Evening journal., 1921-01-20
capital IS LABoR's H0PE-LsBoR is CAPITALS
HOPE"


CHANcELLoR JAMES n. DAY. OF Syracuse University,
u has written an interesting letter the labor sit
uaton to the New York Times in which he says:
The editorial doctrine OF great New York paper that
the ant-strike law compels man TO do honest work
against his will. is nothing than silly. There is no
sound in H. The proposed law does not force any
man to work. II only provides against conspiracy OF
workngmen to prevent work by anybody The character
or strike Is in destruction OF property assaults anu
murders The strike stands for everything which america
opposes II is violent II is riot 1t opposes liberty u
is dangerous TO life by exciting men to unrestraned ana
dangerous passions II takes control OF properties u
lawfully and forces loss into business iorDidans con
sructon and manufacture u destroys credit IN tade
and reduces the profits from which wage Is paid.
No one would object II dissatisfied men were to leave
Job and go quietly away another leaving those salts
fed remain and work the employer to hire whom
he peascs That is every mans privilege Il is differ
ent from the conspiracy strike which violates every
right and privilege and which should be forbidden
Our American worknemen, greatest in numbers found
In all caings, dependable in all things are our greatest
citizens They forget that they are citizens
They must not forget that the capitalists are ctzens aso
and without them the fires would go out under the boier
and the wheels would not turn an hour The laDor agi-
ator who assas capitalists and makes laborers ms
enemies fool among men and traitor 70 the country
and to the workingman whom he betrays for demagoglc
purposes.
True Americans will work together for good citizen
ship, good business, good wages and good fellowship
One OF the great crimes Of this country is TO create
classes among the quiet working people by setting up
conditions each against the other as an arbitrary pan
out OF which prospcrs and the other suffers m
equality is law Of God and Is traceable through inc
whole universe over 10 the two men born in the nrsJ
generation quarreled and killed the other. IL has
gone on ever since and will continue until men are made
Of pattern the uniformity Then would not last
week The great adaptation; how to get along WIN
what one has in the circumstances in which he is placed
is the practical question.
| We may emulate but not envy; may contend, but
moi be contentious The field Is open our progress is
not by taking from another what belongs TO him, but by
adding TO Il all The high purpose OF life Is to add to the
common good, remembering that we are the common
How does the workingman feel about capital when he
himself becomes capitalist Are not the instincts OF
laborer TO be capitalist? That is what the savings Danh
means He Is mol a worthy worklngman VINO does MOI
work to the end OF making capital to work for himself
whether hundreds thousands OF dollars IL Is pern-
cous TO teach that the only moral virtue IS poverty On,
can be great he poor be good and noDe ana
be poor but one can neither by being poor II Is now
a man handles poverty riches that makes him Wha'
he is -,
cannot look upon the agator Of workngmen as other
than the enemy to them and their country cannot ne
llieve that the apostle was unfriendy to workingner
when he urged them TO be content in whatever estate
they we're The way out OF less estate into better
one is by mems efforts and their hope IS that ouer'
arc In better estates than they Inc hope OF country
is in It's workngmen united In solid compact WIN l
business men-s by the investment or inc lntelllgeh
lahor's muscle with the capitalists money The extreme
folly is in setting them apart and in creating an ahas
onsm between them
Capiial is labor's hope Labor is capitals hope. The
two cannot separate; neither one can go alone
There is much good food thought FOR Delawareans
in that letter no matter what their calngs may be The
letter is so plain in its statements that no Intelligent
Deawarean can profess honestly not to understand them
They arc good mental food easy Of digestion and as
smilation