New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

at Berlin, Paris and Monte Carlo.
What / saw in Russia has impressed
my mind with the necessity for CO.
operation between employer and en-
poye. First, Russia had An Extreme
Right under the Car exploiting labor
the Congo. Then we had Kercnsky,
cndeavoring to unite labor and capital
In government Capital was AFRO
gpnt and did not want to let labor
have voice. Kerensky fell. Now
the government is all labor.
Great Forces in Motion
"Great forces arc moving in every
country. / would like to urge my
friends to ponder seriously the prob
lens which ave shall have to meet at
the conclusion Of the war; indeed, per
haps before the war is ended # we
are wise we will prepare for the time,
which should soon come, when Genu
inc capital and genuine labor, if both
arc wise, will be sitting around the
office table and in the halls os Con-
gress settling great questions at issue
between them
1--WE must stop to consider whether
power. SO far as it relates to capital
and labor. too much to paid attorneys.
NO one VIII accuse me Of undertaking
tho usefulness Of lawyers. They can
be used too much, however, and il
there has grown up system of legis-
iation by proxy IN this country then 1T
can and should be ended. With law
yers representing labor and capital in
Congress and in our legislatures both
labor and capital get what might be
termed "the absent treatment" and
that is rot good thing for either.
Many of my friends who are in this
Far West when civilization was being
carved out of the wilderness. They
had no government except as they
made it. We know that miners law,
sometimes reinforced by tho vigilance
committee, was good law. This law
was made by the workinglnen. Our
problems then were partly those that
Russia has to-day, only hers arc a
thousandfold greater.
"Ths men in the Western country
were the makers Of their country. and
It is country Of Which the Rocky
Mountain Club may we'll be proud.
These mon would not have hesitated
very long about extending recognition
and giving the fullest help and SYM
pathy to the workingmen's government
OF Russia, because in 40 and the
years following we had out there Boil
shevik governments made out Of the
raw material, and mighty good gov
ernments, too What happened in
Montana, Colorado, Wyoming. Idaho
and California is now in progress in
probably much greater than ours is in
the making on the other side Of the
world. my friends. and it is such a
republic as the German autocracy can
not have very long next door and sur
vivc. Democratic Russia means demo-
cratic Germany. and democratic Ger
many means peace lasting and COM
plete for the world That is why at
this moment the example Of Russian
democracy finds expression in revo}u-
ton in Austro- Hungary and continu-
Gus agitation in Germany against the
aims Of the German General Staff
No Cause for Alarm
"Do not be alarmed as to the future
of Russia. Some of my newspaper
friends are taking frantic alarm that
the Russian national debt may be re-
pudiated. Well, it hasn't been repu-
dated as yet. and I very much doubt
whether the Russia that is emerging
from TINS turmoil Will, ever repudlatc
any obligation, even though it may
have been incurred in trying to hold
the Gar on his throne. All we need
is a great patience and great fair
ness and a great sympathy. Russia
will soon learn that capital and labor
must go hand in hand. Russia's vast
resources must be developed for The
benefit Of the Russian people. That
will be realized by the Russians quite
as rapidly as we are realizing that the
employers of labor must cooperate
with labor to bring about the best pos
sible results. The freedom of Russia
was as inevitable as the natural laws