The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-02
WORDS OF PRAISE AND COUNSEL.
Mayor White Addresses the Unions on
Their Power and Duty.


Their Power and Duty.
The diff rent organizations drew Nap in line
on Jackson street from South Fourth to the
water, the police In perfect order. facing tenn
porary speakers stand at the corner of South
Second and Jackson street Each union and
platoon Tnassed itself closely after, leaving out
the floats. which had been dropped all along for
SIX or eight blocks back, aud shortly before IL
O'Clock, Mayor white aud Marshal Mooney
mounted the platform. Mayor White spoke es
follows:
'GcntIemen Of The Central Labor Union and Or
DGnt-ed Labor: j bid You q hearty welcome TO
tbs Queen City OF the Sound / feel highly
honored IN having the privilege OF extending
70 you the freedom OF the city Of Static. You
have come from the shop ard the mil, from
the forest and the mine to lay your Offering on
the altar OF IaDor You have met 70 celebrate
Labor day in an appropriate manaer and have q
few hours Of social intercourse You have left
your ordinary pursuits for the purpose
of meeting together 10 advance the good
cause. We are sli interested in the
elevation OF labor and the protection of its
rights You are an organized army; organized
not for the purpose OF destroying the city and
causing death and destruction through the
land, but for the noble purpose of lettering the
condition OF those who earn heir bread by daily
labor. Your desire Is 10 secare Tor the working
man leisure time sufficient to enable him to I'm
prove his mind, res; his body and gain knovl-
edge OF the great questions an which ne is in
terested Il Is the general belief among the
ruling classes OF the old world that education r.
an injury to the working man: that il causes
him 10 be discontinued with his station I'm Iife
and causes him TO have yearliug for some
thing beyond his reach. IL Ia true education
causes discomfort. bus there must Be discomfort
among men before they wiz strive 10 reach
higher and better station. Your rnissioa il
ms fha ~ 81 r~Fy<
are the agencies on which you must rely in the
great struggle on which you have entered
Your organization gives you grea; power. Use
ii wisely. Your triumphs are the triumphs of
advancing civilization. These magnificent
buildings are trophies Of your skill On land
and sea the Nations commerce is controlled by
your hand and when you withdraw the vheeI
of commerce viii no longer reyolye
Your examination has asked that DAVIS la
Dor be fxediat eight hours The voters of the
city OF Seattle viii soon have a chance 10 vote
for or against incorporating the proposition in
the new city cha rter. Be true to your PROBES
sions and endcsvor to have the vote of every L.
boring man cast in its favor.
Gentlemen, in behalf of the city thank vos
for your presence here today aud hops that
each of you may long remember with pleasure
this. the first Labor-day celebration in the new
state of Washington"
Mayor Whites speech was loudly applaudsd
by the thousands OF listeners. and Grand Mar
shall Mooney stepped forward and extended
thanks on the part OF organized labor 70 the city
government, to the Chamber of Commerce and
to the police department. Be admOnished the
men to be orderly, and hoped that they would
enjoy and long remember the DAY.
AS he formally declared the psrsds
at an end a cheer rose up from the crowd which
was densely packed around the stand The
cheer grew and in a moment the vast thyCnz
Gwfa md r1rri
could reach, had taken up the cheer and ten
thousand voices mingled in one long, strong
cheer, and the procession was over.
The depot was only block away, and the
men who short time before had been march
ing IN 50 orderly and stately manner through
the streets mingled IN a scramble for position
on the frst train for Renton. The frs: train
which left at IL g. m. was packed to its full ca
pacity, and each succeeding one ali the after
noon had hundreds of passengers