The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-04
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| push tny business.
THY birthday is an active and good one
and with care thou wilt succeed, yet be
| very careful of risk and speculation. and
| do no offence"
| "A child born on this day will be clever
and successful. whether in employ or bus
| mess for itself"
Astrologer RaphaeIs prophecies for
Wednesday, September 8. 1900:
avoid women"
run no risks in business
Expect law losses, annoyance, and af-
Fiction; thy affairs will all go wrong, and
thou wilt have sad year in every way
"a child born this day will be very
| rash and unfortunate in all it undertakes;
| it should keep in employ"
Bake bread; brew not strong drink"
| Workingmen were in possession of the
town and much of the suburbs yesterday,
and everybody else received them gladly.
| The appearance of the men as they passed
through the streets was praiseworthy in
emphatic degree, and none was so ungrac-
| ious aus to withhold commentator. Their
| individual appearance was distinctly good
| and study of each face and each figure
| taught the outside observer that which
| perhaps needed lesson in the mighty
forces inherent in labor as it is organized
| here in the Birmingham district.
The in general looked well and
| bore themselves as well as could have a
similar number from the best of the So
| called professions-a term come to mean
| anything or nothing, ranging from burglars
| and quack corn-doctors to court beauties
| and prime ministers, but being in fact an
| other name for trades honest and dishon-
| est. Those strong men, real men, who cell
| ebrated Labor Day would have it perfectly
| understood that they are not professional
persons, but are tradesmen, enlisted priv
| ates in the army of tradesunionists. That
| is just what they are, and that tells very
] largely the story of their success in pro-
| noting their own interests and the general
| interests OF the community.
|
1.-The immense crowds which lined the
| streets to watch the labor parade were
| proof of deepseated friendly interest not
| mere curiosity, on the part of the general
public said a student of sociology. Every
man and every woman who labors for daily
weekly, or monthly wage are concerned and
deeply interested in everything that makes
for improvement in any relation of those
whom necessity forces to be hired servants
| of one sort or another.
'"rhere are enormous numbers of work.
ingmen and workngwomen in offices and
places of business of all classes who are
no less laborers because they are not re-
ceived into the unions. 1t doesn't matter
what they are, if they work for stipulated
prices of hire they are in the worlds count
mere hirelings; and that is why the streets
| of Birmingham were so densely crowded
yesterday when the labor parade passed
| by. Many of the onlookers not only know
| nothing of eight hours limit, or ten, or
| even twelve or more hours a working
| day, but they have no prospect of ever hav-
| ing such knowledge; and perhaps very few
| of them know anything about extra pay.
Still their sympathies abundantly go out
| to those who do have such knowledge and
such rights. The poor plea is frequently put
up that organized labor is sometimes I'M
wise, exorbitant, or extravagant in its de-
! mands. On broad generalities, is organized
| labor any more so than the employers of
| labor?
| 1.-THE banks and the great houses of bus
| mess were closed yesterday, business was
| practically suspended, in honor OF labor
| That means great deal when we consider
| that one of the stores of Birmingham en-
i ploys three hundred persons. And certainly
\ labor made an admirable display The
| personal appearance of the men, and the
/ parade in general could not be easily ex-
| celled in this country or any country
| When legends of Labor Day hang on the
| closed doors of great commercial houses,
| that is sign that labor is doing great things
| in the social life of the land
| 1t is almost singular that amongst the
| two or three hundred persons comprising
| the anti-liquor meeting in Ensley Sunday
| night there was not one who was prepared
| to testify of his or her knowledge that
| there was a single blind tiger in the
| town. Thus the proceedings of the meet
| ing were based apparently upon hearsay
! evidence coming secondhand or otherwise
| One of the ministers declared that he saw
| a man in place supposed to be evil pour
| ing something out of a bottle into a glass
| which looked like whisky; and that was
| the nearest approach to direct evidence.
| Still there has been for many months
| a great deal of public talk about Illicit
| traffic in Intoxicating drinks at Ensley.
When the recent grand jury was spending
| weeks in doing one thing or another, or at
| any rate trying to do something, it was
| common talk that there were twenty-five
| blind tigers in Ensley or it's immediate
| vicinity. But how many indictments were
! found? The grand jury simply could not
! obtain evidence that warranted indictments.
| 1t was reported about the court house that
| one man, in another district of the county
who offended the liquor laws was indicted
on seventeen different counts, and then he
| vas given the wrong initials; thus proving
the difficulties under which the grand jury
| labored. The charge repeatedly made that
| the grand jury was wasting It's time on
| trivial charges may have been true; but
as to the Illicit traffic in liquor the grand
| jury was heavily handicapped.
| The chief immediate effect of Sunday