The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-03
STEVENS SCORES
 THE SOCIALISTS Vice President of New Haven Road Says They Differ
 Little from An
 archists.
FAvoRS UNION LABoRERs
Large Audience of Shelf. Men Are Ad. viscd How to Deal With Men by the Veteran En-
 gineer.

HiSI ciliel tllS ol Jilt fdndfld canal and now vice president of the New Haven road spoke of the rela- tions between capital and labor and of the part which the graduates of Sheffield and other departments of Yale should take. He said:
 In response to a request that 1 give you an estimate of the value of the work of the Y M, c. A. in connection with railway and similar operations, l replied. that owing to my small per scnal experience, along this particular line, I was sure I would be taking the time of parties better fitted to discuss such a subject. However. if desired, l would give you some few ideas, as they appeal to me. as to the relations, which should exist between you; as the future masters and directors of large enterprises, and your subordi- i mates, in every rank of the service I feel, for several reasons, that one debarred-as I was-in early life from most of the great advantages that you enjoy, should by looking backward over many years of practical eXper- l fence, be able to form as correct a 1 judgment as one whom, while of per- haps greater natural capacity, lacks | the obvious advantage of being able to see things from more than one point of view, and that one, purely l theoretical
 1 Our scientific schools are doing 1 great work In fitting you to take the 1 places of us older men, who, in the | natural course of events, must soon 1 drop out, and leave you to carry the heat and burden of the day, They | teach you the essential principles of technical work, they train your minds by discipline, until they become prac- l tical working machines they instruct you thoroughly In the use and care of all the various tools of your trade, the transits, the lathes. the motors, all of them with the one exception. and that the most important of all, man One Of the great questions before us, and 1t is becoming more important every day, Is the so-called relation be- tween capital and labor, and 1t Is one that has made sides, and not the least one is its Importance to our business interests. and, therefore, to the very life of our republic This Is a great nation. but is far from being com ] plete one.
 l For many years our latch string has been out, and millions of the people of other lands. the well-todo as well as the poor and hopeless at hom6
 have settled with us. have become a
 part of our social and industrial life, and must be reckoned with as such, Of different races. religions. habits
 and hered6es, they form an undi- gested mass. that only time and good
 Judgment can mould into a harmoni-
 ous component, part of our body po-
 litic.
 From these people, and to less ex-
 tent from the ranks of those born
 here, come the toilers of every grade,
 from the common laborer to the high
 est skilled workman, and these are
 the tools you must know thoroughly
 and upon which the success or failure of your work and yourself will depend
 You perhaps, plan and direct, but < the true measure of the amount and
 quality of what you accomplish will
 be governed exactly by the loyalty and
 faithfulness of those who serve you;
 and so you should have two-fold irf-
 terest in them, the interest which
 everyone should have in his fellow
 man, and another interest possibly
 selfish one, the interest which impels
 you to get from them the very bes
 service which they are capable of giv'
 ing.
 Now, I want to say frankly, l am
 not one who believes that all men art
 born equal; they are born equal in tho
 eye of the law. and, generally. in nc
 other way. Nature, our great mother
 never works along such even lines
 else we would have a perfectly fla
 world: no hills, no valleys, all day ol all night, all wind or all calm, and thi
 analogy extends even to the heavens
 above us. and we hardly need the con
 frmation of Holy Writ, to know tea "one star differeth from another sta in glory"
 Rather is everything adapted to it own particular end-inanimate and an innate through all species of life, ex tending even into the palm of man. W have born leaders in divinity, in law , in medicine. in finance, in engineering in war-in every walk of life, just a surely as we have some men bor
 stronger physically and mentally tha s some others; and the fact that occ9s
 ionally this law seems to be contro 5 verted. only means that the exceptio proves the rule.
 And just so surely is it true, that tn great mass of humanity is born
 serve and they will to the end of tim and no amount of academic theory c sophistry. will change destiny. Whl want to make plain to you is this
 While every man is a man-no matte what his station in life may be-ths . there are different ranks and grada : tions in life, and that only fatal harl
 can result from your efforts, or thos : of others. to altar natures laws. We Near much nowadays about sc . cialisrn. Socialism is defined as | theory of social reform which cor ! templates 2 complete readjustment : society. with more just and equitab b q distribution of property and labor Well. ii is a theory. which will l
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