Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — HARRISON AT PHILADELPHIA. [ARTICLE]

HARRISON AT PHILADELPHIA.

Ex-PreSldent Harrison delivered an addross at tho commencement exercises of the Pierce Business College, Philadelphia, Wednesday evening. The spoech was especially to young men. but incidentally trusts, the labor question, lynchings, relations of employer and employe, and the dangers of combines were discussed. Of strikes and labor agitation generally the speaker said: It is a sad and dangerous fact that capital aud labor are organized to fight each other; that tho laboring man is taught to regard his employer as an antagonist—too often as an enemy—-and that the greedy or vexed and impatient omployer, resentful of what he regards an unwarranted interference with his business, is sometimes too ready to treat a workman with a grievance as be would treat a jolting, unbalanced machine—-throw it Into the scrap pile. Concerning trusts Mr. Harrison said: The restraint of trusts, and combines, and corners, by which some particular article of commerce is monopolized, either permanently or for a timo, is another obvlons nnd urgent duty. They unsettle that fair balance of things, that equality of opportunities which must be preserved If the poor aro to be content and the rich secure. But neither is this tho work of thoughtless'passion. What is done should he done with discrimination, calmness and justice. The address was concluded with a vigorous condemnation of lynchings, which the speaker characterized as a shame to our civilization. Thursday night the exPresident was tho guest of the Union League.