Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-12

the traces will have to be put in a
corral.
Now to stand together means
that nobody must interrupt the proc
esses OF our energy, If the Interrupt
ton can possibly be avoided without
the absolute invasion of freedom. To
put 1t concretely. that means this:
Nobody his right to stop the proc
esses of labor until all the methods
of conciliation and settlement have
been exhausted; and | might as well
say right here that 1 am not talking
to you alone. You sometimes stop
the courses of labor, but there are
others who do the same. And | be-
lieVe that l am speaking of my own
experience not only but of the eXpe-
rience of others when / say that you
are reasonable in a larger number of
cases than the capitalists.
Would Clear Atmosphere
Il am not saying these things to
them personally yet, because l have
, not had a chance. But they have to
be said not in any spirit of criticism
because l would like to see all the
critics exported. But in order to
clean the atmosphere and come down
to business. everybody on both sides
/ has got to transact business and the
| settlement is never impossible when
| both sides want to do the square and
right things. Moreover, a settlement
| is always hard to avoid when the
parties can be brought face to face.
l can differ with a man much more
radically when he isn't in the room
than l can when he is in the room.
because then the awkward thing is
that he can come back at ma and
answer what l say. 1t is always dan
gerous for a man to have the floor
! entirely to himself. And therefore
1--we must insist in every instance that
the parties come into each others
presence and there discuss the issues
| between them. and not separately in
places which have no communication
with each other.
Il always like to remind myself or
delightful saying of an English
man of a past generation. Charles
Lamb. He was with a group of
friends and he spoke very harshly of
some man who was not present.
ought to sey that Lamb suffered
little bit. And one of his friends
said. Charles, l didn't know
that you knew So-and-so."
"'Oh.' he said, L don't. can't hate
man l know
All of Same Clay
There is a great deal of human
nature, of very pleasant human ma
ture, in that saying. 1t is hard to
hate a man you know. L must admit
parenthetically that there are some
politicians whose methods / do not
at all believe in, but they are jolly
good fellows and if they only would
not talk the wrong kind of politics
with me, | would love to be with
them. And so 1t is all along the
line in serious matters and things
less serious. We are all of the same
clay and spirit and we can get to-
gether if we desire to get together.
Therefore, my counsel to you is this:
Let us show ourselves Americans by
showing that we do not want to go
off in separate camps or groups by
ourselves but that we want to CO.
operate with all other classes and
all other groups in common enter
prise, which is to release the spirits
of the world from bondage.
Test of an American
II would be willing to set that up
as the final test of an American. That
ic the meaning of democracy. / have
been very much distressed. my fellow
citizens, by some of the things that
have happened recently. The mob
spirit is displaying itself here and
there is in this country. / have SYM
pathy with what some men are say
ing, but have no sympathy with the
men that take their punishment into
their own hands; and l want to say
to every man who does join such
mob that L do not recognize him as
worthy of the free institutions of the
United States. There are some or
ganizations in this country whose OBJ
lect is anarchy and the destruction
of law, but / would not meet their
efforts by making myself partner
in ..S;troying the law. L despIse and
hate their purposes as much as any
man but l respect the ancient proc
esses of justice and L would be too
proud not to see them done justice
however wrong they are. And so /
want to utter my earnest protest
against any manifestation of the
spirit of lawlessness anywhere or in
any cause.
What Democracy Means
why, gentlemen, look what ii
means. We claim to be the greatest
democratic people in the world, and
democracy means, first of all, that
we can govern ourselves. IL our men
have not self-control then they are
not capable of thatNgreat thing which
we call democratic government. A
man who takes the law into his
hands is not the right man to coop
crate in any form or department OF
| law. And some of the processes by
| which the struggle between capital
and labor is carried on are processes
! that come very near to taking the
law into your own hands. 1 do not
! mean for a moment to compare them
with what | have just been speaking
| OF, but l want you to see that they
| are mere graduations of the manifes-
tations of the unwillingness to CO.
! operate and the fundamental lesson
| of the whole situation is that we
must not only take common counsel
| but that we must yield to and obey
| &C mmon counsel. Not all of the in
strumentallties may be organized by
which we can see to it that various
! things, that are now going on shall
not go on.
Various Processes
( There are various processes OF
| the dilution of labor and the unneL-
cssary substantitution of labor and
l!Gding in distant markets and un-
fairly upsetting the whole competi-
ton of labor which ought not to go
on-I mean now on the part of em-
ployes-and we must interject into
this some fundamentally of coop
Grafton by which the fair thing VIII
be done all around. | am hopeful
| that some such instrumentalities may
be devised. but whether they are or
| not, we must use those that we have,
and upon every occasion where 1t is
necessary to have such an lnstru-