The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-18

from both the ranks of capital and
labor Ii not this, then the mem
bers should be citizens of high
standard of moral integrity. They
should be fully able to understand
and grasp both sides OF the questions
that might be presented to them, ana
both sides before the issue is joined
should agree to acquieSce in any de-
cision that the court of arbitration
might hand down.
Many blessings would result from
the adoption of this method While
strikes are aggressive and drastic
and destructive, arbitration is con-
ciliatofy and constructive. The re-
suit in the former case is determined
by the weight of the purse, in the
other by the weight OF the argument
Strikes are very questionable
remedy for the redress OF labor's
grievances They paralyze industry,
they fOment fierce passions; they
lead to the destruction of property
But, above all. they infiet grievous
injury upon the workingman himself
because they keep him in enforced
idlRness during which time his mind
is clouded with discomfort as be
broods over the situation. Not infre-
quently, too, his family suffers for
the necessities of life during his term
of likeness.
"On the other hand, no friend OF
the race can contemplate with calm
ness some of these heartless monopo
lists. Like the car of Juggernaut,
they crush everything in their way.
They endeavor-not always, so it is
said, without success-to corrupt our
national and state legislatures and
municipal councils. They are so in
tolerant of honest rivalry that they
use unlawful means in driving from
the market all competing industries.
They compel their operatives to work
Tor starvation wages, especially in
mining districts and factories, where
protests have but a feeble echo.
THE supreme law of the land
should be invoked and indicated
Ample protection should be afforded
to legitimate competing corporations
as well as to the laboring classes,
against Inscriptions monopolies''
Against Absolute Prohibition.
Now the talk shifted to prohibition
Cardinal Gibbons frankly admitted
as he has before, that he is against
absolute prohibition. He is opposed
TO excesses on either side; prohibi-
-
as intemperance
Liquor" he said. earnestly, would
be sold just as much under prohibit
ton laws as under well regulated
license. The consequence is that
LIQUOR would be sold contrary to law,
instead OF IN accord with the law.
When law is fagrantly violated
It brings legislation into contempt
1t creates spirit of hypocrisy and
deception; ii induces men to do in
sidiously and by stealth what they,
would otherwise do openly and above
board. Yet all good men, all good
citizens, are in favor of temBerance.
But you cannot by legislation or BY
civil action compel any man to the
performance of good and righteous
deeds
Let the virtue of temperance be |
proclaimed in all the churches. Let |
the family inculcate in the children
the spiritual and temporal blessings
which spring from a life OF. temper |
ance and sobriety. Let the father |
and the mother impress upon their |
the terrible consequences OF
I'VE might learn a lesson from the
Did cities OF Europe. which for coo |
years have been agitating this cues
-lon- There Is not a single city in !
Great Britain, Ireland or on the Con-
-lnent which attempts by law to pro-
aibit the sale of liquor. They have
earned by long experience that the |
best method of regulating this article
II commerce is TO impose licenses. to
good order for the protec.
Ion of the citizens and 10 punish the
-iolators of the law.
High license. / think, is the only
solution of the liquor problem. The
OF. fines upon the violators