The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-09-03
LABOR DAY.

lean national holidays, will have its
There will be a general suspension OF
business. and the day will be given
over to parade, oratory and social en-
joyment. 1t Is perhaps not out or the
way to note that while the American
workingmen are honoring the day set
apart for them by act of the Congress,
the former queen, surrounded by heT
friends, will celebrate her birthday,
with all of the old time pomp that may
be summoned
Labor Day was instituted that
throughout the nation attention might
be called to that vast and important
| body of tho citizens of the nation, the
bone and sinew of the Republic, whose
tasks call for untiring attention to
their performance. That the right TO
organize may be exemplified, for with
out organizations there would be no
celebration, nor in fact would there be
n day TO celebrate. It is essentially
lday on which the dignity and NOBILITY
of labor may be eulogized and apostro-
phized. and the men whose tons are
thus gloritied see in their part in the
greatness of the nation "A new meaning
and significance.
What the nation owes to the men
who have made the name of American
worliingman famous, is incalculabIe' II
was not always the man whose praih
gave birth to the great idea VINO ue-
served the credit of the invention which
revoIutionized a trade or business. IL
is more often the man who. working al
the lathe or bench, thought out the
practical application of the machine OF
the fun working OF the part. 1t was
lno, ALWAYS the thinker who could put
into concrete form his idea for the
saving of labor. but his suggestion mas
more often been made applicable To "A
, plant by the workman. 1t Is To the
hard working and conscientious man
before the hammer and the roll, at the
furnace and the forge. that the pre-
, Ieminence OF American manufactures "i
steel and iron are due. 1t was WORK
man who made the steam engine what
, il is. a workman who made the SPIN
ming Jenny the practical machine, VINO
enabled the air-brake and car-couplihE
to be successfully applied.
No nation has produced such accur-
ate and painstaking workmen as 'hose
T..
whose handiwork now spans the
streams of the world. ploughs the
oceans into productive commercial fur-
rows and draws the commerce OF the
nations along the iron highways. 1t Is
not all that the workmen OF our coun =
. try have in them the blood of all ma
> lions, that they combine the thought
fitness of the Briton and the skill OF
IN. CAM the tonaCity of the TeutOn
b, and the versatility or the Lat'h' p"'
n, with the freedom OF the Repuphc ma,
. come an era of general education anu
. of special information whlch mas never
" before been equalled. Coupled with 'h'
, qualities which have made the ieaurtS
'. in state and war-craft, there Is In inc
American workman an minnie cap"c'
ity for taking pains. In no other couh'
y try do the shops turn OUT $" muci
high grade work all because the mel
who have made the name american
~ stamped upon a product a guarantee %
" quality have been schooied TO 90 'hei
best with the most insignificant part
y SO that the finished product Is com
" bination of perfectly made portions,
'e 1t IL perhaps the first time that La
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WORK uePehus upon 'he "orhihs vi d
'he .raues "hich are concerned III u,
turning out "t 'ne ultimate Pronue''
Is now 'he question Oh .he 'ht'ruepeho
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