Show NO SoL SOLUTION urioN tue THE labor agitation has become a chronic national disease the subjugation of its more turbulent and destructive tive phases is becoming a more and more serious question thoughtful people are casting abbitt for the means oi of solution but cannot find it the application of force is not i curative it merely tends to temporary suppression the malady gaining a greater hold on the system in the interims inte rims of quiet to break out again with more violence thau than ever arbitration merely operates as a sort of soothing syrup without curing giving temporary relief but leading to still more unsatisfactory results the main hope seems to be in the male majesty s t V ot of the law law maintained by enforcement in the courts this reliance is about as chimerical as the other sources of supposed strength many of the leading judicial positions in the states are elective and the labor organizations will soon have an overwhelming preponderance of votes so great are their numbers that they will soon be able to gain possession of the jury boxes in fact what is to hinder them as the agitation progresses step by step from ultimately being in absolute control of the legal and judicial machinery if the rock springs tragedy when taken into the courts can be taken as a sample of how so important a power would be used under such circumstances the situation would be in the extreme yet such a condition is fast gliding from the region of the possible to the probable the labor question is one of the leading questions of the country and the man who could offer a method whose application li would be successful in solving cg it would be a national benefactor |