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ion not of attacks upon corporations as such nor up- 

 on unions as such ; for some of the most far-reaching 

 beneficent work for our people has been accomplished 

 through both corporations and unions. Each must 

 refrain from arbitrary or tyrannous interference 

 with the rights of others. Organized capital and 

 organized labor alike should remember that in the 

 long run the interest of each must be brought into 

 harmony with the interest of the general public ; and 

 the conduct of each must conform to the fundamen- 

 tal rules of obedience to the law, of individual free- 

 dom, and of justice and fair dealing toward all. Each 

 should remember that in addition to power it must 

 strive after the realization of healthy, lofty, and gen- 

 erous ideals. Every employer, ever wage-worker, 

 must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as 

 he likes with his property or his labor so long as he 

 does not infringe upon the rights of others. It is 

 of the highest importance that employer and em- 

 ployee alike should endeavor to appreciate each the 

 viewpoint of the other and the sure disaster that will 

 come upon both in the long run if either grows to 

 take as habitual an attitude of sour hostility and dis- 

 trust toward the other. Few people deserve better 

 of the country than those representatives both of 

 capital and labor and there are many such who 

 work continually to bring about a good understand- 

 ing of this kind, based upon wisdom and upon broad 

 and kindly sympathy between employers and em- 

 ployed. Above all, we need to remember that any 

 kind of class animosity in the political world is, if 



