Show I PLEADS FOR BETTER BEITER LABOR CONDITIONS Bishop Potter discussed the problem of the citizen clUzen and the consumer in his lecture at Yale on on Wednesday He de declared declared de- de dared that much of ot the responsibility f for r the solution of the problems of labor and capital caplia depends on the consumer i and is 19 governed go by the law of and demand He said in part The workingman of today is the slave of ot the machine He follows it allday all allday allday day long in inexorable routine and gets in its way as It drives onward in its Inexorable fury it may kill him As Asne we ne look at th the the- pace we recognize that it Is la Impossible to drive ourselves at this pace We find in the task the destruction tion of the forces of ot life itself Inthe mines and waterways we find m J. J M t men who Pave have never seen their em- em And a as you OU try to touch one of W Ih your own you ou have havea a n. sort BOn x tt start for you cannot but vegar Nl hint him J as a. a amere mere cog cos in the great f commerce D cie a and f so they lr say that some lives must be sacrificed In the coal hole bole hole ln in weaving at the tool that the great column of commerce must move on You may fall call all the theories theories the the- ories ones by what name you will will they they are of ot the devil of Consumers These conditions have been to some extent amended by the command of ot law But Tight rIght here comes in the tha re responsibility responsibility re- re of ot the consumer It is a question whether we ought to encourage encourage age ase the production of ot goods with In Indifference Indifference In- In difference to the infamous methods of their production But w when en the question of 1 shortening the hours of labor and similar demands I Iare are talked of we hear some complain They say that the demands of labor threaten to overthrow throw the whole foundation foundation foundation foun foun- dation of ot our commercial system And they want to brush them aside I tell you w wj must not brush them aside There is Ia a limit to the reduction of or orthe the time of ot labor which might be dangerous dangerous dan dan- but these things thinS's must be considered considered con con- and studied out with intelligent intelli- intelli gent knowledge w o of all 11 the facts and g conditions ili which fh w we have a en not cJ now at hand Moral Q Question tion Considered But It is not only of the body and and A mind of the workingman that we must I concern ourselves It is the moral aspects as as- pacts peets of his condition It is history that t the laboring communities tI tIan the cf promiscuous herding together of men an and women In tainted and degraded in intimacy intimacy In- In without I regard fegard to sanitary fJ rit z conditions n and with a wholly hO un unlicensed unlicensed un- un licensed prevalence of ot Intemperance has had a demoralizing effect And al in cases where the model g l towns were established It has been found that character was not formed entirely entire entire- ly by environment r It has been found n ngin that if we uplift the he soul we must u begin begin be be- gin with the man and not with his home We must awake In him the love of or right and decency and without that we can build a host of ot model villages and accomplish nothing 1 I have heard it said of f one of the nai J called so-called ft model towns for o workingmen I that the men never looked at the man I who had created the village It was his not theirs and often otten mistaking his tastes for tor conviction the people w were re not satisfied and revolted against the rules Th n that man said sald that the ini e sf were ungrateful grumblers We must realize that the workingman wants fair play As one of them said the other day In the settlement settlement settlement set set- of or a labor difficulty Dont give us too much coddling |