El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-05
SeIfishness the Trouble
Conflict Between Labor and Capital
Needs the Golden Rule to
Make Each Considerable.
BY Madison &. PeterF--

by Madison c. PeterF-
TINE conflict between labor and
capital is rather the conflict of
the senishness Of men who own
the money and want to get as much
work for as little paw as possible,
against the seIfisbness Of the men wo
do the work end want to work as lit
tie as possible.
Let love take the place of seIfishness
and the Golden Rule become the bas-
is of every contract between owner
and workman, and the result would be
a sense of responsibility in the en-
plOyer and of personal loyalty in the
emplOye When love, which is the
fuIfilment Of the divine law. is made
the rule of business, strikes viii be
no more. Then not only Will the rich
sympathize with the poor, but the poor
viii sympathize with the rich
One Eats Too Little; Other Too Much.
The poor may not have enough to
eat; the rich eat too much
The poor have no time to rest by
day; the rich often cannot rest by
The poor cannot afford to ride; the
rich, because Of dyspepsia, govt and
other troubles. cannot walk
The men who die when they ought
to begin to life. are usually the rich
men who are so burdened with bus
mess cares, thOL they have no time
for anything outside. They, too are
the ones on whom fall the heaviest
burdens Of dissipated sons and worth
less sOnsinlaW.
sGoIden Rule the Remedy.
The Golden Rule" will make you
give your men such wages as you feel
that were you yourself a workman
you would be entitled TO receive This
rule applies also to the workman. Let
him put himself in imagination into
the employers place and say what he
would then expect from his man
go So. q
diligence, with the very best workman
ship.
For workmen to demand an increase
in wages when that increase would
cripple the business by which they get
their living is simply to kill the goose
that lays the golden egg every day,
because she does not lay two day
One a Public HenefactOr.
A man who carries on an honest
business in which he gives work at
fair wages is a public benefactOr-
have known men who made contracts
in good faith and have known his men
to strike on him in the middle of the
job, crippled his credit and paralyZed
the business. I believe in labor or
ganizatiOns, but 7 also believe that
any combination Of labOrers that un-
dertake to kill enterprise is engaged IN
a bad business
II the Golden Rule governs your
conduct. YOU VIII always consider
whether by your striking you may not
whole community.
The unreasonable demands Of many
labor leaders is locking M millions
of money that might otherwise be now
going into new projects
Is a Free Country.
This is a free country in which every
man owns himself. II a man wants 10
Join the union. let him join, If he does
not. let him stay out
Any organization that undertakes to
prevent any man from working when
he pleases, where he pleases. is not
only the enemy Of capital. but primar-
lily the enemy of labor, because it viO-
letes the fundamental right Of labor
Any organization which impugns
this right, the right of every man 10
work and the right of every man to
the product of his work, whether cap
.talists or laborer's. is unjust and
ought to be legislated out Of business.
The first industrial duty of society
Is TO prevent every man in his right Z
TO labor when and where he pleases, 1
and in the ownership of the fruits Of
his labor.