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Show THE DIGNITY OF LABOR. Cardinal Gibbons Says it is Sanctified by Christ's Example. At Wilkesbarre. Pa., Aug. 11. . great ovation was given to President Roosevelt Roose-velt by the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America and the Miners' , union, both organizations holding conventions con-ventions at the same time. All the streets which the president traversed were densely crowded and every house was covered with the national colors. His ovation from the beginning of the drive to the end was splendid. A feature fea-ture of the drive which pleased the president immensely was the singing of 300 little girls, dressed in white. Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons rode in the president's carriage until the procession reached the rectory of St. Mary's church, where the prelate loft the president. Cardinal Gibbons, in his address, said: "Mr. President. Friends and Fellow Citizens: I am sure you are profoundly profound-ly grateful to the president for his presence in Wilkesbarre on this solemn , and auspicious occasion, and your gratitude is emphasized by the consideration consid-eration that his visit to you is made i at a time when he Is engrossed by the cares of state and has grave foreign relations to engage his attention. "He has held out. the olive branch to two great nations of the earth: he is discharging the blessed office of peacemaker, peace-maker, and he brings the olive branch of peace and good will to you. I have no doubt that his visit will be a potent factor in cementing the good relations between you and your employers. "Before the advent of Christ, manual labor was .degrading. Our blessed, Savior came to blot out the primeval curse that had been pronounced upon it. Ever since He labored at Nazareth in the carpenter's shop. He has shed a halo around the brow of the working-man working-man and He has sanctified labor. "If the office of a president is ennobled en-nobled by the example of a Washine- ton and a Lincoln; If the office of a-jurist a-jurist is- ennobled by the example of a Marshall and a Taney; if the function , cf a statesman is ennobled by the example ex-ample of a Burke and a Webster, surely sure-ly the calling of a mechanic and a j workman is sanctified by the example of Jesus Christ. I "In 1833 De Tocqueville. a distinguished distin-guished French writer, published a work embodying his observations on the United States in which he pays a beautiful tribute to our economic institutions in-stitutions and the respect in which la-, -' bor is held in this country. He says' that in our land every honest employ- , ment is honorable. "This is a proper conception of the dignity of labor. The president's mission mis-sion will be far-reaching in its beneficent ben-eficent influence if he strengthens here the good relations between" the em- . ployer and the employed. There should be no conflict between labor and capital. cap-ital. They should be united and insep- . arable." |