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Show wpst where the people night recuperate. Such a hope does not lie ahead of the Europeans on their own continent. Fortunately For-tunately the world still has vast nnde veloped areas, and the people of Eu- j rope can ejuit their wrecked and 'poverty-stricken home countries and build up rich communities in America. Africa and South America. And in the long run the world's wealth will rebuild and refurnish Europe. American labor deserves much credit for what it has accomplished, but in the spirit of Kipling's recessional we must attribute our prosperity and our peace largely to the blessings of Providence, Provi-dence, and we must be careful to preserve pre-serve our liberties and our opportunities opportuni-ties by an unceasing vigilance and by adherence to the virtues and ideals of our forefathers. 1 LABOR DAY. Once more the nation celebrates Labor La-bor day. Once more the student of economic, conditions c.omteniplates the present condition of labor in America ami looks optimistically- to tno iiuure. In no Pharisaical spirit of boasting Americans can celebrate the achievements achieve-ments of labor in this country as un surpassed in human annals. Capital nnd labor have their troubles in this country. Strikes and rumors of strikes are constantly recorded in the daily press, but these discords are comparatively com-paratively insignificant, in the sublime symphony of industrial harmony which has produced the world's richest nation. na-tion. If is true that our achievements are due to the bounty of a Providence which has placed us iu the midst of limitless lim-itless resources, and that some of the great races of the world have beon Compelled to eke out their riches from a stubborn soil and in factories far from raw materials. And yot we may well believe thnt in the melting pot of the world the mingling of races under free institutions has produced results unattainable elsewhere. The American laborer occupies a higher level than the laborers of any other nation, and this has had much to do with his superior efficiency. He has been ablo to achieve easily because he has been heller fed and is loss addicted to stimulants than the laborers of many other races. It will not have .been forgotten that fifteen years ago .when American goods began to enter Europe in vastly greater quantities than ever before, the .German .Ger-man government sent a commission to this country to learn how it was that the highest priced labor in the world could produce goods which could be sold at a profit; in competition with goods produced by low-priced labor. Even the remarkably efficient Germans Ger-mans believed that they had something to learn from our laborers and our captains cap-tains of industry. The English, too, investigated industrial conditions in this country to discover why it wfas that their goods were being driven out of their own home markets by American goous. What the Germans and the Eng- lish discovered was embodied iu exhaustive exhaus-tive reports covering a wide field. The Germans found that in some w;is their ovn workmen were as of-ficient of-ficient as were Americans, but the.y also found that American laborers were capable of turniue out a greater product prod-uct as a result of organization, good fotfd and living conditions, sobriety and a high average of intelligence and initi-L initi-L alive. Undoubtedly in both Germany and Great Britain the conditious of which so much complaint was made at the time, have .been improved vastly. Th e wonderful advance made by the Germans in the last fifteen years is Sufficient evidence of that. But in paying tribute to the workers of Europe Eu-rope we should uot lose Bight of the fact nor should they that it is only a few years ago that they were coming to u? for instruction. How far from perfect the industrial organization is we are all aware. It is imperfect because it is human, but it is bettor today than ever before, and it is growing better constantly iu spite of tho now problems tvhich both capital capi-tal and labor are compelled to solve as life crows more complex and more specialized. Something of our riches and content we owe to the fathers of the country, to those stronc men who, in the course of human eveuts, foumled a government govern-ment upon the consent of the governed, upon .justice, liberty and equality. In Germany the organiz-ation might be do scribed as despotic socialism. It has achieved marvels as have free institutions institu-tions in France and Great Britain. But the organization of the old world was fatally defective aud the evidence of it is before our eyes. The heritage of the Europeans is being consumed as by fire. They are impoverishing themselves them-selves because their organization was of the variety of the house divided against itself, r'ree nations bordered on despotisms, and all were at war iu thought if not in deeds, aud were constantly con-stantly threatening one another. Moreover, More-over, there were ruling and subject races to add to the discord. Our own nation passed through the fiery furnace half a century ago and came out cripple. 1.. but there were wide spaces ot' undeveloped resources to the |