Evening journal., 1922-09-06

h, will find that Capital Is always the
friend OF Labor. Capitalists are
not always tho friends of laborers,
any more than laborers are always
the friends of capitalists. But though
the capitalist may hate the laborer,
his capital is, in spite OF himself,
more or less the laboring mans
friend. A capitalist invests 500, 900
In erecting a building from which
he hopes to receive six or eight
or ten per cent on his money. Ninety
per cent of that investment goes
directly into the pockets of the men
who burn the brick and cut the
stone and carve the wood and dig
the foundations and paint and fresco
the building. The capitalist NAV
hate the working man but his cap
ital Is nevertheless his friend. |
Great railway corporations are look |
ed upon by some as the enemies OF !
the working people. and yet. wher-
ever a railroad has gone through
the country it has scattered money |
and the working man has been |
benefited. The owners of the rail- |
road may hate him, but they can
not use their capital without en-
ploying and benefiting him in some |
way The loud-mouthed dema- |
sogues who go up and down the |
land asserting that Capital Is the
enemy OF Labor are the enemies of
poth' Labor will never gain anv-
tnlng by denouncing Capital. II
this were understood great stride |
forward would be taken in the set
tlement Of this dispute.
Neither will this contest ne sat
tlea by cynical and unsympatheticl
treatment OF the laboring-classes. A
poor man is just as good as a rich
man The Bible puts special dig
nifty upon labor. The only Per
son in all history who had the
power TO choose his own parentaqe
selected the wife OF a carpenter FOR
MS mother, and put Himself in a
humble social sphere, as the world
calls IT. that He might thus he
brought into intimate relation with
the largest number OF those whom
lie came TO save. He was Himself
carpenter and doubtless worked to
help support the large family of His
struggling parents. He called into
His apostleship humble fishermen.
and the most gifted of His follow
ers was a maker OF tent cloth. A
poor man may be a good man. an
honorable man, a worthy man, and
an arrogant and supercilious atti-
tude on the part OF the rich toward
the poor will never bring about an
adjustment OF this difficulty.
Neither will this angry dispute
ever be settled through violence. |
Heaven pronounces no blessing upon |
murder. To dynamite a shop in |
which strike is in progress means
that all the bricks and stone and
timber will fall back on the head
OF Labor. 1t has been well said.
by one of Americas most dis
tnguished citizens, speaking on this
theme; The torch put to the fac
tories that have discharged work
men for good or bad reasons; OBJ
structions on the rail-track in front ,
OF midnight express trains because
OF the company-these are only hard
blows at American labor, and Grip ,
PIE It's arms and lame its feet and :
pieree its heart. Violence never :
YET took one knot out of the knuckle :
oi toii' or put one farthing of wages
lneo callous palms. Barbarism will ,
never yer cure the ills OF civilization.
me only principle that will effect ;
setuement Of this dispute. that !
VIII be satisfactory alike TO Capltal )
ana Labor and to the world at large
was enunciated nineteen hundred [,
years ago, by the worlds greatest ;
Teacher and Friend Of man, Jesus s
Christ, in His Sermon on the Mounnl