The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-05

| the topic for the afternoon. All members
are earnestly requested to be present as
business of importance is to be transacted.
In Society.
| Mrs. B. j. McClary and children have
returned from Camp Springs. Ca. where
+, they have been passing the summer.
Miss Mary Anna Timer, of Demopols Is
| the guest of Miss Ethel Morrow.
Mrs. James Tanner is expected to return
| home this week from Gadsden.
|
| Miss Annie Vanhoose, who has been the
| guest of Mrs. ]. T. Searcy in Tuscaloosa,
| has returned home.
: Miss Lucy Winston and Miss Johnnie
Winston, of Eutaw, who have been spend
| ing part of the season at Blount, are
the guests of Mrs. Sydenham Moore.
|
| Judge James B. Head returned Sunday
| from Baltimore and the Virginia coast.
He is greatly improved in health and his
friends are delighted to see him looking
so well after his long illness. Mrs. Head
| preceded Judge Head returning from Bal
timore several days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs H. H. Mayberry left Sun
day for New York.
| Miss Carrie Browne has returned from
Spring Hill, Tenn, where she has been
spending the summer.
Miss Alice Moore has cards out for a
! dance 1nis evening.
Mrs Walker Percy and her children are
spending several weeks at st. Clair.
Mrs. S. D. Weakley and Miss Eula
| Weakley are at Blount.
Robert Smith arrived on Sunday from
Mobile and is the guest of his mother,
Mrs. Alice Smith,
Turner Weakley has returned from
Chicago.
Miss Rennie Leigh Head is in Green's
boro.
the tomb of the rich man, Joseph, thus
uniting the rich and the poor in eternal
! mansions, not made with hands. The
| struggle was not for class supremacy, but
! for the union of all classes in labor for
mankind.
I'm these primary labor unions the young
men taught their first lessons in life's
responsibilities, and their earliest appre-
citation of the dignity of labor.
1.-THE hod-carriers and brick masons of
Egypt redeemed great race from bond
age, under the leadership of Moses, a great
law-giver and herdsman and the Carpen-
ter of Nazareth redeemed the world from
sin and rose from the tomb, prepared by a
great lawyer of Jerusalem, to take his
place on the final judgment seat. Thus,
the highest exaltation of soul and body be-
came the ripened fruit and ineff1ble re-
ward of a life of labor. The dignity of la
Dor is thus identified with the supreme
command l have quoted.
I'm the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
| thy daily bread"
Primary Labor Union
"a primary labor union that would teach
a young man that his personal liberty is a
| mere license to violate the law, or that any
| sort of degrade ton is consistent with the
honor and dignity of labor, or that it is a
| legitimate office of a labor union to Cypress
| others, or to prevent them from earning
their daily bread, has no part in the glori-
| Gus honors of labor, in the life that is and
| in the life to come, which crown it with
eternal benedictions.
"These labor unions If they will rise to
the true level of duty. will be the nurseries
| of all that Is good in human endeavor, and
| in doing this they will attain to a moral
| power in the world next only to the power
| of Chris tianity.
LET us ascend from the level of unskilled
| labor, which has no organized associations,
| through all the grades of skillfu1 labor to
the highest, and We will find in each grade
| a necessary experience upon the grades
above and the grades below 1t.
| I'm these gradations the lines of division
| are marked first, by capacity, and then by
| skil-but not by toll nor by exemption from
| ifc M aTfG or q
| are not master workmen. All being toiers,
there is no aristocracy in labor and no
| primacy in leadership derived from any
| source except the free choice of the labor
ers
Obedience to Law
| obedience to the law even when the
| judges and executioners were corrupt and
| cruel, was the injunction of the Carpenter
| of Nazareth, whom we love to recognize as
our Master.
1.-THE honors of the laborer in the United
States class with the highest that have
| been won by admirals, generals, jurists,
| legislators, scientists and divines. Amer
lean history abounds in these triumphs, to
which there seems to be no bounds set in
the future.
'I have some examples, drawn from my
personal observations, that will mention
| to illustrate the value of labor in mechanic
arts, instructed by the benevolent care of
the master mechanic, in leading genius
| from the obscurity of poverty and the
shades of ignorance into light and power,
such as crown nations and races with glo-
| ry, and, as If by anticipation, reflect mil
| lennial blessings upon all the world.
| Recorded in History
"These men, whom will name, need no
| help from me to illustrate their history, for
all civilized people have recorded 1t, and 1t
| repeats its own story on land and sea ev-
cry hour of the day and the night to all
mankind. The stars In their courses are
scarcely more beautiful majestic, or
more significant the witnesses of that
| grandest of all recorded DEGREES, God said
let there be light, and there was light"
than the incandescent light of Edison
And that other decree, which placed the
land and waters, and all that in them is,
under the dominion of man, was never
more perfectly executed than Irving NJ
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