The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23

them, but, from my STANDPOINT. 1t ap-
pears to be the weaker uniting them
selves to resist, If necessary, the strong
er if they attempt to place the iron heel
of oppression upon them, and surely
no just person can be opposed to this.
Until the golden words of Jesus, What
soever We would that men should do to
you, do We even so to them, are accept
ed by the rich and the strong it Will
be necessary for the weaker ones to
fortify themselves against the oppres-
sor. And your order suggests the sue
cessful way. Let there be concord, har-
mony, united action. The motto of my
native state. United we stand. divided
we fall, words taken from the lips of
the father of our country, are as true as
they are beautiful. United, in harmony,
in perfect concord-what can an order
like yous accomplish? Suppose the
working people of our great country
were in perfect accord? We would not
fear monopolies, the entire Standard
Oil combine with all of Rockefeller's
gold and a thousand more like him.
They might buy UP great concerns as
much as they will: they could combine
and swallow up great corporations and
place their heel of oppression upon the
neck of the laboring class, but 1t would
all be in vain. The Drawn and the brain
of the Workingmen, standing in con-
cord, could successfully resist the mo-
nopoles of the world. But you have
another word in your motto that is the
girdle that holds all the trappings of
your order in place, that places your
fraternity and concord in right relation
to the monopolies and also to other Or
ders like your own: that word Is Love.
Love that binds your brotherhood to-
gether; love. that keeps you in sweet
concord: love- the most beautiful word
of the language. the one that means
hn tl1n nf oil In
| emanating from the Father of Light;
| the grace that shines the brightest and
will last the longest, aye, the grace
that will outlast time and dwell in the
eternities.
I'VE must not forget that corpora
tons are necessary; that all rich men
are not corrupt; that we owe much to
the great firms and corporations. With
out them these mammoth mines would
| never have been opened on the extern
sive scale they are. Let love be the
actuating motive in your work and then
unions will never be curse and fra
ternal organizations will always be a
| blessing.
"The greater question that is before
this country to-day is that of capital
and labor 1t will never be settled by
grasping monopolies, nor by hot-head-
| ed, fanatical workingmen. Cool, DELHI
| crate action is needed on the part of
| the laboring men. I have thought some
| times that unions became grasping and
unreasonable. 1 knew a Sunday school
| not long ago that wanted ito have some
| extra music on Easter morning. and
the chorister was not permitted to blow
a horn on that Eastern morning. The
| Musicians union said if he did they
would fine him SIS or put him out of
the union. Now, Thought that was
carrying unionism little TOO far.
TT is an impossibility for the Sons
! and Daughters of ST. George to come
! together on their anniversary day and
! not think about your mothers, the old
homes and scenes connected with that
| country from which you emigrated.
Nor should you do so. I marry people
sometimes-young ladies and gentle
men, do not forget this-and when I
| do I expect the man to love his wife
| better than he does his mother, and I
would always advise a young couple
if they wish to live happily together to
| leave father and mother and go to
themselves. But is man to forget his
| mother because he loves his wife? BY
no means. A true wife will love her
husband more if he continues to love
his mother. He is not to be always
talking about her, and making his wife
feel that his mother is superior be-
ing to her; that she can't make a cup
of tea like mother can, or that mother
saffron cake was always just right and
hers is miserable makeshift. No, that
is not the thing to do.
''You have come to this country It is
your home. You love it; you have sworn
allegiance to it, but you are not going
to forget the mother country. You
march under the stars and stripes. but
your heart warns at the occasional
Union Jack. Bring it out to-day in this
hail. wave it to the breeze. 1t will not
| harm you, nor make you love our star
ry banner less.
Il do not wonder that you are proud
of the land of your nativity. We are
all proud of her. She occupies the high
est place to-day in the worlds civiliz-
alton. She can boast of having fur
| nished to the world more great men
than any other nation. From the days
of her patron ST. George, the chivalrous,
she has been prolific of great men. Eng
land was the birthplace, London was
| the home of the worlds greatest poet
| William Shakespeare. England produc-
ed a Wellington; Oliver Cromwell was
an Englishman. and Good Queen Bess,
| who in her long, peaceful reign, lifted
England to her pinnacle where Shake
speare could say the beautiful things
| of her. England is the land of liberty;
| the country that laid the foundation
| stone upon which our boasted civil lib
erty rests to-day for she gave to us
magma charta, and from this charter
| of liberty was born the Declaration of
Independence. But reference to the
greatness of England and her great
men would be incomplete without a
mention of the Grand Old Man. who
! died last year, but will live as the flu
ture years come and go. l think I may
justly say American as l am, proud
of the illustrious men America has pro-
duced, honoring Webster and Clay al
most adoring Lincoln as the savior of
our country, giving to Grant and Lee
their need of praise, that the 18th CEN
fury has not produced any man the
equal of William E. Gladstone. Firm
as the rock when duty called him to
| stand: true as the needle to the pole
in his devotion to the principles that
were righteous; answering as a man
can be, as faithful as Paul and as true
as John to the Christ of the gospels
to the Bible as whole and to ortho-
doX Christianity as the religion to lift
man up to God, and as the God given
| princjnla TO make nation great. in