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Show THE ARMIES. The labor organizations made a brave parade on Monday. From the beginning the conquests of the world have been made by marching and charging armies; with armies Kings executed their decrees for thousands of years. They went forth with emblazoned standards, waving plumes, prancing pranc-ing steeds, music, with all "pomp and circumstance," circum-stance," but their trails were covered with wreck and death. From the beginning the physical world has been subdued and beautified by the armies ar-mies of labor. No standards have marked their advance, no music has cheered them on, but in their trails flowers have -bloomed and In unsoiled sandals civilization has followed. Whatever changes have come to the rude world from the beginning have been wrought by labor. x Millions of heroes, fighting in these unplumed ranks, have exhausted their lives In the mighty contest; great hearts by millions have broken in the unequal fight and gone into the silence, but Progress has kept pace with the struggle, and because be-cause of It the world has grown better. The plumed armies are going into disrepute, the unplumed un-plumed host is taking on new majesty every day. At first the laborer was a servant and his occupation oc-cupation was without nobility. But as Intelligence Increased more and significance deepened around the words "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" until at length the full light dawned and men learned that in all fields wherein man puts forth his exertions, only through earnest la- bor can any lasting triumphs be won. And now ' J! with every year new dignity attaches to labor, ' iJjiB no matter what may be Its field, until at last the ' nkm nations recognize that whatever of splendor ex- ' ( T ists has come of toil. j- M In the last century there was a new awaken- Iril Ing. Science and invention opened new doors; ill 1 steam and electricity submitted to be harnessed rm and obediently went into service. They took from . j.Sf M men's arms of flesh a thousand burdens and bore 1 .fill them away on arms of steel, Until a generation of : fk I men accomplishes more now than they did In all I ! ',M the years of Methuselah. More, the chariots in I ' i :fl which men travel on land are pillars of cloud by I" r .! M day and pillars of fire by night; the continents ijji ; jffl have been drawn close together by steam until the ," jIM deep seas are but ferries and "a girdle has been ,, &! put 'round about the earth," which gives us each morning the world's history of the previous day. w 'IEB With this have come other advancements until u Mm the places are closing against unskilled labor and ? the demand for higher skilled labor is growing $ JeI more and more imperative. '. IBfl This being the situation, it is plain that on each m JgM returning Labor Day, the matter most to be cox- fs 'fel sidered should be the place of laborers In the fl B world and how they, for themselves and their jl J children, can advance to higher and higher pos- m jfB sibilltles, until despite all competition the high Jr'fll and the rich will come as suppliants for their fH services. There is no crowding in the upper stor- ; "fOT ies, and this applies as well to tho humblest trade 'rHjH as to the commander of an army. Out of every ' infl She hundred blacksmiths there are not more than ' JI seven that can shoe a horse well, though one day's '-Wmm study would make clear to all of them exactly 'IHI how the foot of a horse Is constructed and what ' iaIH a smith must do and must guard against doing in ' , h putting plates upon it. That is but an instance. f iflH The cry everywhere Is for more and more excel- t ilfll lence, and the best thought of all labor organlza- "9 tions ought not to be how they can best guard "fisH their immediate rights, but how they can prepare Jrll themselves to meet the obligations of their chosen 'H employments In such a way that the world can- S'Mil not get along without their help. When that is ! lIH done no army that every went forth with music ' ffll and plumes and glorious standards could com- I NH pare in majesty to the army whose conquests are A f9H through toil, whose triumphs are a higher civiliza- Ml tion. 1H |