The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06

month instead of once a year Organized
labor, he asserted. Is the only. legitimate
self with. According TO the views Of the
mayor, it is to the interest of capital to
have labor organized Employers secure
better results from organized labor The
mayor said he was glad the laws of Indi-
ana were favorable to organized labor. He
thought workingmen should felicitate them
selves on the fact that the condition of the
State at the present time is good for the
industries The crops are bountiful and
there is plenty Of employment for every
man who wants to work. In his remarks
Mayor Taggart pointed to the white tents
referred TO the inhabitants of the tented
village and of the brave men who have come
back from the war. The mayor said he
rice Thompson, who maintained that the
United States. should keep all it has cap
tured. He declared that he too had
reached the conclusion that the people of
this country are entitled to retain the ISL
ends they have captured and should do So
Governor Mounts Address.
Governor Mount was the next speaker in
troduced. He said it was not his purpose to
make a speech, as other orators had been
provided to do that work. 1t was simply
his province to extend welcome to those
who had come to the celebration Contin-
uing, the Governor said: Our statutes,
national and state, provide for Labor
day, and make this Labor day legal holi-
| day. The purpose of the statute in provid-
| ing Labor day which should be a legal
| holiday was to call the attention of the
| people of this Nation to the dignity and to
| the Importance of labor. When we con-
| template that century ago this State was
| a wilderness waste, and to-day it is COW
cred over with fruitful fields, yielding
| abundant harvests and dotted over with
with telephone and telegraph lines and
| gridironed with railroads, we are aston
ished. YEA, when we consider the rapid
| growth OF this country we stand amazed
| The civilized world looks upon the United
| States and is appalled, to note that in a
| little more than a third of a century the
| reached an amount greater than the ag-
! gregate wealth Of any country in the world
derful achievement, at our marvellous at
/ tainments, at our accumulated wealth, we
ask the question, from whence came this
| transformation what magic wand touched
| the wilderness that it bioomed forth in
| beauty and abundance; what hand has
| builded these cities and towns over this
/ what hand has put up these telephone and
| telegraph lines; what hand has buided
| into the mountain side, bringing out the
| ore, down into the mine, bringing up the
| coal, and then in the furnace of industry
has created this great wealth? 1t has been
the hand of labor that has wrought this
marvellous change, and it is for the purpose
| of honoring the men who have created the
| Nations wealth that we are here to-day.
According to Mulhalrs statistics, the pro-
ductive wealth OF OF o the GO United mi States ag-
amount double that of any nation on earth.
| To-day we are amazed at this wonderful
J ing men of this country belongs the honor
! of this vast accumulated wealth.
at matters not where men labor, whether
| in the field, in the factory, in the shop
down in the mine or at the counter,
whether they labor with Drawn or brain,
they all contribute to the wealth of this
l frr,frs x- DIT hn Af c,5fa rndY1
he was founding that mighty empire which
! to-day in large measure dominates Europe,
recognized that the arts of Industry must
be at the foundation if a nation would ct
| tain greatness and you find that he, in the
| founding of that mighty empire, for the
| time being turned the government over to a
man chosen by himself, and then travelled
| in Sweden, was at Blandenburg and at
saardam, in Holland. engaged at day labor
| to found an empire worked as a day Ia
borer at ship building and received each
| Saturday night, as every other man does.
his wages. That man builded better than
/ he knew.
| JUDGING A MAN BY HIS CLOTHES
I'm 1858 William III of England invited
| this man to visit England. He was hon
ored everywhere, but Peter the Great in
stead of indulgng in reveling ana in dssi-
patton or in banqueting, spent his time
among the laboring men in the dock yards
and the shops of England, and why: He
knew full well that labor must make the
| Russian empire great il it ever became
great. Aye, should we not honor hi men
who thus create the Nations wealth?
| Sometimes there IS a, disposition to Judge
| men by Their exterior polish AMI lock with
| favor Jpcn the man who may be neatly
| clad. who may be accustomed TO the 1a"h-
| lens of the day--hiS hands white and TN
| scleG- there is a disposition I" lock
with favor upon that man rather than upon
| the man who staLds at the throttle of the
moi, uritf cni1 nH md n -
| man WIN goes down into the mine ana
| comes up covered with CRIME and dirt, or
] toe man who stapG< in the SHOP or the fac
| tory with the soiled garments and sollcd
| hands This false standard of Ju1Sny IL
man is a mistaken standard. You can no
| more judge the heart by the exterior polish
| than you can tell the depth of the ocean
| by the sCam or its crest. The hands sol.ed
by Honest labor ought to be a badge q
| honor IN this country, for these are the
| hands that have made this Nation great as
| ii stands to day.
And there are other men who have digni-
| fed labor. That chiefest of all apostles That
| greatest theologian the world ever knew,
| that mighty orator and scholar, the Apostle
| Paul, when he babe farewell to the elders
| at Ephesus, lifted up before them his
| needle-worn hands and said to the elders
of that church, These hands have min
| istered to my necessities that l might not
| be chargeable unto any of you" Yes, that
great teacher and preacher worked at his
he was seeking to carry the gospel TO the
remote portions of the world: And yet to-
| day in this modern civilization there is a
| disposition to rather ook with C.sfavOr
| upon the hands that Paul held UP a
badge of honor. Then let us, my fellow
| citizens, as we contemplate the wonderful
| development of this country and it's marvel
| Gus achieVementS--aS we take this retro
| Spective view, let us for a moment take a
| prospective view. AS we travel over this
great land of ours and we see the millions
| of acres of land not vet cultivated, and
when we contemplate the possibilities,
under scientific cultivation, OF an in
| creased product of the acres now cultivated
| and when we consider the wealth hid be-
meath the soil, cropping out of our noun
| contemplate the vast resources of undevel-
| oped wealth in this country. we at once
| conclude that these things III the hand of
| labor point to period of national great
/ ness the acme of which we are hut beginn-
| ing to ascend. And what IS going to enable
| bility? 1t will be the hand of labor that has
wrought thus nightly in this land.
| QUALITIES THAT GO WITH LABOR.
"Then to these workngmen-1 care not
where they toll, if in the sweat of the face
you eat bread, it is according to the divine
| decree, and to all such / bid you welcome
here to-day With one word more to these
| laboring men, and that is the possibilities
| that lie within the reach of every laboring
man. There is something more now in man
than the mere work of the hand. Qualities
| of mind, heart and character-if these
/ things go with labor, they add to the
value of that labor Then as to the possi-
| bilities of the laboring man. remember
| at the bench in Philadelphia Each received
| 80 10 a dav for his labor One of these men