The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-12-15

On the day following the recent cleo
ton Mayor Samuel Jones of Toledo
made an address to the men employed
in his factory known as the Acme
Sucker Rod company. With slight
emission the address is as follows:
MY dear friends, 1 hope that all
of you and all of the people Of the
country feel as comfortable over the
| result of the election as I do. I have
said many times that an election is
| mere incident in the campaign that
am engaged in, and of no election that
| the one that took place yesterday. I
am for everything this morning that
worked for in the campaign and
against everything that I worked
against in the campaign. I am fog a
social and political order that will be
true in everv detail to the idea of
equality, that all men are created
equal. l am for the social system that
will grant to every baby born on the
planet equality of opportunity with
every other baby. I am against a sys-
tenn that destroys a few by making
them inordinately rich while it de-
stroys many by making them inordi-
nately poor. I am for peace, for har-
mony, for heaven. I am against war
and hate ana hell. I am against the
war of conquest that we are now car
rying on in the Philippine Islands. I
am against government by force any,
where and for government by consent
everywhere. I believe that the first
step toward a more just social order is
to put an end to the killing that is
carried on in the name of war. The
way to stop murder is to quit killing
people. AS long as states and nations
kill their enemies the spirit of murder
will be kept alive and individuals will
occasionally kill theirs. I took a stand
for Mr.. Bryan because I believed that
was the way I could make my influ-
ence most effective toward this first
step. In every particular I have been
true to the highest and hottest impulse
Of my soul, and I have nothing to re-
gret. For that reason if had the ex-
perience to go through again should
do just the same.
MY only hope and all of my hope is
in the patriotism of the people, the love
of man for man. I have no hope in any
kind of partyism. Moreover, I have
said SO on hundred platforms.
AT the heart of every human soul
there is a desire to do the right, the
good, the true, the lovable thing. Moth
ing will ever swerve me from this be-
lief. The love of the good, of the
= oil nf ic 1n !,
of all humanity. None of us are so
good that we have a monopoly on it
and none of us so bad as to be entirely
without it. From the foundation of the
world truth has been gaining ground.
| The social instinct, real socialism
brotherhood, has firmer hold in the
human heart to day than ever before,
and know the truth is thus steadily
gaining. 5 .4sS:s,ss B s ls. g
IL can candidly say that IN d certain
sense do not care who wins in a
campaign. My anxiety is not to be
with the winning side. My only con-
Germ is to be with the truth, knowing
that truth is always triumphant There
is really no foundation in fact for the
great confidence that we have in ma
is called majority rule, and that is
right. 1t was not with Luther at the
right on our present planet, but it by
no means follows that majorities are
always right. Indeed they have been
| oftener wrong in the great events Of
history than they have been right. The
majority was not with Jesus in the aw-
full agony of Calvary, but Jesus was
right. 1t was not with William Lloyd
diet of Worms. 1t was not with Mi
chael SerVetus, John Huss or Latimer
and Kidney when they were burned at
the stake, but their martyrdom lit the
fires of religious liberty, and they were
| Garrison when he was dragged through
| Boston streets by a mob dressed in
broadcloth or David Lovejoy when he
suffered violence at the hands of an H.
linois mob, but they were right. The
majority was not with John Brown
when in his zeal to liberate the slaves
he went with a handful of men into
Virginia, where he afterward suffered
death on the scaffold, but John Brown
was right So the majority that today
have apparently Endorsed the doctrine
OF the right of government to exist by
force, the doctrine Of might over right,
may be wrong. The feature alone will
tell. believe it is:
Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Il Keeping watch above his own.
I'VE are to improve our system of
politics to correspond with the me-
rial improvements that have been
made since the days of Washington
and Jefferson. Partyism is passing
Conventions and bosses will not rule
the people much longer. They will
nominate their own candidates by free
petition and make their own laws by
direct legislation.
The only advie, the only counsel