The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-07

not all employers are solvent: not all
manufactures and enterprises are
paying concerns. There are pauper
capitalists as well as pauper labor
ers, and the one is often as much an
anti-sociai being as the other. |
know of railroads which are nothing
but mortgage and a streak of rust
No employer can determine how much
he can pay until his product is sold.
and he measures the return of his cap
ital-and these depend upon the season
and the market Then, again, under
our beneficcnt government, with all Its
limitless opportunities. the servant of
today becomes the master OF tomor-
row; your Lazarus in rags may tomor-
row he "A Dives Of the royal purple.
True unionism should never be mis-
judged Let II be understood once for
all, that unionism Is not Il crusade
, against inequality. freedom or capital.
but n protest against caste and class
legislation ut all times and every
where 1t In neither "A mendicant nor n
beggar 1t desires ~ unjust or dis
eliminating legislation In Its own IA
ynr; ii simply asks for Justice. for UNI
tramclled opportunity and equality be-
fore the law. The labor or yesterday
becomes the capital of today: that Ia
Dor II Yesterday is scarcely protected.
Not SO with the labor of today. Yes
terday's labor gets double the protec-
ton and far greater pay than comes
To the effort of today. Tnianism simply
asks that the one shall be given no
more protection than the other. 1t de-
mands only what is cthically and eco
nomically its own: 1t asks for nothing
more. and by the grace Of God 1t VIII
be content with nothing less
Not vandai.
Let II I've understood once for all thai
the union man In not by education or
nature either a vanaal, an anarchist
or a nihilist: that he neither desires
the FORMULATION Of honest debts, nor
the forsibie rcdistrihnroI Of PROPERTY;
that when such settlements are her
aided az union sentiments that they
are simply the agitations OF misguided
agitators, not the organization. FOR
one | do not believe that there Is any
irrecarcilable conflict between capital
and labor: do not believe that UNION
ism demands hostile or repressiTe leg
islation against a man or an organiza-
tion simply because he or 1t happens
To be rich. No, never! | believe that
labor md capital aret arcs or the same
circle: that they are like the blades oil
a pair of shears. powerless when seph-
rated hut irresistible when coming to-
rether | believe that true unionism
stands for regulated liberty under the
law. that II stands equally for the pro-
lection of Dives with his' millions hon.
estly required. as we'll rs for gttazefns
in his rags: but that 1t seeks TO so
eaualize conditions TINT in tho future
no Dives can reign and no Lazerus
.xfst
To-day two boys are born; one in
wonder hayel without money, leisure
education or apportunity-tho other In
yonaer palace. borne up by every
wind af fortune "as on the eagle \
wing: unionism has undertaken 10
make the chances of the two rs equal
as Is right, and before this movement
Is checked and through every child
born beneath the flag will have an
equal opportunity. | believe that
unionism stands equally against the
mad blows of violence sometimes
committed in its name1. and the fatal
dry rot of fraud. i believe that capital
and labor should be allies. not antago-
nists. aud that they -ghouii.and ere
long Will. he colleagues whose friendly
cooperation Is essential 10 our ma
tianai and individual prosperity. go
We have M such broad distinctions
between capital and labor as Obtain
in TNraup There the status If the
father In visited on the heads nj the
SONS Ia succeeding generations. Our
labor reaches beyond mere SuhSis-
tenco. or the power of providing for
We know that with us. labor earns for
Itself and creates capital. A. Mr.
Webster said: Gentlemen. the labor
of the United states is respectable, w
are emphaticatiy country II labor;
and labor with us is not reluctant
druclgery. 1t is cheerful, contented
spirited. because it is respectable. and
because it is certain of its reward
Labor everywhere mixes itself with
capital The fields around us. how
many of them are titled by their own
erS* The shops of nur town. how
manv are occupied by their prnprie-
tnrS. for the convenient pursuit Of
their calliugs, Hence. IN tho United
States. W. seq capital ANA labor mixed
together In degree unequalled i'm the
wnrlf
Let us look. gentlemen, la tile COLI
t4t4on Of other countries. and lnqGiro
a lutte into the causes. which, in some
of them. produce puv~rty and distress,