Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-23
SOCIALISM AND
LABOR UNIONS.
Senator Hanna Discusses Their
Relations Telling What Basis
Of Success IS
IT IS FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE.
His Plan is to Have Organized Union
Labor AmeGicanizcd in Best
Sense Of the Word.

| Boston, Jan. %, senator Hanna con.
tributes Ia the February number OF the
National Magazine of this city an arti-
Gle on Socialism and the Labor
Unions"
After expressing his belief In the
power Of education over the American
people ana declaring that the basis Of
night success Is fairness and justice,
Senator Hanna writes.
There is no more engrossing ques.
ZION than that Of the relation between
labor and capital, which seems the par
amount Issue today The instinct OF
working men to band together to pro-
! tect themselves is no more to be Won
deIed az than the same instinct on the
| part OF capital Now my plan Is to
nave organized union labor American
lzed IN the best sense and thoroughly
educated to an understanding Of Ills ne.
| probabilities, and IN this way 60 make
II the ally Of the capitalist rather than
| "a Zoe with which to graphic.
1t is often asked what 10 to become
| or tue nOn-Uiganzed consumer II an
| amieablo alliance IS made between labor
ana capital? Rut every man belongs
| 10 the one or the other group for that
\ matter, he Is likely TO belong to both.
Il took some time to consider the
work OF the civic federation, ana am
hrmly convinced that ii IL the object to
| which ! desire to consecrate the re-
| naming tf Vt,TI
| pleclate that II Is long struggle, but
The progress already made under the
/ motto OF the civic federaton--the Gold
en- Rule--has surpassed even my most
sanguine expectations, and / am sure
| that the American people will sustain
| q policy based upon the highest moral
ana social Impulse which viii eliminate
| the passionate prejudice that now exist
between capital and labor"
Discussing some OF the objects of the
clVlc federation, Senator Hanna writes.
Until within a comparatively few
| years big capitalists or the employing
! interests have had the advantage be-
| cause there were more workmen than
there was work. but conditions have
| changed, and for every workman, on an
average, there are two jobs now in the
| heyday Of our prosperity, and 1t Is ex-
| pectlng too much OF human nature to
suppose that wOrkingmen shall not de-
| sire larger share of the profits. Has
not this motive been the stimulating in
centiNe Of the men who are making
business affairs? No one who Is ac-
| qualnted with union labor for the past
| five years can fail to recognize the won
| derfu advancement that has been made
| IN con soryatIve, cool-headed and thor
oughly practical management o. these
matters by the WDrlNngmen themselves
Labor organizations may be open TO
! sharp criticism at times but II cannot
be fairly stated that they are always
wrong. If every man Is treated as a
man, and an appeal made to his heart
as well as to his reason II will establish
a bond OF confidence as a sure foun-
! dation TO build upon. While labor
unions may have been a curse to Eng
land, | believe that they will prove a
boon to our own country when a prop.
| or basis OF confidence and respect Is es-
tablshed.
The menace of today, as | view II, is
the spread of a spirit Of Socialism, one
Of those things which il only half UNI
derst God and Is more or less used TO in
fame the popular mind against all in
dlvidual initiative and personal energy,
which has been the very essence Of
American progress. There Is a spirit
Of cooperation or community Of inter-
ests, which some people may cOnfound
| with Socialism, that Is making Roadway
with us but when any one attempts.
for political or financial reasons, to adj
voCate the whole program Of Euro
pean Socialism, he will find little pros
poets Of the seeds taking root In Amer
lean soil This, think, was demon
strated very cOncusIvely In the Ohio
campaign, where higher Socialism was
brought forth as an ISSUE
Fairness aud prejudice viii never
agree TO the connscaton Of the products
OF one mans tool In order to insure
comfort to the idle and worthless No
ism Is wanted by the American people
that VIII take from any citizen the just
ana equitable reward of his labor, Both
capital and labor must yield In time
TO the great law of fair dealing, man
to man, | wish | could Impress upon
every American the individual respOn-
slbility that rests upon each one OF Va.
Every year Of experience, every dollar
Of accumulated capital, every talent we
possess should be regarded as sacred
charge for the good Of the nation, to
help In uniting the interests OF rich
and poor, learned and unlearned'