The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-03


l am glad to meet you I have been
laDorlng in the interest of the laboring
man ever since | became a sober man
'nlrly-one years ago. ThaUs a long
Whlle between drinks, don't you Think
tell you it makes a difference wheth-
ef you are drinking man or not I
USED TO give money to the other fell
low Those days / would see his wife
wearing purple dresses, while my wife
mad to go around in calico; his wife
wore sealskin sacks, but all I could
give mine was thin jacket. When
tue woman in the sealskin jacket went
into the car, all the men fell over
themselves in a hurry to give her a
seat; now my wife has the sealskins,
and she gets her seat in the car The
man who saves his money Is the one
that gets ahead. If you do that you
will sometime become bloated bond
holders. Two or three of you get to-
gether and unite, try profit sharing as
my friend here suggests Save your
money. 1t is money that talks, after
all. ]. Pierpont Morgan has a big load
to carry. He can't sleep nights on &C
count of worry. / can sleep without
the slightest trouble; nothing to worry
me. The laborers are the happiesr men
in the world. Get all you can from
capital. We are a selfish lot OF people,
selfish with our wives, the most of us.
Don't be stingy; divide WITH your wife
and family, so she doesn't have to
hunt you UP every time she wants to
ride in the car. Be happy. Labor has
done whatever has been done; the best
, thing for labor is to start a little coll
lege somewhere educate half a dozen
boys there; make mathematicians OF
them; send them to compete against
capital. Stay by the boys; don't spend
your time in the saloons, swapping
! lies. Education is the thing labor
needs. Then go to Morgan and tell
him what part of the profit OF industry
should go to labor. / came to America
when l was sixteen. What would Ire
land do without America, I wonder!
And then, again, l wonder what Amer
lea would do without Ireland. A Judge
was once driving along with an Irish
man for a companion, when he said:
| Pat, it would be a long time in Ire
land before you would get to be rid
| ing with a judge
| Yes answered the Irishman, and
I'm a thinkin' 1t wud be gud long
! time before you would be gettin' to be
a judge if you was in Ireland
| There is no excuse for ignorance
now. man not educated is at ter
rible Disadvantage; that IS what caus-
es strikes, lack of education. Labor
must have a just and righteous share
of toll. and if it can show righteous
and just cause, public sentiment Will
compel capital to do what's right.
Nearly all the decent men in this coun-
| try are laboring men, so you should
| be proud of yourselves. That's the
| trouble with the laboring man: he
| hasn't got the respect for himself that
he should have. The American labor
| ing man is the soberest in the world;
! in England there is twice as mucn
drinking among the laboring classes as
in America America is running over
the whole world with her product. We
have got to have Andrew Carnegie; we
need him. Carnegie was only a poor
Scotch boy a few years ago. Now he
gives millions to libraries and TO edu-
cation in Scotland. Some OF you men
don't like that, but 1 tell you the Ii
brary is the best thing in the world
for you. Education is what IS needed
by the laboring man" The speaker
paid a glowing tribute to Abraham
Lincoln, who, he said was a laboring
man, a rail splitter, who studied law
at nights, worked his way up until he
attained the highest gift at the dis
posal of the people. He hailed Lincoln
as my hero; the original successor TO
the Son of Cod
This day should be the beginning OF
a more careful investigation, and each
Individual should ask What shall / do
to bless myself, my family and my
country