The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-04

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for the machinists and their guests to
! Utah.
President Doran then introduced the
Hon. w L. Maginnis, who was received
with applause.
Mr.. Maginnis' Address.
Hon. w. l. Maginnis spoke in part
as follows:
Some English statesman once sneer-
lngly referred to the American peopie
as a nation of "shopkeepers." in con
tradlstinction, L suppose, to a nation
OF arlstocrats- Our country is not a
nation OF ShOpkeeperS 1t is-and1 we
are proud that it is so-a nation of
Workmen-a nation of workingmen-
Tor every citizen of this republic. ex-
cept the droneS of society from the
president to the humbIest newsbov.
from the railway magnate to the en-
glne wiper, is a worker.
me unthinking politician talks to
you about the markets of the world.
the balance of trade, the open door. but
THESE are mere expressions of ultimate
results. What would thssy all amount
to if it were not for the Drawn and
muscle and the intelligence and inge-
nulty which directs it? It is the quality
or the fruits of our labor that has
forced way into the markets of the
~ SAAA OJCAACQ the 0OOIS OF IOEGlRn
nations to cur products; that has
turned the balance of trade in our ia
Vor- 1t is because of the intelliSence
energy and inVentiveneSS of our labor
ing men that we have taken a fore
most place amongst the nations of the
world
Your steel rails are selling in Biz
mlngham, your Baldwin locomotives
are hauling Russian soldiers from st.
petersburg to China, your moving ma
q
claiming the waste lands of South
America; II is to the music of your
sewing machines that the German
seamstress sings the ever old song of
the shirt; in American constructed cars
you may cross the continent of Europe
and come to a pause at the Golden
Horn; If we are not as yet shipping
Goals to Newcastle, we are shipping
them to London, and ADMINISTRATOR
india thanks God for the brea1stuffs
sent from America.
Labor-Saving Machines.
THE world recognizes the fact that
II 1t becomes necessary the brains that
have evolved our labor-saving machin-
cry can plan and invent death-dealiny
instruments of war and shios to carry
them That the arms and hands
trained, at the sledge and the anvil
can lay down the implements of peace
and take up the repeating rifle at the
COAANA teAll, anu. ABOVE ana Dew l0i
ali else, that the men of America edu-
Gated in this atmosphere of freedom
and cOnJentment; born with a patriot
&c love for the stars and stripes and
the soil it represents. can and will de-
rend that flag with all the honesty
earHestness and intelligence which
characterizes their labor
Labor and Citizenship.
Referring to the duties of citizenship
incumbent on the Iaborfngman. the
speaker said: you must give to If |
some portion of that intelligence and |
ingenuity you devote to your work. (
The political power in this country is |
~ your hands and you must use it If /
you use 1t wisely, if by the exercise of /
-oreslght and judgment you anticipate /
men, almost every question between
capital and labor can be entirely elm |
mated: We need only to glance at the /
of railroad EMPLOYEES TO 60
hat strikes are sgraduaily becon,ine, |
Unknown; your grievance committees
'ettIe practically all the questions that /
rise In more serious matters con-
sress has enacted laws for their pro
ectloh; through its requirements the
dliroadS nave been obliged TO adopt
afety appliances which have to a con
lderaDIe extent decreased the danger
# its service.
Results of Organization.
Let me give. you some figures In
ne use OF automatic couplers, although
my partially in use. the number of
cGldents IN 1897 and 1898 were ONLY
an what they were in 1893 when the |
AW was passed. and yet in 1898 there
we're kllled in coupling cars 279 men
no o,SSS injured We get some idea
4 the saving of human life made i'm
ms one particular when we stop TO
Lllnk that in the late Spanish-A meri- i
an an. war there We're only 29S killed and
,645 wounded s'--O4
Inc speaker enumerated a number of
ther benefits OF Organization amOne
ne laDorlngmeh, including the restric-
ION OF child labor in factories. the en-
ctfhent or the eight-hOur law. the abo-
tlon or contract and pauper ahOr the
mt mt inspection law and the fellow
ervant laws. likewise the great lessen
~ OF the blackfsting law He con
These things and many more which ,
DO not at this moment recall have ,
cen accomplished by your oreanf I
ms ana concerted action On such a |
ay as this it is We'll to ponder on !
lese thlngs of what you have done
nd what you may yet do. Organize /
'r the good of yourselves. organize for.
lie good of the community and fbs
'uiitry' and let your watchwords he
lSuce ana right. law and order. take ! !
1T IN pubic affairs upon the rirbf
ue whenever one of the MANY nar+iaS
dy represent il. and We NOV On -