Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-08-16

''N''"AS soHletlilleS nSen failure -
nes. Every great movement has been
failure at some time. Application of
| the steam powers failure. electro-telesr-
raphy failure, railroading a failure.
but now TIE chief successes of the
world
But. says some one. "why talk of
surplus being put by laborers into CO.
operative associations. when the vost
multitude of toilers in this country, arc
struggling for their daily bread and
have no surplus" reply: Put into
my hand the money spent by the In
boring classes OF America for rum and
tobacco. and will establish cooperative
associations in all parts of the land.
SONS OF them mightier than any finan-
oial institutions of the country. We
! spend in this country over SlOO. OOO. OOS
every year for tobacco. We spend over
Sl,5OO.OOO.O00 directly or indirectly for
rum. The laboring classes spend their
share of this money. Now. suppose the
laboring man who has been expendinp
his money in those directions should
just add up how much he has expended
during these past years and then sup
pose that that money was put into co.
operative association and then suppose
he should have all his friends in toll
I who had made the same kind of expcnd-
iture. do the same thing, and that
should be added up and put into "A CO.
| operative association. And then take
all that money expended for overdress
and overstyle and everything on the part
of toiling people in order that they may
appear as well as persons who have
more gather that all up, and
you could have cooperative associations
all over this land.
l am not saying anything now abou;
trades unions. You want TO know what
| think of trades unions. | think they
are most beneficial in some directions
and they have specific object and in
this day, when there are vast monopo-
lies-a thousand monopolies concen-
trating the wealth of the people into
the possession of few men. unless
the laboring men of this country and ali
countries band together they will 60
under. There is a lawful use of a trade
union, but then there is an unlawful
use of u trade union. If it means SYM
pathy in time of sickness. if it means
finding work for people when they are
out OF work, if il means the Improve
ment Of the financial, the moral or the
peiig.ous condition of the laborinr
classes. that is all right. Do not artists
band together in an art union? DO not
| singers band together in Handel and
Haydn societies? Do not newspaper.
men band together in press clubs? Do
| not ministers of religion bard together
in conferences and associations? There
is not in all the land city where clergy
men do not come together, many OF
them once a week. to talk over affairs.
For these reasons you should not blame
labor guilds. When they are doing
their Legitimate work they are most
admirable, but when they come around
with drum and fife and flag and drive
people off from their toll, from their
| scaffoldingS. from their factories, then
they are nihilistic, then they are com
nunIstic, then they are barbaric. then
they are curse. If man wants to
stop work, let him stop work, but he
cannot stop me from work
BUT now suppose that all the laborinp
classes banded together for bcneficient
purposes in cooperative association I'M
ueF Whatever name they put their
means together. Suppose they take the
money that they waste in rum and to-
Dacco and use it for the elevation of
their families, for the education of fbcir
children. for their moral. intellectual
and religious improvement. what diff
ferent state Of things we would have
in this country and they would have
in Great Britain,
Do YOU not realize the fact that men
] work ts-i4
say. "Will you deny the laborinp men
TINS help which they get from strong
drink. borne down as they are with
many anNieties and eXhausting work 80
J would deny them nothing that's good
Tor them. | would deny them strong
drink. If had the power because il is
damaging TO them. My father said: ~
became temperance man in early life
because ] found that in the harvest
heId. while was naturally weaker than
the other men. / could hold out longer
than any Of them. They took stiuu-
liant and ] took none"
Know a gentleman very well who
has over LOCO hands in his employ. /
SAID to him some years ago when there
was great trouble in the labor market.
How are YOU getting on with vour
men oh" he said u have no
trouble" Why" ! said. have rot vo,
had any strikes" "Oh. no." he said
| J never had any trouble" "What plan
/ 90 you pursue?' He said: II will tell
/ you. All my men know every year lust
/ no" matters stand. Every little while
/ call them together and say: Vow.
/ boys. last year / made so much: this
/ year ] made less: so y,,u. 600 ,..,,,..,
| Pay as much as J did last year. Now.
I want TO know what you think ought
/ 10 nave as a percentage out Of this es-
/ adjustment and what wages ought 10
| give you. You know put all my en-
ergy in this business. put all my for
tune in il and riskcd everything. What