The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-29
RES. MELLEN SPEAKS ! TO HARTFORD NORKMEN
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 the age of the working man. Let sn, with moderation, with conservat- in. show his ability to assume re- feasibility, and there is no bounds set % his attainments. The captains of 3hustry of the future are among you Sfuggling at day's wages for recogni- sAn. Men of affairs are looking earn lily towards them for there is a great saarth of men for the higher positions e modern industrial combinations are batting. But they are not looking for ebrands for trouble breeders, for kers, but rather for the quiet man ho works while others do the talk g. To those of you who belong to lions wish to say I believe they have complishe6 much good, but they are |Nertheless not an unmixed blessing | the laboring man. They tend to the Encouragement of individual effort and luce man to a part of a machine. ey are a good thing for the drone, B inefficient man, for the walking legate and the officers, but are un- cessafy for the man who has the 1rage to carve his own way in the rid. There are many working men To can earn more than they do whose ployers would gladly pay them more that they had become classified d an advance to them means an ad- nee also to their inefficient associates a similar class. Bivested of all p trap the union is simply means averaging wages and an employer WIS it as such. It is a device for king those who are willing to work ke for those that want to soldier
 President Mellen said that possibly & had hurt the feeling of some of his rers, but he would say that he be- led that unions as a condition had he to stay and that he had no preju- against properly conducted ones, 1t was his wish that his own men erally would join them. He would run union plant, as such but he id wish to have in the unions the servative influence of many of the "a men who are out to counteract f1oater, the anarchist the man who nothing at stake, who works with mouth more than his hands. He the trouble with unionism is it's in- rance. ITO succeed in this world, said, tone must bear and forbear. same spirit of intolerance that fills union man towards the non-union Vhat history shows us to have pre- ed ages ago in religion and in other IS. It is true the elimination of the ing that physical force is necessary he accomplishment of results that
 progress is made. You cannot : e things your way, but you may let them. The rule of seniority is
 one. It is most discouraging to A4 of ability. It is most repressive N oppressive. It deteriorates the < Vice. The result makes for dissatis- jon, this makes for change, which urn accounts for the large floating S in each grade of employment n the responsible positions filled by men.
 No one interest has done more to mote the trust of combination, the Ter corporation, than organized la
 It has forced them into existence protection from exaction. Into what it all tend2 Given all your hot |ls seek. and there will be no one mploy you, and corporations must un by the government. Capital will seek investment where nothing loss and controversy is the result. rule Of the radical will not prevail. hot heads must be retired or in the est in which he will involve you, will go down to defeat. Education brains will outweigh numbers and vn. The spectacled student is to be general of future armies; captains Industry may not always be those
 have worked with their hands. heed to whither you are drifting. brt to force gives the brute that is $ ascendency. It is only by self al of the individual the community resses. Civilization represents law
 order while it's opposite the mob esents brute force, the subversion law and order, and every one for kelf The laboring man should least Il appeal to force. The rich man o-day can accomplish less than at
 
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