The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-12

When will it end? l mean the use
less, cruel and ruinous conflict between
the capital and labor of our country.
AS | see it there is much in the social
and moral world that ought to be cor
rected. The expressed opinion of
nearly all the thinking writers of to-
day bear testimony to this. but in the
opinion of this writer there is more
involved in this capital and labor war
than in any other question, and all
other questions that now engage the
attention of the thinking people OF
this age. 1t strikes at the very root
of all progress in the social. moral and
religious development and prosperity
of mankind. 1t means ultimate revo-
luton with either anarchy or the de-
struction of our liberty at the end of
it. 1t means the destruction of our
present civilization or the formation
of a government powerful enough to
maintain it. In either event our coun-
try will not, for it cannot attain the
destiny which is the ambition of every
patriot, and which favoring Province
seems to have marked out for it.
Social conditions never improve on
strife and bloodshed. Religion does
not thrive on the spirit of hate and
malignity. Advancement in material
things in the face of such condition
is absolutely impossible. 1t requires
both capital and labor to develop the
material resources of any country, and
it requires both to maintain these
where development has been secured.
With discord and strife and hate, and
in some instances actual war between
the two, repeat that the end Of which
both should strive and In which the
security, happiness and prosperity OF
mankind is involved, is impossible Of
attainment.
This antagonism between capital
and labor seems to have permeated the
masses of our people to such an extent
that there is in the minds of nearly
all who are not wealthy a sort of an
tipathy towards every one he owns or
controls a large amount of money
This has grown out of lack of ability
or unwillingness to discriminate be-
tween the useless creatures who have
inherited great fortunes and live only
to reveal in the low, vile and grovel-
ing pleasures which they are able to
buy, and the men who have either in
herited in part or accumulated large
means and who are using them for
the development of great country,
and for the general betterment of man
kind. Many of these last, have, by
| industry, self denial, close application
to business and the help of favoring
fortune, accumulated large means and
they want to use them (and are using
them) for the common good.
Why should these people be placed
In class with the worthless vampires
ltlcIIS0 ". ACy al do iol dpoiI os
it Is possible for men to be. I know
that many of them are men of honest
and noble purposes. They have not
striven for wealth as An end. but as
means to the enjoyment that comes
with usefulness and success.
1t is the wealth of these men that
has paid and supported the labor which
has transformed many portions of our
country from wilderness into the
most prosperous portion of the habit
able world. Is it right, is it wise to
drive to desperation and to cover, and
force it's owners to place it in vaults in
order to prevent it's destruction?
| don't think that there is a man
living that has higher regard or more
sympathy for the honest. toiling hus
band and father who is trying to make
an honest living for his dependent ones
than l have. Such a man is not only
"the salt" he is the meat and bread
of this earth. He is Gods nobleman
The debauched, pleasure loving wretch
that revels in wealth that has beef
squeezed out of the muscles of Others
is as far beneath him as hell is from
heaven. l want to say, however, tina
he is no meaner or more worthless
than the trifling, indolent, two-leggeC
animal that spends his time cursint
all mankind in general,and CAPITAL