The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-20
ALABOR TRIBUNAL
Major Harvey Suggests One to Prevent
Clash Of Labor and Capital.

1T has seemed to me. said Major
A NJ Harvey today. that the Amer1-
can people ought to taxa a lesson from
the Mcnamara affair Of much deeper
and more far-reaching character than
that presented by our newspapers anu
IAN Of Us can join with Colonel
Roosevelt in his declaration that muir
der is murder whether committed in
the cause of labor or in the cause or
capital ...- 49,
least the cruel crimes committed by
the McNamaras. Neither can he JUS
tifv the putting of steel filings IN oil
cups to disable engines; the displace-
Ynent of rails to wreck trains; the
-Iacine of I've in water tanks or even
the soaping of the tracks on the grade
Nv the wife of the discharged section
hand On the other hand, he cannot
Justify any of the violent measures
which are often used by capital in It's
contest with labor-which measures
have been fully as lawless, cruel and
degrading as those used by the labor
ing men.
ssThe situation which this affair
ehoa1ld bring home to every one is sim
Div this: We have no plan in all of
our laws and regulations wherein a
controversy between capital and LABOR
can be tried and determined In reg
Mar way A dispute between one la
taken into court and there decided by
the rules usually applied to contracts,
but we have no forum nor court nor
commission where questions involving
the general welfare of an entire class
of laboring men. and also the business
success and capacity of their employer,
can be presented.
ION one hand is capital. demanding
profits as well as protection and pres
ervGtion; on the other hand is labor.
demanding enough return to insure the
existence of the laborer and further de-
manding better condition., better OPP
portunities and sufficient further re-
turn to lay up compensation for mis-
fortune and old age
I'VE must admit that civilization has
permitted controversies between these
forces to be settled by force, intimida-
ton and cunning, in othe~ words, by
war.
AT the time of the John Brown IN
cident Horace Greeley in an editorial
said:
." There viii be enough to heap exc
Grafton on the memory of these mis-
taken men We leave this work to the
fit hands and tongues of thos who re-
gard the fundamental axioms of the
Declaration of Independence as gilt
tering generalities.' Believing that the
way to universal emancipation lies NOT
through instruction, civil war and
bloodshed, but through peace. discus
sion and the quiet diffusion of senti-
ments of humanity and Justice. we
deeply regret this outbreak But re-
Numbering that, If their fault was
grfevious, previously have they an
swered it, we will not by one reproach-
ful word disturb the bloody shroud
wherein John Brown and his com
patriots are sleeping. They dared and
died for what they felt to be the right.
though in a manner which seems to US
fatally wrong Let their epitaphs re-
main unwritten until the not distant
day when no slave shall clank his
chains in the shades Of Monticello or
BY the groves of Mt. Vernon
1T may be that I am mistaken in
comparing the McNamaras to John
Brown, but I only do so to call atten-
ton to the fact that back of the crime.
and the real formation OF 1t. lies an
evil which our federal government and
the government Of our states ought to
correct by establishing labor tribunal