The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-02

ators, who reversed the policy they had formerly
pursued and that the powerful of their change
of mind was their fear of the storm of public hos
tity that had been provoked by the suffering of the
people which threatened their possession of their
property. The President, he avers took no definite
action until this appeal to him to arrange arbi
tratiOn was made.
''The views of Mr.. Wright as to means of settling
labor battles, and especially to means of avoiding
them, are pretty generally known to the country.
the recognizes the fundamental psychological element
that is involved in the warfare and he believes that
the laborers, and the better class of their leaders,
understand that strike is uneconomical in every
aspect He has great faith in the trades agreement
as an efficient preventive of strikes. He holds fur
Their, that present questions are phases of an
evolutionary movement that has been in progress for
centuries, and will continue for generations to
When present issues settled new will arise,
out this is not to be regretted. We must recognize
the struggle in all it's phases as inspiration itself
and that with every new development we find con.
fronting us the great wall of human elements. Who
ever therefore, aids the struggle to soften to reduce
It's asperites in all rational ways, is the friend of
humanity. We must not be pessmisc.
we must recognize the intelligence that is coming to
the workers, the hewers of wood and the drawers of
water, and that with intelligence and it's increase
there must be new problems there must be new de-
mands, or civilization retrogrades.'"
u And the Philadelphia Record, under the heading
i!ucIions ana Labor Strikes" says:
IN spite of angry and threatening appeals, the
judiciary Committee of the House still bravely
the United States to issue injunctons in quarrels
eDtween labor unions and employers There is the
same repugnance in the House to tamper with the
great preventive and protective writ in this case that
te senate has manifested in considering the question
OF a preliminary injunction in the rate BILL When
the power of the judiciary to restrain threatened
assaults upon the rights of persons and property is
destroyed in one instance there is no predicting where
law will end
In fact, after all the eulogiums upon the writ Of
injunction IN its restraints upon menaced violations
OF the laws it reaches but little way in the direc
tlon IN which it is proposed that Congress shall
whony prohibit its exercise We highly boast as an
lnalienabe right of American citizen that the
M1rkngman or employer shall not be molested in his
aDor or industry. We proclaim that the right of one
~ union labor man to work as he desires to work
Is equal to the rights of all Others to 90 on strike
ms sounds very well an abstract proposition of
human liberty in Fourth of July orations but how
a labor strikel "pf"'''''" W "'''''
Nnen strike is organized the first effort is to
~. I Che workngmen who consent to assist the EN-
PiVyers IN preventing closure of their mines or
ns. A committee is organized near the mouth of
"e mine or IN the very yard of the factory to watch
CONTINUED on Thirteenth Pagel