The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23

was a curse has become our highest prlvi- lege and pleasure. The contented man Is he who Is reaping where he has sown and eating only the fruit of his own la bor. Maledictions are upon the man who neither plows,- sows or reaps of his own fields, or contributes to the harvesting of the ripened grain from the field of oth- CTS. The idle consumer is the devils own child He needs no special lurld promise of the afterdeath. The whips and arrows of an outraged law will scourge him hopeless and hapess through the world. He will need no other pun ishment. Great is labor, and thank heaven that only a few Americans can, if they would, live without the exertion which blesses.
 Advocates Unionism.
 "I am not only an advocate of labor, but an advocate of unionism as well, and the blessings which 1t brings the workingman, and I may say. on the whole. all other men. l know of no other means by which the wage earner may wrest from capital the fair share of wealth which the two produce. I hear some times of capital trying to profusely dispose of itself to overcontented work ingmen, but no case of the kind has ever come under my immediate observation. It is impossible. Capital gives mp every centime grudgingly and labor never had what it wanted The rule is. and 1t is universal money wants all it can get, and takes it. The fact ought 10 occasion no surprise in any mind It Is not a new position for money, and money will not suffer itself betrayed into any smaller demand.
 And labor does the same thing. There may be a lonely man here and there working for smaller wage where @ larger one In like employment is iminedi- ateIy procurable but I do not know of such a party On the one hand we have Golden Rule nes-blessngs be upon his tribe forever, if he left any tribe-and on the other hand probably laborer or two laborers unknown 10 the public and un- named by me. Capital and labor both want all they can get, and are willing to fight for it, and have been fighting for it everywhere and for many ages
 ''The dreaming optimist may look for ward to a time when the division of the earnings will be easily made. mere matter of bookkeeping. The commission CTS, representing earital and labor, in this optimist's mental eye, will sit around. smoke. possibly partake of some slight refreshment, pleasantly eonversIng all the while. unanimously agreeing on a division of the dividends. No thought of disagreement. No. indeed. unless 1t should happen that capital ioud insist on la- bor taking a larger share, and labor protesting that capital was too poorly paid already. A sort of Gaston and AL phonse business. Such a beautiful oc- casion that would be. I would not advise you to wait for 1t. I would not advise your children to wait for it.
 "The only solution I can see is ar bitration, legal and forcible arbitration and the men who are to lead us to that goal may not yet oe born. If we cannot get statute early, time will write it later. Dear. blessed time. that proves many things and solves many things,
 Capital and Labor.
 Tn the meantime, capital is the pro- duet of many hands. and is. we may say, already united in it's own defense. Labor has the like right. and the duty laid up- on it is imperative. No sane man can avoid this reasonable conclusion. How