The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-13

! God Himself, over 1,400 years before
. the coming OF the Savior. They were
the lights Of humanity and progress;
reaffirmed by tile Savior Jesus Christ
with the Gospels, the Ten Command
ments have been the beacons OF the
ages and let me say to the irreverent
and the scoffer, to the propounder OF
every ism and movement destruc-
tive Of religion, that as these COM
mandments have been the lights of
the ages of the past they will still
be burning through all the ages Of
| the future"
Labor and Capital.
In the beginning Of his discussion
of the relations OF labor and capital,
Mr. Collins said:
! Labor insists on the principle OF
rights, but 1t recognizes the fact that
rights and duties go hand in hand
and 1t stands for the recognition Of
duties as we'll as the insistence on
rights.
! Labor believes that capital has q
legitimate function in society and
+ that it also has rights and duties and
that in the furtherance of the pro-
gress of humanity, society and in
dustry. labor and capital should sit
around the conference table and
enter into amicable relations and
just agreements to aid in the solu-
ton of great social questions"
Pope L.o's EncycIicaI.
Mr. Collins quoted from the great
encyclical on labor issued by Pore
Leo XIII, in which he said "onlJ in
the happiness and contentment Of the
workers is the advancement Of civil
lization made possible" and in urg-
ing as fundamental condition Of the
solution of the difficulties between
labor and capital the establishment
of the living wage, Mr.. Collins again
quoted from Pope Leo's encyclical
there is a dictate Of nature more
i'm perious and more ancient than any
bargain between man and man, name
ly, that the remuneration must be
sufficient to support the wage Garner
himself, his wife and his children)
in reasonable and frugal comfort.
II through necessity or fear of
worse evil the workmen accepts hard
or conditions because an employer or
contractor will AFFORD him no better,
he is made the victim Of force and
injustice.
1.-THE living wage must be enough
to properly feed, clothe and shelter
the worker AMI his family; to pro-
vide more than the necessaries of
life: to provide for insurance against
sickness, accident, old age and death
and to provide for emergencies; to
give him sufficient SO that he can
save enough to buy a little home so
that he and his family will not be
dependent on either public or private
charity"
Mr.. Collins pointed out most fore
IDLY and eloquentiy the evils Of child
labor and quoted again from Pope
Leo's encyclical as follows:
Child Labor.
And in regard to children, great
care should be taken not to place
them In work shops and factories I'M
til their bodies and minds are sufTi-
GENTLY developed. For just as very
rough weather destroys the buds Of
spring so does too early an expert
ence Of life's hard toll blight the
young promise of a child's faculties
and render any true education fmpos-
sible"
Mr.. Collins discussed the evils of
unemployment and urged sound and
practical remedies for their ameliora-
ton, chief among which was the es-
Enlistment of free employment by
the state governments and the ma
tional government
In discussing the great question of
the establishment Of wholesome and
sanitary conditions for working peo-
pie and the safe guarding Of the
lives of working men by the require
ment of safe guards for machinery
and sanitary conditions under which