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Show TK HAT THKM AS tnt'.VLS. William K. Gladstoxk speaking in London on Saturday on the labor and social problem, appealed to everybody "to give workers, besides an increase ol wages aud a decrease of hours, a sense of common feeling with their employers, em-ployers, to establish the brotherhood of man and to look to the heart and conscience con-science as well as the appetite and ambition am-bition for a solution of these difficulties." difficul-ties." And we believe that no truer doctrine was ever preached nor uo more logical appeal ever made. For it Las not been the rule with employers, when they had a difference with their J employes, to treat them as reasoning human beings having certain rights which everybody ought to recognize aud respect. This lack of sympathy Las prevailed so long that the man who toils has become to distrust his employer em-ployer .nid to believe that no .sense of right ever actuates him. There is no reason why ihis lack of concord should prevail, and it would uot it Gladstone's Glad-stone's advice was followed. There is not one strike or diliiculty in a hundred hun-dred between employer and employe which could uot be avoided if the former for-mer would treat the latter as an equal! atul reason the matter out with him, always, of course, providing that the oay lover possesses a human heart and an honest purpose to do the square thing, and is desirous of following the teachings of the golden rule. |