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Show TO LESSEN STRIKS. Something that would be a great remedy for strikes is not much thought about, though a mighty object lesson was supplied to the people of this country four years ago. There suddenly came a call for volunteers to go out and uphold the flag in the cause of human liberty. Every discordant voice was hushed in a moment, while a few days later the measured tread of the citizen citi-zen soldiery, from every State, marching to a common center, made the most impressive sound that ever arose from the earth and echoed back from the sky. The patriotism of the nation was aroused and in the hearing of that call for soldiers, sol-diers, men forgot the lesser trials that fretted them. It would not be much for those great eastern corporations who employ hundreds of men, many of them foreign born, and possessing only a limited limit-ed impression of what our free institutions mean to the poor; it would not be much, we repeat, for them to establish public halls in centers where the operatives congregate, and every night and every day have some gifted men familiar with the languages spoken by the workingmen and women, 1 HE f "' give brief illustrated lessons on the structure o , l our Government in contrast with the other Gov- if j ernments of the earth and close these lessons by b brief lectures intended to impress the audiences. . ' '"H that the strength of our system of Government 1 , 1 ' 1 lays in the patriotism and intelligence of the units r I, H which make up the masses of the people, that the fM blessings of the country are a trust which the peo- 1 pie must administer upon from day to day; that j. l pH wise laws arc no safeguard unless made safe by h' the intelligent public opinion of all the people; ' J j that the ballot is the only protection that our 1 j ' H country's institutions have unless an appeal is 1 ' made to the shotted gun and bayonet; that this g j " mighty inheritance must be transmitted; that ev- , "JB ery laboring man's vote counts for as much as 1 1 r j M does that of Theodore Roosevelt or Grover Cleve- if 1 TtH land; that the humblest man's opinion helps to IP. I ) jj make up the opinion of the country; that the great , !1J consensus of opinion is always right when it is the t$, 1 Sifl honest and intelligent opinion of the people, and ti t ,V that the highest thought of every American should I sr ' I 1 j be worthy the Government of which he is a part lir f n ( H and of the flag above him, which is the highest ic " t I symbol of liberty and justice that ever was vouch- ra y! H safed to mankind. 1m' $ H The above is but an outline of what should litl i( gH be. The effect of such an experiment would int'' ''' i M soon be apparent in an advanced moral tone I I I''fiM among the operatives; m a little time they would t ' $ I i?fl be discussing what they had heard the night be- 1 i h4jM fore, gradually the feeling would take possession 1 f 1Mi$M of them that a sense of duty to do right was upon 1 j ai&ilJM them, for their own and their children's sakes: 1 3 3 WU pM that while their toil might be hard, still all the I iHllMM country's opportunities were open to them and 1 HCjjfH their children, and that in this land the only 1 H'' JliiH limitation to what a free man can do in the way 1 ' L ivfflH of advancement, is his want of courage to aspire 1 f, ' LhM to great things, his want of persistence in follow- 1 LP &H ing his courage. 1 ' ' j If Ifl As it is, the owners of mines and manufac- III , 1H tories live in great part away from where ther E Ji ' 5, jjjJH capital is invested; the property is in the hands P I '. JH of hired agents; neither the bodies nor the souls i f 'IgH of the workingmen are looked after; the low sa- I fa, JH loon is their only clubhouse; they feel that they I I N HI are only held in the same estimation that the I 1 h t !H machines which they operate are held in; what 1 f.UlojH wonder if they listen to demagogues who tell 1 n' jfflH them they are being oppressed, or to cunning men 1 i, fj l jfl who, in their own ranks would keep up an agita- 1 1 jf , afl tion forever, if thereby they could live without 1 it!)H work? I ll'jjyiH |