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Show LABCRTROUBLEOLD Disturbances Go Far Back Into History. Apostle Paul Is on Record as Having Created Dissension Among the People of Ephesus by His Preaching of Christianity. While the matter of Labor day is under consideration, the question arises; What is labor? Webster gives as his first definition; "Toll or exertion, physical or mental." William B. Wilson, secretary of the department of labor, gave the following follow-ing as his conception of the idea; "Labor is any mental or physical activity ac-tivity other than that engaged in solely sole-ly for pleasure" a definition showing brain at once practical and analytic. Mr. Powderly would narrow' this somewhat by defining labor as "any exertion, mental or physical, not indulged in-dulged ln for pleasure and for the benefit ben-efit of mankind." Doctor Coulter of the census bureau, an expert on such matters, would give au even broader scope to the word. He defines labor as: "All effort, whether jnental or physical." The question of Labor day naturally brings to mind the collateral labor questions of labor union protests and strikes. There is a tendency among latter-day philosophers to prophesy all manner of evil to come to mankind by the way of labor unions and their troubles, both among themselves and with others, and to hold forth these troubles as a proof of human decadence, deca-dence, peculiar only to this degenerate age. Paul, together with other apostles, went up in the Ephesus country, seeking seek-ing converts to the Christian faith. Now. Ephesus was the favorite city of Diana, or Artemis, as she was also called. Here was her famous temple; here was her famous statue, said by the priests to have fallen from heaven. Thither every year came pilgrims by the tens of thousands to worship at the shrine of the tutelary deity and here a goodly number of silversmiths found their calling a most lucrative one. For, there being no photographs uor postal cards, these pilgrims took away with them small silver facsimile fac-simile statuettes of the great goddess as souvenirs. Now observe the nineteenth nine-teenth chapter of Acts. "Now a silversmith named Demetrius, Demet-rius, who made silver models of the sbrlne of Artemis (Diana), and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans, arti-sans, got -these men together, as well as the workmen engaged in similar occupations, and said: 'Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this work, and you see and hear that, nof only in Ephesus, but in almost the whole of Roman Asia, this Paul has convinced and won over great numbers num-bers of people by his assertion that . those gods which are made bf hands are not gods at all. so that not only is this business of ours likely to fall into discredit, but there is the further danger that the temple of the great goddess, Artemis (Diana), will be thought nothing of. and that she herself her-self will be deprived of her splendor, though all Roman Asia and the whole world worship her.' "When they heard this the men were greatly enraged and began shouting: shout-ing: 'Great is Prtemis of the Ephe-aians!' Ephe-aians!' The commotion spread through the whole city, and the people rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging drag-ging with them the companions ol FauL" Certainly there annot ba found in any modern newspaper a more perfect account of a sympathetic strike and a labor riot. And that vs two thousand years pro |