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Show FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL GOiffiOl By Peter Radford. The recent investigation of the United States Commission of Industrial Indus-trial Relations brought together the extremes of society and has given the public an opportunity tq view the rep. resentatives of distinct . classes, side by side, and to study their views in parallel columns. Capital and labor have always been glaring at each other over gulfs of misunderstanding and if the Federal Industrial Commission attempts to bridge the chasm, it will render the public a distinct service. The farmer has been sitting on the fence watching capital and labor fight for many years and incidentally furnishing furn-ishing the sinews of war and it is quite gratifying to find them talking with, instead of about, each other. When honest men smile and look into each other's souls, it always makes the world better and far more satisfactory satis-factory to the farmer, who in tho end, bears the burden of conflict, than resolutions, speeches or pamphlets containing charges and countercharges. counter-charges. The love for justice makes the whole world kin. Understanding is an arbiter far more powerful than the mandates of government, for there is no authority quite so commanding as an honest conscience; there is no decree de-cree quite so binding as that of the Supreme Court of Common Sense and no sheriff can keep the peace quite so perfect as Understanding. We suppose the time will never come when capital and labor will not be occasionally blinded by the lightning light-ning flashes of avarice or frightened by the thunder peals of discontent. But Understanding is a Prince of j Peace that ever holds out the olive branch to men who want to do right. A man's income is always a sacred thing for in it are the hope, ambition and opportunity of himself, and family, fam-ily, but there is nothing in a human heart quite so divine as Justice and Understanding is its handmaidea. |