Show 0 THE LABOR QUESTION q THERE is that about the labor troubles which is radically wrong As business u ess principles go a capitalist has a right richt employ whom he chooses to do what work be chooses whenever tie lie chooses and aad the remuneration is a matter that should be agreed upon beat be tween the parties immediately cou berned As soon as laboring men combine and presume to dictate the class ia men mea the employer shall engage and force the acceptance of their rules up on the wage payer they do that which is opposed to business principles and commedia rights as they are understood today to day there can be noth liag in men combining for mutual protection but it Is a fact that out f from adeee organ izat lons ions grow many imperfections imperfection tae be effects ot 01 which are felt most keenly perhaps by those to whom their existence is due strikes follow a ref refusal of the employer to accede to the demands of the employed whether or unjust is a matter not here under discussion and the result of strikes is not only disastrous to the strikers and injurious to the employer but they work evil in manifold maul told directions causing those who have given no offense to suffer affer W in a degree decree with the guilty so closely are all the concerns ut of life related relate we find the great voice of the people who suffer almost silent because they feel that in some deep sense so deep they hey cannot comprehend their follows fellows workers in different fields of labor ar are fighting flEch ting la in some indistinct way a oattie attle attie on 64 the issue of which bangs much for them and ana the suffering heart is dum damu jt t speaks no unkindly word even events to those who have brought an immediate and quickened pang to but from those who s after bufter least if at a t all a cry noes goes up that the strikers I 1 are stagnating business and involving untold numbers in suffering erint because of a desire of the laborer to enforce his ideas upon those these who are unwilling to td accept them and up from a thousand I 1 throats from the ranks of the stomach full geddry and other parasites from newspapers ers clergy and business men arises age the cry that labor organizations when they endeavor to make their ideas eft effective etive by compelling acquiescence es are JI illegal legal this may be good law aw but declaring such organizations illegal does not solve the grave arave lenici ems which the labor troubles of this age present it does not touch t them hein but look at it in another light we find that tiffany co the great silversmith ver smith sedith company of new york together with other wealthy silversmiths have organized to enforce their peculiar ideas upon the class of men they employ and it islade is made almost il a que tion ot of life with the employed whether he accepts the conditions these anese wealth y ones propose hb be shall consent to adopt these silversmiths flatly refuse to employ any man who belongs to a union he may believe it proper fot for him to unite with others ethers of Ws his kind to resist the encroachments encroach ments of capital upon their rights as men caen and workers but if he insists blatson on making that belief effective by joining a union he may have his belief and starvation so far as these wealthy ones are concerned yet we heat beacno no business busin sas man no minister no newspaper denouncing this combination and determination by wealth as illegal though ua its effects alre are as aa far reaching as can be those caused by strikers for always where men once producer to produce the consequences quen ces arise from whatever source they may are felt through all business veip veins and in au an infinitude of ways that are imperceptible even to the keen business sense there is this point of difference between the two cases which superficially seems favorable to the capitalist while the laboring man main en dealores dea vores to compel compe lall all in his bis line to join him and refuses to permit tose those who wish to work to do so the do not attempt to coerce others other a but the principle pria ciple is thi tha same sarae eich each to so far as it has bas the power enforces its ideas and there remains after all this difference in faver of the he working man he certainly has ha grave pause cause lor for complaint though he may pursue wrong methods 19 secure redress while for these silversmiths it to is merely a matter of convenience business convenience nay less even than that for orthey they declare rather than employ union men their customers might wait to t all eternity for the jhb fulfilling ot 0 orders for silverware this means that every laboring man hanif it true to his belief in the efficacy 1 of I labor unions my afi birve and that the consequential harm to others may flow through any number of channels and work as inu much ch mischief as it will 4 it would take n exceedingly keen percept lou to see bee where the first corn com vi astion is illegal and the second lawful admitting all tha ext my may be clamped against the excessive excess eive ivo use ol of power by labor organizations they y cannot t work more MOM surely for the destruction of manhood and integrity than the tae wealthy new mew york silver smitha are accomplishing in their attempts to till kill out a deep rooted belief among those they employ disaster mut follow the loss of manhood produced by whatever process it MILY may |