-
land, the New York correspondent OF
the Philadelphia Press.
When 1t was suggested to him that
there were no signs Of war, the trouble
with Colombia having been ended,
General Tracy replied that the peace
he had in mind is not that which fol-
lows war or at least the war 10 which
great armies meet aud there are blood
shed, rapine and devastation, but in
stead Industrial and corporation peace.
He was little fearful that the two
great energies whose combination is
necessary il there is TO be prosperity
that combination being directed by
ability, are at the present time either
actually engaged in controversies
which threaten seriously the prosper
4 ity of the United States or are eontem
plating controversies Of that kind
He did not speak OF the gigantic
railway disturbance Iii the northwest
but it was apparent that be had til,
controversy. in which there seems to b
something Of personal pride and ever
Of Jealousy involved, in view when hi
spoke Of the need of peace. He dix
say, however, that the great menace t
industrial prosperity is found in the at
titude Of many Of the labor leaders
i Yet no man could be more sympatheti
with the objects which the labor un
ions profess exclusively to contemplate
than General Tracy now Is and Away
has been. He recognizes as he say
4 that unless there are intimate persona
relations between an employer ant
those whom he employs organization
Of workers are essential These organ
izations, he says, have accomplishe'
much and can accomplish much more
| But somewhere there Is grave fault.
Some one is responsible for the inca
pacity or unwiliingness Of many Of tn
labor leaders to recognize the lin
where legitimate and wholly reasona
bic and healthful organization end
and where the authority Of the law
statute and fundamental. begins. Th'
disposition to violence. the refusal t
recognize the liberty OF individual
choice, which is the very foundation o
personal liberty. choice which viii
permit an employer to operate witt
the open shop or the closed If h
choose and the employee to ASSOCIATE
himself with the union or not il h.
choose, is In General Tracys view |
disposition which must be Instant.
/ checked, for Ii 1t be permitted to grow
our republican form Of government
will end.
Therefore when he says that peace
needed If the United States is to TAX
advantage Of the marvellous opportuni
ties for growth and prosperity that ar
now open he means that there must b
peace in the world Of labor, peace be
tween employee and employer.
AS a member OF President Harrison
cabinet General Tracy had opportunit
to learn some things of which the put
lie never had knowledge and whlc
convinced him that the United State
was in graver danger of ciyil war, nc
war Of sections, but OF classes, in 1S9
than the great public understood. An
General Tracy said, with much eaI
nestness:
mot since President Llncoln's da
was so important action taken nor an
more brave in Lincoln's day than tina
taken by President Cleveland when
1894 he summoned the whole force Q
the government for the suppression q
incipient revolution in Chicago. Clevt
land struck, too, at Just the right me
ment, not too soon, not too late"
General Tracy said, however, that RI
Gently he had seen what he thought I
be good evidence that the fundaments
and intuitiye sense of what the res
meaning Of the American constitutio
and the bin Of rights is IS being bette
! and better understood By the gres
body OF men who work for wages. /
New York city there Is some fear tha
the peace for which General Trac
pleads may not be our lot this year an
that contention may not be confined
those who work for wages and thos
who pay these wages.
( While much allowance Is made II
the professional pride. FOR the earnes