The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-05
Governor Mount. Address.

Governor Mounts address covered the
field of labor and capital to some extent
and contained pointed remarks on the rights
of each, as we'll as giving his views of the
Importance of labor unions. He recited the
history of strikes and showed that arbi-
tration should take their place. His ad-
dress in full follows:
The observance of Labor day is eminent
ly appropriate. We should extol the agen-
cies that exalt our greatness. We should
honor the people that create our wealth.
Hands and clothing soled by honest toll
should be badges of honor rather than
less whiteness ddes not always cover the
purest heart, and the cleanest hands do not
indicate the most blameless life. In the ie
the divine decree. I'm ali labor there is
profit but the talk of the lips tends only to
is bp as u oa this as
day, dedicated to labor, devote our thoughts
and words to the honoring and uplifting
people of the United States need no empty
encomium of speech. Their achievements
proclaim their honors more eloquently than
The marvellous development of the United
States finds no parallel in the history of
nations. We have outstripped in growth
and surpassed in greatness the mightieSt
nations of earth. We have arisen quickly
to this eminent place of honor and distinc-
ton. 1t is OppOrtune, therefore, tnat we
study the forees that have enabled us thus
to rise to prominence and to power. Within
a century We have compassed a wilderness
and transformed a continent into fruitful
fields yielding abundant harvests. We have
spanned mighty rivers, tunneled mountains.
constructed thoroughfares, builded cities
and towns and dotted the land with happy
homes, schoolhouses and churches. The
land has been gridironed with railroads and
checked and interlaced with telegraph and
telephone lines. We have freighted these
railroads with produce and covered the seas
with commerce. Whence has come this
touched this continent and wrought this
wonderful transformation? The hand of
toll hath wrought nightly In this land,
leaving upon 1t the insignia or beauty and
prosperity.
PRIvATION AND TOLL.
In order that we may enter into closer
unison and more perfect appreciation of
what labor has wrought let us glance for
moment at the privations and hardships in
cident to its mighty achievements. We be-
hold the pioneer as he starts on his mission
of conquest into the unbroken wilds of the
forest. With his earthly possessions loaded
into an emgrant wagon he passes over the
hills, down into the valley and Is lost to
view in the density of the forest If you
penetrate this forest in the early morn you
may see the fash of steel In the sunlight
not of sabre or bayonet, but or the wood
mans ak. Listen and you VIII near the
trees. Look and you will see smoke-not the
smoke of battle. but of the clearing around
the cabin. Listen again and you Will near
music in the cabn-not the SWEET strains
of piano or harp, but notes from the loom
and wheel, blending in harmonious concord
with the strokes of the woodman s ak and
maui in labors song that heraids the COM
ing victory. as grand and far-reaching In
results as any won on the neld OF mortal
combat. From the mine, the mountain, the
forest, the field and fiocks come the things
that are fashioned in furnaces In factories,
in mills and In shops for human comfort,
happiness and prosperity. so wen under
stood is the law that labor creates wealth
and is essential TO growth and greatness
that smokeless chimneys and silent wheels
denote calamity and disaster. The nation
that best employs its productive energy and
stimulates Its creative power through liberal
wages and encouragement 10 inventive
genius is the nation that will most rapidly
augment its products and increase Its
wealth.
The writer of poem supplies want of
the human heart as truly as the miner who
delves into the mountain or descends into
the mine, bringing forth ore and fuel TO
the guidance of the people perform a work
as needful they who fashion at the forge.
The minister who devotes his life to the
spiritual uplifting and moral development of
the people Is laboring truly as they who
provide food and raiment. Mind must con-
troll might. II we would go on prospecting
and TO prosper.
From Mulhall's Dictionary OF Statistics.
fourth edition, at Page 6l3. IL appears that
the food products of the United States In
1896 amounted 10 80, 500. 600 tons. or 10000
tons more than the food product OF the
United Kingdom OF Great Britain. France.
Germany. Italy, Spain. Denmark and Hol-