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Show B LOOKING FOR A REMEDY. B e JVe SUSgest that the state Mlne Inspector be fl ml 6nl1arged Powers, when the Legislature B maul Qg n" We suggest that he b required to B nf monthly reports to be published. Not only B hou ti0011?"011 f the mlnes' bnt also of 0e B of tho f ? GrS WOPk' thelr wages' the character B "Q food supplied them when they board a the company's boarding house; of the comparative prices of goods sold by corpuration stores, in short, all important particulars pertaining to the mine and the miners' surroundings. v It may be said that the only business of the inspector is to see to the condition of the mines, but in doing that he can better than anyone else find out the situation, whethe? men are satisfied and if not what their causes of complaint are. With such a report pubjished once a month, public opinion would compel justice. The best thoughts of men just now are upon the question of the difference between labor and capital and what the remedy is to be. We can imagine no feasible plan, except through the courts. We think there will have to be a special court organized in every state and given specific laws for Its guidance, such laws as will be just alike to employer and employee, and there must be elasticity enough in the procedures of the court to wach and bring out all the facts in any given case and then to enforce en-force its decrees. If trial establishes that the laws are inadequate or over exacting, then they must be revised and amended, until they will fairly meet all differences and supply remedies for them. The differences between enlightened and barbarous barbar-ous nations is the difference between enlightened and tyrannical laws. Ours is supposed to be an enlightened nation., |