PROPER PATRIOTISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 18, 20 September 1915, Page 4

PROPER PATRIOTISM.

Tin 1 strike of seamen and firemen on the Huddart-Parker steamer Victoria lias, fortunately, been amicably settled, but not until the public bad been seriously inconvenienced by the holding up of the vessel lor the better part of the week. Commenting on the lamentable occurrence Shipping and Commerce says;—Commercially the incident has not entailed any verv grave consequences, but it has a greater import at the moment than appears on the face of it. The time is emphatically not one for the ventilation of industrial grievances, unless they should happen'to be of an unbearable character. The Arbitration Court has already announced its intention to sternly discountenance the revision of any awards that may come before it. lydess extreme injustice.!

could be shown, and this eminently proper decision will be adhered to until such time sis the war is glided and an honorable peace is declared. Statesmen at Home, in all branches of politics ami in all ranks of life, are urging industrial classes to refraiil from precipitating disputes until this time. shall have arrived, and there can be no question that this is the' spirit 01, proper patriotism. We are passing through a national crisis which demands imperatively that Labor—and Capital should walk amicably hand in .hand. Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience ol ; ,1| fortunes and all feelings that a great natural character is created.