. Review of reviews and world's work . al men. The creature istending somewhat to overshadow the creator. Theworkmen at Homestead had better abandon their in-sane and criminal resort to weapons of violence, anduse the grand weapon that their position as soveregn American freemen gives them. Their remedy is atthe ballot. Organized and unorganized labor shouldpass tlie word along tludr lines to cast no votes forany candidate for tlie legislature or the governorschair who will not i)ledge himself not only in favor ofthe exclusion of Pinkerton mercfmari(is,* but also infavor of a law c()mi)elling
. Review of reviews and world's work . al men. The creature istending somewhat to overshadow the creator. Theworkmen at Homestead had better abandon their in-sane and criminal resort to weapons of violence, anduse the grand weapon that their position as soveregn American freemen gives them. Their remedy is atthe ballot. Organized and unorganized labor shouldpass tlie word along tludr lines to cast no votes forany candidate for tlie legislature or the governorschair who will not i)ledge himself not only in favor ofthe exclusion of Pinkerton mercfmari(is,* but also infavor of a law c()mi)elling large industrial cori)orationsto arbitrate (piestions of difference with their men,and to abide by the results for a year—at the end ofwhich either party may seek and obtain a new arbi-tration. Is this plan revolutionary ? Well, so areprivately supported armies revolutionary, and so areanarchistic outbreaks revolutionary. The fa(;tisthatinasmuch as the huge amalgamations of corporatepower and wealth are a new evolution in our indus-. MR. HENRY C. FRICK,Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company. trial system, and inasmuch as certain phases of theexisting solidarity of workingmens bodies are a newevolution, it is quite time that we should have a cor-responding evolution of the law governing corpora-tions and regulating the relations between capitaland labor. The corporations vnW fight against anynew measures to control them and to make thembetter peace-keepers, and will proclaim vociferouslythat doctrinaire socialists and destructive anarchistsare trjing to despoil them and to take away theirheaven-born right to do as they will with their their argimients will be humbug. Their rightsare to be respected, but they are only earth-bom; u THE RRyiFW OF RE^/EIVS. and they must not he riin coimter to those rights aadinterests of living men that are indeed heaven-bornand inalienable. Let the workingmen quit fightingand go peacefully to their places ; but let them dosome new and ha
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