The age-herald., 1899-11-05

is the true developer and elevator of labor, and has my sanction, cooperation and friendship. I understand there has been some .desultory conversations between members of the union and members of our association, but so far as l know there has never been any sta tement of grievances by representative authorized committee from the Trades Council to the governing body of the Alabama State Fair association. Even at the eleventh hour, after l have been convicted and sentenced by the Trades Council without a hearing and without teS- timony, if they will make it known to me how l can serve them either organi- zation fighting for life and bread against the merciless hand of power, or as individ- uals in distress, I will not offer stones for bread. The paltry dollars to be paid into the State fair treasury is a matter of con- tempt to me compared with the honest ap- peal of a human being demanding honest bread for honest labor No, gentlemen of the labor unions, l would not wrong one of. you. I would rather see the finest blast furnace or the most magnificent rolling mill that marks the mineral districts of the earth stricken by the lightning of God and shattered into atoms and fragments than to know that one child of labor was hungry and without bread.
 I have just read MT. w. H. Stanley's ad- dress before the city council. do not Know the gentleman, but he is not a wise exponent of intelligent labor. He reviles labor; he depreciates and humiliates the pride of labor when he says: When Ad- miral Schley is riding in the carriage on the streets, we-the laboring people-will be running along after him with our mouths open. You cannot recall an instance where distinguished citizens have been entertained where the man who earns his living by the sweat of his brow stuck his feet under the table," It looks like folly to offer a reply to this gentleman, whose temper has car ried him so far beyond the bounds of his-. tory and truth It seems useless for me to try to reason with a genius who glories in excess, but, as a defender of honorable, in- telligent labor, I rebuke him for the sorry, grotesque picture he paints of labor. In the city of Montgomery I saw a man who had handled the pick and the shovel for a live lihood sit on the platform with President Cleveland, an honored guest, and the peer of any there A United States senator from Alabama and one from Kentucky, who for many years honored our retion In the high CT branch of congress, were working boys and men. Beck, once the southern Titan of the senate, broke rock on the bikes of Kentucky, and James l.. Pugh carried the mails along the dusty roads of Barbour. Numbers of the very highest railroad off, cials sprung from the lowest rung of the ladder. And to take MT. Stanley into the very highest realms of social distinction, if that Is his idea of a working mans Elys- ium, I will cite him to the origin of Owen Tudor, a Welsh working man, who finally married the widow of Henry ", Katherine of Valos, kings daughter, and from them descended the most powerful dynas ty of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Henry VII. and VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. Again, the great baronial house of De la Pole Duke of Suffolk, the heir of which married Edward the Fourth's sister, was founded by working man of Hull.
 Oh, no, Mir. Stanley, reputable honorable labor, the bulwark and foundation stone of civilization of the earth. does not run along after anybody's carriage with it's mouth open. When you snapped your in- teilectuai kodak you caught by mistake a tramp, a hoodlum whose tongue was lolling out over his rags in anticipation of scraps from some honorable worloingmans table. What tho on homely fare we dine,
 Wear hodden-grey. and a thaft
 Gde fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
 A mans a man, for a that"
 Nothing Has Been Spared
 The State Fair association has spared neither time, money nor mental activity in fits purpose to achieve what no other asso- citation has accomplished. The state and county exhibits wdll be the most extensive and of the very highest quality and charac- ter-an honor to Alabama. The individual exhibits are numerous,