Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-05

onC DuHScr.
One great danger today is the tendency
among some to widen the chasm between
capital and labor, to make the working
man feel that the prospo rity of the capt.
talists is an injury to himself and to make
the capitalists feel that the workingman
is simply beast of burden. This is wrong
The prosperity of one means the pros
perity of both. They should work to-
Sether. Capitalists are necessary, for with
out them great enterprises impossible.
and la Dor is the creator of all wealth, and
the men who toll are true sovereigns where
labor is hcnored and merit distinguished.
One reason for this condition appears
to be that too many young men become
weary of the farms and crowd into the
cities, expecting to win success with ease.
The professions are all full of men who
came from the country to better their con-
ultlonS, when, in fact, they made them
worse, for the competition in the city is a
thousand times sharper. Indeed there Is
not much music in the rattle of the cable
or electric car; there is not much joy in
the darkness of musty office on the top
floor of lofty building. But there is in
spiratiCn in green fields and fruitful
chards: there is music in the hum of reapers
and mowers and there is melody in the
songs of birds as they carol amid the
trees, and there is pure air and health and
sunlight in the harvest fields in the
meadows snd among the shady groves
In our cities too many merchants and
bankers do not take enough interest in
| lnelr employees TO WISH them ana note the
manner in which. on their meager wages.
they care for father and mother and others
dependent upon them.
L believe in short hours and as good
pay as possible for all who toll And II
is right, just and proper that the woman
who is compelled TO labor for living
should receive the same pay for the same
work performed as well and within the
time the man who works in shop
factory by her side Indeed l would also
let her vote, if she desired. She certainly
ought to be as much entitled to this priv
lese as the thug and ballot box suffer
who makes himself SO conspicuous in some
localities.
There Should be no quarrel between CAPT
tai and labor; one cannot do without the
other Both are needed in developing the
latent resources of our republic both are
needed to make our nation rich, prosperous
and happy.
We do not want this land to become one
of cruelty, weakness and deception. We
do not want the future historian to he able
to record, on pages believed with generous
tears. the sad story that the free nation
of the west arose in splendor that made
the world stare, that it had magnificent
possibilities; but it hated justice, and IL
Rugged Its crime; it halted on its nigh
march; it fell, and it was going down
all the despotisms OF earth from the tops
of bloody thrones began to shout: "Ah, ha,
We told you 50! We told you SOL Mo-
No! Here equal and exact justice shall
prevail among all classes of our people.
and beautiful virtue and spiritual grace
shall light up the homes of rich and poor,
and all will hail the good time coming
when human justice shall reflect divine
justice the quiet lake the star. And as
national greatness is impaired by ndi-
vdual triumph. the nation is great as the
people are great: honest, unselfish. pro-
greSSive as the people arise to higher con-
ceptionS of these attributes.
In this land we want no classes of So
ciety No high. no low. no rich no poor.
Society must not be formed in layers like
is in n
Here society must be rather like the
ocean, so broad so long. so deep, that
every grain of sand that mingles with the
waters at the bottom may rise through
all the currents until 1t CLEANS like
jewel on the crest of the highest wave.
So here, the poorest son of the man who
tolls may wind his lowly way over tortuous
paths 20 final greatness. through all grades
of society, from the humble cabin home
of poverty. until he becomes the chief citi-
zen of d mighty nation. the ruler of the
Grant. Garfield and Mckinley. 1t must ever
be true that:
"Where'er our destiny sends forth
Its widening circles to the south and north;
Where'er our banner floats beneath the
stars
It's mimic splendors and it's cIoud-like bars,
There shall free labors hardy children
stand.
Anarchy LabOr's Worst Foe.
Another danger is anarchy. 1t is the
worst foe Of the poor laboring man in this
country. 1t browns out his honest cry for
reform with vociferations for anger and
blood. If the vagabonds who are running
up and down the country trying to sew the
seeds of dissension and disloyalty and strife
were huShed up in some place of security,
the oppressed and down-trodden laborer
would have more work and more bread for
his household. Anarchy will not make wo-
men and children less hungry, nor will it
make men happier.
One man has a strong arm. that is capt.
tall another has a brilliant genius, that is
capital to cut the muscles of that arm,
break down that mind and put out that
genius is anarchy.
1t is only by upholdng and sustaining
the supremacy of the law We can assist in
maintaining and preserving the perpetuity
of our free Institutions The shadow of
the future rests on the shore of the pres
ent. and what lies in that shadow. what
mysteries it conceals. no soul can tell. But
we do know that the sublime governmental
trinity, liberty, equality and justice cannot
be maintained through the manifold chang
es Of remorseless time. unless they are
placed forever under the control of the
immortal and indestructible dynasty of
law.
Another danger is slavery from political
demagoguery and impurity in politics. To
that condition whereby a few may control
our large cities, and thus control the states
by methods of corruption and thus leave
the masses of the people as helpless as
slaves
Another danger is In opening the gates of
the republic to too much indiscriminate
foreign immigration Understand me- now
DO not say one word against worthy de-
serving foreigners, for my own father was
born in the mountains of Wales, and most
of our ancestors and forefathers in this re-
public were foreigners; among them were
men whose fathers stood amid the array
of patriots who wrested Magma Charta
from King John on the field of Runny-
meade. And there were those who follow
ed Cromwell at Marston Moor and Naseby |
And there were those whose fathers fol- |
lowed the white plume of Henry of Ma
varre in the years of the long ago. But
what l do say is that every worthy and |
deserving man or woman from every land |
and every cline shall come here and find a |
happy home, providing they come to be
one of us, to love their adopted country as |
the apple of their eye. and to be willing to |
stand by its flag. come veal or woe.
But we do not intend that this land shall |
become the dumping place for the Off
scourings of other lands. No; we do not |
intend to admit SO many Trojan horses |
filled with foreign enemies within the gates |
of our cities.