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JOHN N. JEWETT.

faithful exercise of which the essential rights and liberties of the people are dependent.

Philosophize over, sympathize with, christianize and civ ilize, if you can, that mass of human weaknesses, which everywhere composes the body of citizenship; use all appropriate means, at public expense, to improve their condition and to elevate that condition to a higher level, gradually and without destroying it; but do not forget that the men who organize it for aggressive purposes are trying to aggrandize themselves by an upheaval of the social and civil relations, which the experience of centuries has pronounced beneficent as well as necessary, and to establish in place of our government, defective in its administration though it may be, a government in which ignorance, stupidity and superstition, combined under cunning and tactful leadership, will be the controlling forces. There is as much of honesty and humanity in the highest as there is in the lower or lowest grades of social life. There is more; otherwise, all systems of edu cation are failures, and humanity should be left to drift backwards into ignorance and barbarism. And yet it is ignorance, stupidity and barbarism, or rather, perhaps, a combination of them, under special leadership, and massed together as an aggressive force through labor combinations, that are seeking to dominate the essential industries and enterprises of the nation. Socialists and anarchists may proclaim against this view of the present governmental situation; but the fact remains undisturbed. It is a legacy of experience. Turn the roots to the surface and the tree is dead. Reverse the order of civil control and civil government, as such, is destroyed. In saying this I do not mean that civil government may neglect or fail in its protection of all or any of the rights or liberties which are guaranteed to its constituents, however they may be designated. In matters pertaining to civil society and civil government sympathy can never be recognized as a controlling force. The

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writ of injunction as a governmental process, belonging exclusively to the judicial department, is a writ of justice for all, and not a writ of sympathy for any, and to execute justice is the highest office of civil government.

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MURRAY F. TULEY.

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COMPULSORY ARBITRATION:

IS IT PRACTICAL OR ADVISABLE?

MURRAY F. TULEY, OF CHICAGO.

I approach the discussion of the subject of this address with much diffidence and misgiving as to my ability to interest the gentlemen of the legal profession, many of whom have given more consideration than I have to the question of the remedy, if any, for the deplorable relations existing between labor and capital. We seldom pick up a newspaper without seeing an account of a new strike of workmen, or a lockout by the master.

It has been contended that wars and catastrophes like those of famine and volcanic eruptions, resulting in the wholesale destruction of human life are beneficial in that they prevent the overpopulation of the earth, and a like argument might be indulged in concerning labor conflicts; that they prevent overproduction, but the victims that suffer are not likely to appreciate the force of that argument.

General Sherman depicted all the horrors of war in the euphemism "war is hell." A strike or lockout is industrial war, and is a war which often is more calamitous than a war between nations.

As civilization has advanced, the great study of statesmen, economists and lovers of humanity, has been to devise

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