The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-01
INTEREST OF NLW FEDERATION
WHICH WILL DEMAND LEGISLA-
TION IN THE INTEREST
OF LABOR
MR. MARKHAMS NEW POEM
Was the Feature OF the Post
prandiaI OratOry Which En-
ivened the Oc-
cnSiOn.

simmer was gwen tonight at
Arlington hail, Nos. 10 and
2S ST. Marks pace, under the
auspices of the Workingmen or
New York and was called La
bur's Greeting to the Twen ,
tieth Century, 1t was project
oG hS the committee Of one hun
dred, which was organized to
call convention on Jan. IA
neNt, in Cooper union, to estab-
lish in New York city a fedora
uou or council of delegates
from labor and reform societies
which shall demand that legis-
lators frame the will of the peo-
Pie on matters of the tenement
house problem, sweat shop sys-
TEN, etc.
The following names of speak,
ers and toasts were at each
place.
Ernest II. Crosby, toastmas-
ter The Triumph of Labor"
J. Swinton; Industrial Peace"
Bishop Potter; The Hours of
Labor" " George f. McNein;
The Right to Live" Henry
George, Jr.: The Ideal of Cit.
izenship," r. Fulton Cutting;
Legislation" John Ford; "The
Ioople's Unity" Joseph Baron
dess; The City Of New York"
Bird S. Coler; "Labor's Need"
Michael A. Fitzgerald; and A
Century Poem" by Edward
Markham.
Following is the poem from
Edward Markham:
We stand here at the end Of
mighty years
And a great wonder rushes on
the heart
While cities rose and blossomed
into dust
While shadowy lines of kings
were blown to air
What was the purpose brooding
on the world
Through the large leisure of
the centuries?
And what the end-failure or
victory?
10 man has laid his sCepter on
the stars
And sent his spell upon the con-
The heavens confess their Sc
crets and the stones,
Silent as God, publish their
mystery.
Man calls the lightnings from
their secret place
To Crumple upon the spaces
of the world
And snatch the jewels from the
flying hours.
The wild white smoking horses
of the sea,
Are startled by His thunders,
The World-pOwers
Crowd round to be the laclNeys
OF the king.
His hand has torn the veil OF
the great law,
The law that was made before
the wOrlds-before
That far first whisper on ocean
deep:
The yaw that swings Arturus
on the north,
And hurls the soul of man
upon the way.
But what avail, O builders of
the world,
Unless We build a safety for the
soul.
Man has put harness on Levi
athan,
AMI hooks In his incorrigib,e
jaws;
And vet the perils of the street
remain.
Out of the whirlwind of the
cities rise
Lean hunger and the worm Of
misery,
The heartbreak AMI the cry
OF mortal tears.
But hark, the bugles blowing
on the peaks;
And hark, @ murmur as OF
mSny feet;
The cry of captains, the divine
alarm;
Look the last son of Time
comes hurrying on
The strong young Titan of De-
mpcracy,
With swinging step he takes
the open road
In love with the winds that
beat his hairy breast,
baFlnS LIS SunbuTnt strength
TO all the world,
sic casts his eyes around with
JoVian glance
SeaschcS the tracks Of old
traditions; scans
Nlth rebel heart the book Of
pedigree;
Peers into the face Of prestige
and cries:
W ny ere you halting in the
path Of man?
is II Your shoulder bears w.
human lead?
Do YOU draw down tba rains
Of the sweet heaven
ana Keep the green things
w, SLoWlhs Back to hell"
we hIloW at last the future Is
God Is descending from etern-
Ana all, all things, good and evil.
Yes, down in the tbicl, or
thihGs, the men of creed
Are humping the inhosniteblo
clay. ''' 0- - ID 'ie
hy Wondrous tolls the mon
without the dream.
LED onward by something nm
aMaTeS
Are laying the foundations of
~ OF the dream.
Inc Kingdom Of fraternity fore
CoLER's SPEECH.
Mr; Coler spoke as follows:
The workingmen can oc
cemplish anything they under
take If they will make their
tool the ballot box instead ~
bONcOttS TheV haVe - ~