The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-18
THE RELATION OF
 CAPITAL ID LABOR  Workingman Has Chance to
 Better Himself SAYS FRENCH AMBASSADOR jusserand Makes an Address at Ban- quet of the Chamber of Commerce
 cleveland-capital Hard
 Word to Define.
SAYS FRENCH AMBASSADOR

Cleveland. November 17.-capital's re- lations to labor and the efforts that are : being made throughout the world. espe- cially in France, to better the chances of the workingman to help himself in life, was the theme of Ambassador Jusserand, the representative of France to the Uni ted States, who spoke at the banquet of the chamber of commerce in this city tonight
 Declaring that he was proud to be the suest of the Cleveland chamber of com merce, whicn he said was one of the most infueneitl in the United States, and such as should exist in the powerful state Of Ohio. famous for it's wealth. energy and productiveness. He added that though the state did not do so in the early days when the country was insufficiently de- veloped, it has taken of late to produo- ing Presidents for the United States and remarkable specimens. too, witness Gar field, witness Mckinley, witness William II. Taft"
 Intelligence, he said, is the source of power which more and more will set the big human factory in motion. He said that thes role of money is changing and that colossal as is the part it plays in modern enterprises, 1t has a more and more marked tendency to yield in im- portance to that other source of power, that other form of capital, intelligence.
 He added that as the years pass in- ventions multiply and our wants become greater, intelligence would bow the trust capital, while money and the rest will be but counters to represent it.
 A Transformation.
 To this transformation in the form of capital, Ambassador Jusserand attributed the multiplication of schools and "the splendid efforts tried of late to improve the conditions of the workman and make ] happiness easier to access to him by placing at his disposal not mere pecuniary allowances, but the intelligence and ex- perence of those possessed of the new capltal-intelligence
 When considering these problems" he continued, "one is struck by the quantity of useful help which consists in mere information, in attention being drawn to facts unobserved by the workingman h,a,el, too busy in the day and too tired at night. Many of the problems of his life should be studied by those who have time and Knowledge and the solu- tions submitted to him. Of this sort, for 1 example is the problem of food"
 After giving a brief outline of changes from age to age in the relation of capital to labor, M. Jusserand declared that no study has been the subject of more ar dent work but that the very ardor with which it has been discussed has some- times obscured the position of the prob lem"
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 He said transformations have been going on while we have been talking V Declaring that the word "capitap' Is the hardest in the dictionary to de- fine, and that capital has often changed it's nature, he called it that power by which manual labor is engineered brought together, made to work in such clever fashion that it will yield profit for both employer and employe, while, if left helpless, it would have been un- able often to feed the laborer alone"
 The introduction of industrialism, he declared, was the negation of the feudal system and brought about a lowering of the, barriers between classes He said that capital and capitalists, with or with