They are the bumps in the night that send shivers up a farmer's spine. All that labor washed away, proving once again that you have be a bit goofy to be a farmer. Otherwise, Labor Day is nice, especially if it doesn't rain, you have a job and like football. In election seasons, it also means the start of dirty tricks and other campaigning ploys, although lately the practice has become a year-round event. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration.
The speaker was Abraham Lincoln, the speech his message to Congress in 1861. President Lincoln, Republican, friend of the worker. In the newspaper, the help wanted ads stretch to 11 columns some days, displaying openings for everything from telemarketing to exotic dancing, not all of them high paying by any means, but jobs nevertheless. Blame it on the stupid economy. Rain in September, it is not music to a farmer's ear.