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Show . . .. . The Labor rrnhlein. I In nn address at Saratoga, X.Y., General Stewart L. Woodford pro- j pounded the following questions aud ! summed up his answers iu the conclud- : ing paragraph: Ought we not as a community to insist in-sist earnestly, wisely, if necessary relentlessly, re-lentlessly, upon corporations living absolutely ab-solutely within the lines of their delegated dele-gated powers? "If all wealth is produced by labor from the earth, if the land is at the basis of the state, should not the law hinder everv nttemnt to acrreoate land and transmit it in great bodies to posterity? pos-terity? "Ought we ever to forget that associated asso-ciated labor, with nil the harm that it may occasionally do, is providential iu this land of ours?" "Whether it be in in political association, asso-ciation, or in organized business endeavor, en-deavor, or in social life, whether we are employers or laborers, wherever we stand iu the cnnllict of forces that is going 011, wo should stand resolutely to this. "Each individual man and women has a right to work when, where and how that woman will; and at all cost, whatever it may be, society must insist that neither strike or boycott shall ever interfere with the individual liberty liber-ty of the individual citizen. 'The laborer who, asking his own right, forgets his neighbors right. is ! cutting his own throat. The capitalist 1 who weakly concedes the right of any other man to dictate to him whom he shall employ is doing his children and his estate tremendous injury. At the root of all American civilization lies the idea I hat eat h man has the inalienable inalien-able right of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of labor, t have that calm confidence in the good sense of the present, that abiding faith in the divine purpose that buiit this nation, which make me believe that through all this argument, through all this discussion, discus-sion, through all this interchange of varied and conflicting opinion, we shall move steadily forward, and each generation shall recognize mure fully the right of our common brotherhood. But we shall move up that golden way on the old stepping stones, after all. Industry, frugality, temperance, duty, will be the stepping stones on which he who owns and he who labors shall go band in hand.1' |