| Show t 4 THE rilE fIGhTS mams ov OP LAUGH There ihre Is III no excellence without la In labor labor bor This adage Is i better appreciated today than ever before In the tho history of ot the tho world wor It H Is human energy eners If fully tully directed that builds up UI and com coinS completes the tho great grent Improvements which I mark tho the progress pro reSl of ot civilization antI and ip add to the th comfort convenience and elevation of ot mankind Labor Is the fl great essential to enlightened existence exis existence existence tence and advancement Without It there are stagnation and decay Work tIr Is tho the destiny of ot man In the sweat of ot thy face thou shall sh lt eat cat bread brend IsI Is II I th the divine decree Toll Is 1 honorable ri b a disgrace The term tum labor I bor In Is however often octen mis misapplied misEl El j applied It n Is used use 1 to signify only ono I clans ciui of human exertion The 14 shovel worker and Rad others of ot his kind kina kindi 4 i em to Imagine Im IM that they are the tho t real gui laborers on earth Tho Tim mechanic t the miner tho the railroader tho the teamster and others Include themselves among the tha knights ot of labor but exclude the active workers worker In tho the professions and andall andall all nil the holders bolders of ot largo large capital Yet Yel Yett t when tho the truth Is i known It wit wll bo he bei i learned that many of the tho 1 ers who are oro regarded as above the ot of labor spend more moro hours am and more energy week In and week weel out outI I than the common laborer for tor days Ins r wages waree Their work Is of a n different j kind but It Is ts often more taxing to the iIII system and more exhausting to mind mindl l i had and body than manual exertion Every man to his trade and ond honor b to all at who do something for tor and add to tho the sum of ot human production II tion There Thero should be no rio envy of ot those thoo tho o who ho are gifted ClUe with ability above their tb lr fellows must mutt and should 1 l bt be c valued In the labor market more than lien ordinary muscular force torce Just ns nil gold goldI 01 1 I and ond sliver diver are ore called precious metals metal I because of ot their comparative rarity and andI I special s qualities go so It Is 18 with the ex ox exceptional in talent and genius II it cannot In the nature of oC o thing be oth otherwise otherwise 1 Hut But while Iron nn can an never nIr be beI I gold or wood s silver human rapacity 1 may mn be Improved and ond the th lower reach out to the lie higher When Is achieved the struggling toller toiler should hould rejoice at It Instead 1 of or if regarding nn as asI his enemy enem one who hlf 1315 ln been able to tn toI I mount the ladder kidder which 1 he himself has bM hasas hasI I 3 I as nil yet et failed to climb I Capital Is a In nil great groat human hUllUm enterprises enterprise This tad fact ought to tobe tobe tobe be recognised by b every laborer And there II Is no toller r at the bench benth plow hammer hammor or pick JIlek who saves raves II veS anything from his hi wage that does dOli not aim to become a i capitalist elf Capital I has hns the th same sam e ine rights to combine and to toe toI I secure e ure protection a at as labor has hll The right Ot of prOperty properly la is on one OM of th the able rights of human twines beings 1 Its Us mine In the progress M of ot lb tilt lie worM cannot be IA beC C denied or Ignored with d du to nets facia and e good d common sense The ef et efforts icI forts torla made mode by b agitators agitator than to set Mt atI I later labor against t capital and make mah m of ot them natural enemies flIM Is III Irrational Injurious i and to b Ia be utterly condemn by I think tnt ing re ok The rights of ot labor are n better Itter l led Ct I ed cod now than Irh at any an period hae have done much to bring about this proems Wa as s are higher the tho hours of DC toll inn are Ire lew t I tt h opportunities and antI advantage In tho th morO more easily at attainable reach of or workers ore are tamable In consequence of ot the com coin combinations om that have been effected eft among amen amenthe the different trades and occupations occupation of c among Amon many Hut there Is III an un evil them which will provo prove their overthrow the pirl unless It Is cut cast out That Is in which at nt attempts attempts of ot tyranny anti compulsion workers who vho do no not tempts to force toree the rules of oC an n norder wish to be he bound by order union Into Its ranks against or violation of ot law Rn In their will viii and liberty the that of ot despotism I There Thero Is b no form torm Inhuman oppressive and strikes condemnable uti us as OS more than that which seeks I Ito from working wanting at lit hla h to prevent a man of ot himself trade for tor the support dependants when he ho Is ready m sud nd will willing willIng and labor for foi accept the wages to ing trig Every workman hat has tho tue hours offered the torms terms of ot em employers right to refuse the has hns the tho right to tomake tomake t one hut but no make others reject them bent verY Every l one oat but no noone noone noone If it h hit he pleases may Join a 1 union endeavor reasonably one may mil legally or him hint unite with It or others to force to arguments of ot labor the pretended All agitators who live ort oft the neitie le a of ot otreal workers worker to show MW that such corn com real nothing but shallow hial I Is 3 umber are Irrational and antI cruel low sophisms both Working people should be supporters Live and let of lit liberty and nit an order live IIvo should hould be one of ot their mottoes to prevent others fo To o use violent means from train doing doln that which they thor tp to II the lIt law of or the land perform U III i to break II rea freedom To fore re refuse refuse and trample on be because beC because fuse tURI to 10 work with a does doe not belong to an nn cause C UI he or site she society religious or order or union or political which establishes nil rules CD to govern labor Is l tho tM very orY essence o of ot that coercion against which ovary evory lib Ill soul oui Ie If H It Is not repudiated by labor organizations In It Il will wilt load lead to principle and In practice their ultimate suppression and end ruin The rho labor parade In this city today tollay wits was a tine One exhibition It was waR encouraging aging to all eli beholders who rejoice In iii Inthe Inthe the progress and elevation of ot the sons eons ot of the thu of ot f toll toil rite line appearance n marchers was a testimony to 10 tho the pros progress ress resa ess that line has been made In the ranks of ot labor It showed that they were well veIl ted fed well clothed and able to enjoy their heir holiday with an nn Intelligent appreciation privileges It was elation ot of their head ahead of ot anything that Could ouId be pre pro presented presented exited n a score or er more mere years agoo ago aJo We Wo o are aro with those thoS who seek geik lIe k to ad nil advance vance Race the Interests ot of the tho workers of at atthe the lie world Wo We believe In good wages short hart hours temperance In toll toil tho the ight of ot labor and tIm tho rights ot of capi capital tal i Everything l should be tie regulated In reason rason and for tor mutual benefit b the tho amelioration of ot human conditions the th rectification of wrongs anti and tho the uplift uplifting upliftIng ing t and advancement of or the whole hu human huma man ma family H If f all nil classes will wll work r rk to that end the millennial day will soon goon dawn upon ullon the world |
