Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-17

tbo u.ooi,L -, ,ha ooo,,la i,,, ,ho ,,ossas,
sion of few men. unless the laborinR
mon of this country and all countries
band together tbev will 20 under. There
is n lawful use of trade union. but then
there is nm unlawful use of n trade union.
If il means sympathy in time of sickness.
IL il means finding work for people when
they are ont of work. IL IL means the i'm
provement of the financial. the moral or
the religious condition of the laborng
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 band together in
conferences and associations? There il
not in all the land city where clergy
men do not come together, many Of them
once week, to talk over affairs. For
these reasons you should not blame labor
guilds. When they are doing their legtti-
mate 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 communistc, then they are
barbarc then they are n curse. II man
wants to stop work. let bin stop work.
but he cannot stop me from work.
But now suppose that all the laboring
classes banded together for benehccnt
purposes in cooperative association I'M
der whatever name they put their means
together Suppose they take the money
that they waste III rum and tobacco and
use 1t for the elevation of their families,
for the education of their Children for
their moral, intellectual and religious i'm
provement what a different state OF
things we would have in this country and
they would have in Great Britain.
Better without stimuInnts.
DO Won not ronlize tho fact thar mo,
w(.l, hottor ,,.;thout stimuIort9 Won
Gov ..V;u vo, Jor, tho lohorir, men
mis- holm which tbor cot from s+rong
dr;n,, hnrro Io,vr Nc tbo,. ara with r,onY
nnviotios and oxbnrstin,, work ." would
DOW tbor, nothing thot is GOOD for th.rn
would donv them strong drinl II I h,d
tba nnr.or boc,use II is dn,o,-irc to
thor, Nv so+barso;d 81 hacor,n =, tom.
no,nnco man In ,o,lv I;fs hoc,uso
found thar in tbe harvest fold Will,
v.os not,,r,Il, ,,o,lor tbor tho ntbar
men. | could hold out longer than any Of
them. They took stimulant and | took
none
Everybody knows they cannot endure
great fatigue-men who indulge in slim
ulants. All our young men understand
that. When they are preparing for the
regatta or the ball club or the athletic
wrestling, they abstain from strong
drink. Now, suppose all this money that
is wasted were gathered together and
put into cooperative insttutions-oh, we
would have very different state Of
things from what we have nowi
remark again: The laboring classes
of this country are to find great relief
when they learn. all of them learn, fore
cast and Providence. Vast numbers of
them put down their income, and they
put down their expenses, and if the in
come meets the expenses that is all that
is necessary. | know laboring men who
are in n perfect fdget until they have
spent their last dollar. They dy around
everywhere until they get il spent. A
case came under my observation where a
young man was receiving S7oO wear
and earned il by very hard work. The
marriage dav came. The bride had re-
ceived $500 as an inheritance from her
grandfather. She put the $500 in we'd
ding equipment. Then the twain hired
| two rooms on the third story. Then this
man. who had most arduous employ
ment. Just rs much as he could possibly
endure, got evening employment 40 he
could earn a few dollars more. and nv
this extra evening employment almost
extinguished his eyesight. WHY did he