| Show TO LABOR ts victories are real and constitute a benediction iris fit progress Pro gres to the higher things ef of life a part of the worker worlee duty should be truer realization of dignity here there wa never a time when it was re to propitious to pay par homage to la and ua its mighty achievements we lold old by far the grat majority of e caucasian i aco ace at war utilizing 9 energy and Intelli intelligence tenSe of more u a people in to the work destruction the result of contribute not one atom of good the human race or the cause ot ol rutlan civilization tabors victories are real they thor neti tute a benediction they make r happiness for the moral and spir ual il llevat elevation ion of mankind wars vicle es make for woe tor for poverty tor for fre eslon for homelessness for the st of the innocent for the tel 1 of brutish passions pae alone abor labor makes for love ft it mark marks the etess of mans journey to the high things of life labor la Is a builder bomes war reduces thorn them to ashes bor plants the vino vine that clambers er the cottage door in which the biting wife and children aland stand to tt let the toilers return from tho irl ot of the day war kills tho the toller adens eng the wife with grief and starves 0 tL ildren labor bor Is g honesty and fidelity war pillage and treachery labor la to tie us as ie in a ravisher of the de calens labor Is truth war is do IL labor Is uto and faith and hope trig to murder frenzy and anti despair lar makaa the floada glad with golden a to and the birds to aln sins in the joy t animates nim atoa all nature war ar leaves e mih desolate while vultures itt dit solemn silence contemplating tho ed and broken landscape bor le Is altogether good and it les e man inane s pathway to heaven war wl etil and marks the road to ruin fl leath death we eee see all theme thing look about today we ue us in our owa own country and anit behold the fruitful harretta har resta rests land it 1 is a of plenty on every aide side we be bl hold the wonderful results 0 of labor our harvest fields our great our wonderful cities our churches schools ech and our cattle on a thousand highs all thebe testify of labor labors worth they constitute labors benediction benedicti oll and across the davir in IV the land of our ancestors see arat wl at war Is a doing I 1 think of those teni tens of thousands thou sandi ot of gallant men who have lave fallen in france belgium gersuny u austria and rue rus ata slat think of the hundred hundreds of thou mands of humble homes waiting acx bously for footsteps that will never never return think of we thousands of blackened spots from which ascenda ascends the smoke of ruined habitations I 1 think thin k of the danger of nt women and children think of the cities destroyed and of ane river rivers sending a crimson tide to the seat sea surely the comparison will III dve give to each of us a keener appreciation of the great boon boan human labor I 1 ie a sure ly we e must have a truer realization of iab dignity let those frivolous wet 2 who ho are prone to look upon honest labor as uncouth and beneath onoe one r give a thought to labor today and contemplate lon kon what a truly great blessing blesi ing it ie Is and how a nobler it Is to than the emptiness and worthlessness of indolence labor 1 Is a king 1 at whose shrine all men may pay tribute all others kings kaisers keisers kai sers 1 czars and emperors are as bothin compared compare 1 with the true monarch of christian civilization whose whoso throne ha has been sanctified and blessed by tho the great great god himself |
