Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-11-20
text here: ''many shall run to and fro
and knowledge shall be increased"

and knowledge shall be increased"
How different when we saw but few
years ago, men and women who had
never been outside of their own COM
munities, living on their own narrow,
preiudical traditions "There were
villages in England in the 10th century,
in which the inhabitants melted their
dogs to attack any stranger whose
curiosity led him to visit them" Add
to any mans knowledge and you add
to the world in which he then lives.
Russia has especially realized this in
the education of her peasantry. Now
the little education they have already
obtained has caused no little amount
of rioting, restlessness of mind, in fact
it has melted the Russian authorities
to restrict the advance of education
among the lower classes. In the words
of Count Tolstoi, we find an order to
fleet, that at"gymnasia, high schools
and universities will henceforth refuse
to receive as pupils the children of do
nestle servants, peasants, etc." But if
such reaction can take place in Rus
sia, here it cannot. We educate as one
has well said, ''our own masters" We
cannot turn bac, owledge will in
crease Popular wants will be more
aud more in evidence. They will
mold and change by remolding con-
stantly. What was good once is no
longer good, it must be better The
multitude of people here in our own
land have tasted of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil and have
become aware of their nakedness
The masses of the people now will
never be satisfied until their wants are
supplied with the increased fullness of
modern civilization. Public libraries,
schools, art galleries, museums, parks,
newspapers, etc, all have tended to
elevate the common people'to Il level
The workingman has twice as much
money today in his pocket as h is
father, but because he knows ten times
as much, he wants ten times as much,
the same as the capitalist-and so his
discomfort. The circumstances in a
workingman's life are often nodded by
conditions under which he works.
There was an age of bomespun, where
individual competed with individual.
This was mutual as each knew the other
as fellow. workman.
Then this organization extended by
degrees into factory made up of many
men, but controlled by one So the
iebSbOAg bCSslii1C l'GtL Y vi tb SUSJl,
the town itself was appropriated by it's
manufacturers and SO on until to-day we
find many factories and systems Join
together and known of as "a combine"
OF course the mutual relation between
employer and employee was e3t"anged
as the industry grew. Each new stage
has developed with it a growing ami
mostly, while inUeRtioa has caused dis
turbed industry and required more or
less extended readiustment of labor.
Thousands are thrown out of employ
ment but ultimately invention adds
much to this present world machine and
ten thousand find employment. True
those who are thrown out are Obliged to
haveto learn something new and this
obliges once again apprenticeship. Bat
where one loses, ten gain, finding easier
work and better wages, after a pre-
scribed time. 1t is just here that the
Workingman wishes protection in some
Way;he fears that he will learn someday
that his work, the strength and skill of
his hands have been made useless by
the invention of some new machine.
Combination also tends to attract the
workingman to bigger and brighter ad-
vantages. The farmers price of wheat
is regulated by market, yet his help de-
mands better hours and wages. Not
obtaining it they go to the city and
find employment at far better hours
| and wages The fact that wheat can
be sent from Chicago to England at q
| cheaper price per bushel, than English
| farmers can raise it, has compelled thous
ands of tarm-labOrers to seek city EN-
ployment. Everybody, laborerand cap.
italist alike, desires readiustments so as
to benefit himself 1t is selfish The
moral question is seldom advocated in
the interest of all; the good of one
| another as brother to brother is not the
sentiment in comparing capital and
labor or labor and capital The relig
ious view which should over shadow
all, including as it does the moral, is a
| mocked standard. st. PauPs exhortation
''to use the things of this world as not
| abusing them'' seldom receives any con
| sideration. Man in the use of this
| world 'sgoods, yes the worlds life itself
| is essentially unchristian and selfish
! But the honest workingman Of to day
wants work not as fdU0r but as a riqht
Call man moral and Christian who
! gives a man in dire necessity unjust
wages reaping the harvest of plentiful.
ness for himself In the general pros
! perity 200, 900 or less reap the harvest.
all of these simply enormous, and in
| the face of it all workingmen are prac
tically standing still, or worse of.
But his wants are increasing with his
! intelligence. Not that he is poorer,
but for the amount of toll and labor,
in the receipts, there is great dispar,
! ity or unequalness. Says Seth Low:
"There seems to be an absolute i'm.
/ provenent in industrial conditions
/ but can we certainly say that this has
/ been relatve?'' "That the condition
/ Of the workingman in this country has
materially improved is stoutly debated
! but the question whether there has
been most wonderful material progress
I in general is not debatablen "a
miner knows, says Strong, spaiologis,
"thal Il carload of coal can be mined,
made ready for trket, and loldeI in
+ one half the time that it required ten
years ago, but hi3 wages are not doubL
cd 30 Nor docs this mem tltf every
body ought 10 rereiye.an equal dppor
tlonment but simply his Just due, and
This puid raise h.Wuaosu want Stv,
atro.., Ntbe annual iuerggse uf wealth