The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-07-09

.dynamiter, communist and anarchist
have no right on American soil. This
country, preserved by the valor of as
heroic men as laid down their lives in
the struggles of 1776 and in 1861 and
later still in 1898, must not now afford
an asylum for the refuse and scum of
the Old World. We must have most
cordial sympathy for, and with anti
poverty societies, but not for those of
the agitator who harangues solely to
disturb, and THEN only when paid a
good price. The anti-poverty societies
We should have sympathy with have
existed in this country from the land
ing of the Mayaower. Plymouth Rock
received the seed of them at the hands
of the Pilgrims. The brave men of
revolution, and those of 81 and '65
fought and died for it; how strange it
is-our boys of '9S caught the inspira-
ton and it has spread and fiourishei
for more than two hundred and eighty
years. and today these anti-poverty So
cleties are numbered by millions.
Some own acres, others a lot, some
more, some less, but all arc industri-
ously at work against poverty. Their
faith is in the soil, the mine, the work.
shop, the case, the forge or the bench,
and tho f,1t,,rn will rrNun- hat tIau
have been true, long after the profess
sional agitator is dead and forgotten:
these are the manly men and womanly
women. They will not see their wives
hungry or their children naked. Their
limbs may become weary and the bur.
den of toll rest heavily upon them, but
quaint poverty will never sit at their
humble boards or cast its shadow upon
their cheerful hearths. THIS IS
LABoR-HONEST, NOBLE AND DIGNI-
FLED, and the capital that would at
tempt to crush it out deserves your
honest condemnation and the frown of
Almighty God. Let us remember al
ways that labor and capital are abso-
lutely reciprocal. The ruling element
lives neither under the red flag of Hay
market in Chicago, nor in the pockets
of New York's Wall street magnates.
HERE EVERY MAN IS A KING AND
EVERY WoMANIs A QUEEN. Plymouth
and jamestown we're the starting
points of the real labor movement in
America. Plymouth represented free
labor. and jamestown that of the
slaves, and for two hundred and fifty
years they commended for the mastery.
Out of the one grew free schools, pub
lie libraries, free debate. and that
magnificent doctrine of a government
'of the people, by the people and for
the people," At jamestown an oil
garchy was formed. Under that James
town system, to labor vas a degrade
ton. "THERE. education was for the
master, ignorance for the laborer.'
The n held the whip, the other the
hoe. The great civil war for the pre-
servation of the Union from 1861 to '65,
carried the banner of Plymouth. Out
OF every guns muzzle there sped this
doctrine and out of every lannon's
mouth there went the thunder Of it's
truth. Your boys in blue of Crawford
county died for it, the living fought for
it, and the hosts who sleep in the GENE
teries of Iowa and all over the loyal
North, as we'll as in nameless graves in
the sunny South, ALL gave up their
lives for that system, and thank God it
wa triumphant, and no slave exists to-
day on American soil. On these 4th
of July days, let us renew our devotion
to these principles, let us remember
that the disciplined ranks of all divis-
ions of the Grand Army of labor MUST
march to the music of liberty and law,
and with their ranks and to the same
music, capital MUST keep step. Ihave
an abiding faith in the meaning of that
word, Humanity, and I believe that it
is needed today MORE than law, to
bridge the needless chasm between in
dustrial relationship in other words be-
tween capital and labor. This fact
must stare us IN the face, that the MAN
is MORE THAN THE SHOP, the miner
more than the mine, the engineer more
than his engine, the fireman more than
the boiler, the carpenter more thar the
bench, and the blacksmith more than
the forge. When this sentiment is put
into practical execution the clouds will
roll away and an end shall come to Bit
ter industrial contests.
What we want, my fellow citizens,
today is more of the spirit of old John
Adams. That mans intensity of pur-
pose was well shown in those "sink or
swim days, when he drove the Declar-
alton of independence through con
gress. Said Charles Sumner: HE had
more backbone than would serve for