Show I I I I 0 SELViSH ESS t B By 1 L. L A. A A A. Hollenbeck ck a aYou You will wili hear orators awl ana declaim 1 l a against aln t. t selfishness ss But Dut selfishness is right Self preservation preservation tion is the first law of ot n nature ture That does not ot Imply avarice U- U l neon neos miserliness Is is noted not nOL ed cd in do Y le e child at a at a very r ea early y a age e It is not hOt acq acquired red It Is and cud therefore therefore there there- fore fOle it itis is a part Vart of th the h human n mind minda a a sensibility and therefore natural r al and good and right I II railroad rare fare T employees selfish elfish and have t told the the railroad board boar t that th the wages wages of lif the locomotive eqi engineers en Hi I and others must be p paid id whether wh ther the the roads loads were m making g enough to pay them or not The fellows who own the tha road dont don't mat m t. t ter They can pay pay the countr country's s 's taxes a and d get no rio interest on their investment invest ment and it is all the same same to the thelo lo locomotive engineers They must have haw I their pound lOund of flesh regardless s orthe or ot the other fellow But the locomotive locomotive i tive engineers have invested hea heavily n in West Vest Virginia coal mines and they could not make malce any arty dividends with with- out out employing union non-union miners so they employed them and cut the unIon union union un un- un ion wages and paid the scabs a aless aless' aless aless' aless less less' wage That hit bit the United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers Yorkers another big union backed 1 by the Amer American can Federation of La bor and it it seems rs that the United Mine ine Workers Yorkers are also engaged in big business business' and are employing labor and are also getting by by employIng employing employing employ employ- i ing seal scat labor and it has caused 1 a big scandal in the union labor world and the pot Is calling the kettle kettle ket tle tIe black It makes malu s the independent element laugh In these I bl big unions there are bound to be men rnea of big ideas who have ambition and who want to get ahead in the world and that puts a lot of ot ambitious men within the unions who wino have the natural selfishness to tb rise and amI to prosper The proof t comes conies up UI to o them in a forcible manner that capital and big brains must be paid and that the unions' unions must submit to the Irresistible ble law of a square deal to ever- ever body The unions have refused to let a disinterested party settle settle their differences with the employer They said they couldn't trust a third part party party par par- t ty mined determined to have have i it just their own way and no other Tl That at is an all excess of s selfishness and therefore is wrong Selfishness is right the tIie excess ss is wrong and the unions ar are running up against a law of nature and they are being taught some good wholesome lessons lessons' by their theli own conduct Nature is infinity and it makes no up difference di rence hi in what whatfield whatfield no field ct you OU turn turns nature is always accurate accurate accurate ac ac- persistent although although its of- of ef effects curate j p persistent a are times e times times perv perverted for foi awhile bV bf by conflict accidental or mental ment I and nd big g business business' federations federations' b both succeed occasionally occasional Occasional- ly 13 in arl sUng b a diverting the l natural nat nat- lt- lt ural oral l la laws laws' i of trade trad and of of political economy ll and scholars will discuss learnedly the tho reasons for certain things that nature persists In performing per per- forming Karl Max lax is a notable example of ot reasoning against natural laws ot of re reasoning all around a point and not seeing the point So with the labor have become become be be- federations and since they come como employers ers themselves and got into a war with themselves it may maybe maybe maybe be that the they will be he able in III ti time ne to discover that their troubles should be left leCt to a disinterested court the same as all other disputes 0 |