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and demand, except when interfered
with by conspiracy, are in absolute con-

Workingmen, will finally become intelli-
gent enough to really unite to act in alb
solute concert. Could this be accom-
plished then a reasonable rate of COM
pensation could be fixed and enforced.
Now such efforts are local and the result
III, to this time has been failure But If
all could unite they could obtain what
is reasonable, what is just, and they
large majority Of their fellow-men, pro-
vided they were reasonable.
But before they can act in this way
| they must become really intelligent, in
telligent enough to know what is rea-
sonable and honest enough to ask for
| no more.
"All our sympathies should be with
the men who work, who toll, for the
| women who labor for themselves and
children, because we know that labor is
the Foundation of all, and that those
who labor are the caryatides that sup
port the structure and glfttering dome
Of civilization and progress"
Advocating homes for all, he said:
''The home is the unit Of the nation.
1.-THE more homes the broader the
foundation of the nation and the more
secure.
Everything that is possible should be
done to keep this from being nation of
tenants. The men who cultivate the
earth should own it. Something has al
| ready been done in our country in that
direction, and probably in every State
there is homestead exemption. This
exemption has thus far done no harm
to the creditor class. When we impris-
oned people for debt, debts were as in
secure, to say the least, as now. By
the homestead laws certain home of a
certain value or of a certain extent is
exempt from forced levy or sale, and
these laws have done great good. I'm
doubtedly they have trebled the homes
Of the nation.
Il wish to go step farther. 1 want,
if possible, to get the people out Of the
tenements, out of the cutters of degree
dation, to homes where there can be
privacy, where these people can feel
that they are in partnership with ma
ture; that they have an interest in good
government. With the means we now
have of transportation there Is no ne
cessity for poor people being huddled in
fostering masses in the vile filthy and
loathsome parts Of cities, where pow
erty breeds rags and the rags breed dis
eases.
Every State should fix the amount
Of land that could be owned by an in
dividual, not liable to be taken from him
for the purpose of giving a home to
another, and when any man owned
| more acres than the law allowed, and
another should ask to purchase them
and ShOuJ6 T hox no
law so that the person wishing to pur-
chase could file his petition in court
The court would appoint Commission
ers, or jury would be called, to de-
termine the value of the land the petit
toner wished for home and, upon the
amount being paid, found by such
commission or jury, the land should vest
absolutely in the petitioner
This right of eminent domain should
be used not only for the benefit of the
person wishing home, but for the BEN
eft Of all the people. Nothing is more
important to America than that the
babes Of America should be born around
the flresides Of homes"
Speaking Of marriage and divorce, he
gave his views as follows:
Marriage Is the most important Of -
of marriage is not the real marriage.
It Is only evidence of the mutual flames
| that burn within. There can be no real
marriage without mutual love- So I
believe in the ceremony Of marriage;
that it should be public; that records
| should be kept. Besides the ceremony
says to all the world that those who
marry are in love with each other.
Tbav, y~ic h.
Millions Of people imagine that the
married are Joined together by some
supernatural power and that they
should remain together, or at least mar
| ried, during life. If all who have been
married were joined together by the
supernatural, we must admit that the
supernatural is not infinitely wise.
After all, marriage is a contract.
and the parties to the contract are
bound to keep Its provisions and neither
should be released from such a con-
tract unless in some way the interests
OF society are involved. I would have
the law SO that any husband could OBJ
tain divorce when the wife had per-
sistently and flagrantly violated the
contract, such divorce to be granted on
equitable terms I would give the wife
divorce If she requested it, If she
wanted it,
Il make a difference between grant
ing divorce to man and to a woman,
and for this reason: A woman dowers
her husband with her youth and
| beauty. He should not be allowed to
desert her because she has grown old
and wrinkled. Her capital is gone. her
prospects in life lessened, while, on the
contrary, he may be far better able to
succeed than when he married her. AS
a rule, the man can take care of him
self, and, as a rule, the woman needs
! help. So / would not allow him to cast
her off unless she had f1agrantly viola
ted the contract. But for the sake of
the community, and especially for the
sake of the babes, I would give her a
| divorce for the asking
There will never be a generation Of
great men until there has been a genera
ton Of free women-of free mothers.
The tenderest word In our language
is maternity. In that word is the di-
vine mingling Of ecstacy and agony. of
love and self-sacrifice. This word is
holy
After recapitulating the methods of
Furnishing crime that are in general use.
| and depicting the causes that drive a
criminal back into crime after release,
he said:
"A penitentiary should be a school,
the convicts should be educated. So
prisoners should work and they should
be paid a reasonable sum for their
labor. The best men should have charge
Of prisons. They should be philanthro-
pists and philosophers: they should
know something of human nature The
prisoner, having been taught, we will