The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-03
Mr., Wells To Mrs. Coulter.

Editor World | wish to reply tu
! Mrs toulterls letter In which she
asks me to come out and show my
c0lors To begin with, let me say
that my Colots are the stars ana
stripes As for capital and labor
let me say plainly that | have NO
quarrel with either OF them | have
raised my voice IN reference to this
subject merely for the purpose OF
| pointing out To those persons who
have been talking labor against cup,.
tai and capital against labor, that II
/ they Keep on pointing the stick a.
one or the other then they can ac-
lcomplish no good. | offended ia
point out that there TX wrong on both
sides as well as right on both sides,
No person with the interests OF this
country truly al heart can reasonably
Iafford to take sides where by doing
II thing which In right he viii also
| be giving aid to thing which ls
wrong. In one point one is right. In
another point the other Is right |
ask you. will ono wrong right an
| other wrong
Suppose you hang bunch ~ labor
leaders, would that tame the rank
and file? You say that the leaders
are hopeless and YOU express con
I
understand that the leaders were put
there by the rank and nle. and the
great principle of unIonism is tina; II
YOU hit one you hit all, Now | also
understand that these principles OF
solidarity apply To some extent to the
other side. Continue the quarrel and
where will II land In battle, OF
course In every civilization the
same fight has developed. and when
one side was about TO win, then IN
came a third party and drove both
out In almost every battle labor
has played n winning hand until the
third party entered and took the
field II you trouble your own house
you shall inherit the winds. Labor
and capital made trouble IN their
own house.
Ancient Egypt had this same
trouble and when the fight was on,
men from the East stepped in Rt the
invitation and consent ot tho en-
.ployers. and Joined hands with the
negroes Suntc ut ths employers got
away with their lives and went wes'
and north Egypt AZ length became
A land OF The Ethiopian mixed
race. lighter than the black ana
darker than the white, fallen from
civilization Home went the same
road. the third party came In. Ia
fact. most ot Il Was already In and
simply waiting FOR the clash And
when tho fan came, the employers
Of Rome who were able TO. got away
went west into Spain. into France and
into England In our own Civil war
it was - rght between capital and
labor II we can believe the words
ot Abraham Lincoln. who wrote Of
these factions. labor was not or
ganircd hut capital was.
The labor ~ the north. through
their sympathy Tor the labor OF the
south. took sides In that question.
went into battle. with the result tha'
nearly million American men were
Killed In war of sympathy sym
pathy Ia now being expressed FOR
those on one sitc OF the other IN this
labor controversy sympathy Is "A
strong factor. and capital has grea;
uoNCr. but neither is strong enough
nor numerous enough 30 afford a
battle At thlS time. tpr We see the
third party nov waiting Ia step IN
lana dcVour 80 soon as the contestants
recomc exhausted Two million
: Urlenisls are now standing upon the