Evening journal., 1916-01-27

ing to do, there would be little
trouble daughter and applause). d.
Mr.. MacVeigh said: ! acknowledge,
Mr.. Mitchell, ] think there would.
There is another thing that l re-
call that had a little humor i'm It,.
While the testimony was being put
in (Bear with me if ] am reminiscing.
An old man is priviledged to remin-
isce.) While the testimony for the
operators was being put in before the
commission they produced a maga-
zine called The Outlook, not the
present Outlook but one that pre-
ceded it-and it had a picture in it
of a town, TOwanda, I think, show
ing a broad street and a man in the
middle of it, in the center of the pic
ture. in his shirt-sleeves, running, and
back of him a mob of men and boys
with stones and sticks hurtling
through the air. and underneath was
written, This was the pursuit Of a
non-union man, a strike-breaker, by
the strikers Well, IL was received
and filed as an exhibit. Some weeks
after that the miners were putting
in their testimony and a young man
asked him: What is your business.
Answer Newspaper reporter, and l
am a photographer They said to
him Would you look at that and
state what you know about it?'
"He said I will. That man run
ming down there in the street in his
shirt sleeves, | gave dollar to, and
that crowd following him-boys and
men-I gave from twenty-five to fifty
cents apiece to make the picture, be-
cause news was very quiet and l was
gound to do something daughter
and applause)
"But, gentlemen, am asked to say
a word about arbitration. We con-
tinued for five months taking testi-
mony. Everything was heard that
anybody wanted to say, and l believe
that all sides felt the hearing had
been full and fair. We took another
month in Washington to make our
report, and that repor is a matter OF
history. | may say that without un-
duly exaggerating the Importance of
IL. But from that time to this-it was
in 1903-the mining region has practi-
cally lived under the terms of that
award That is a period of some thir.
teen or fourteen years. The award
was to stand for three years, and at
each period of three years there has
been some slight amendment, and il
has been revised, but the spirit Of it,
the general principles upon which il
was founded. have been accepted loyal
ly by the miners without a dissonant
or recalcitrant movement in any
-. Of oil fI, ruf
and the binding character OF the
award.
1T was not a legal award; there
was nothing binding in law, but It was
binding on the good conscience OF that
great mass Of laboring men who stay.
ed there working for their daily bread
and hOnorably submitting themselves
to what they had to submit to from
that time TO this. (Applause)
There is something, my friends
after all in this human nature of our,
upon which we can build for the fu-
ture. There is something that gives
us heart Of hope as we look forward
TO the on-cOming years with all the
omen, all the rumors, and all the dis
quieting reports we hear-that aftei
all, down in the hearts of American
citizens, native-born or naturalized
there Is that strong instinct OF man
hood that, as the Bible says, that whel
they swear 10 their own hurt they vii
keep their promise. That is the kin,
of spirit upon which and on accoun
OF which / look hopefully to the fu
ture, and upon which I think thi
great republic of ours can safely builI
the prosperity and the well-being o
our land. (Applause.)
"Of course. you all recognize that !
there is a controversy between twi
men or 1000 men. or $4,000, Their
was i'm the anthracite region--that
there is 10 be holding out to the bit
ter end, nothing but force and anarch,
and bloodshed, disorder and disdup
ton OF the social tie can be the result
There must be somewhere a chanc
to settle difficulties of that kind, a
they can only be settled by the calm
deliberate hearing and decision Q
men. They may make mistakes, bu
If you take any FIVE or seven Of an
, number OF men from any walk i'm lif
and place the responsibility upon ther
of hearing an important cOntrovers
, between great classes OF their fellow
! citizens, il will be strange, indeed,
Z they do not measure up TO the re
[ sponsibility that is placed upon ther
and conscientiously bring 10 bea
upon the question submitted the hes
; thought and the best wisdom wit
I which Almighty has endowed them.
, "And that is the only way give
+ among men by which controversial
- can be settled. You have your court
( to settle controversies between ind
r. viduals by the municipal law. fo
a have all through life the experienC
J. that you want somebody besides youl
T self to pass upon your own judgmeI
as TO your own rights. No man is
7 good judge in his own cause. Yo
/; are not good good judges in your ow
! cause. The blood gets into your heai
u your anger rises, the fighting spir
comes TO the front, and unless yo
can listen to some quiet and cali