Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-13

love and law and order" Inspired
with this motto the young workingman
will applaud every move of his coun-
try.
Looks at Patriotism.
Patriotism impels him to don the
military uniform, learn to shoot
straight, so that he will become pro-
ficient in the art of killing, and love
of law and order causes him to turn
his weapons upon his own countrymen
upon his fellow workmen, at the in
stancse of his capitalistic rulers. In
these free democratic countries all
people, in the eye of the law, are
equal, but we, through our differences,
allow society to divide them into or
ders. those possessing the wealth be-
ing the higher order, and those pro-
ducing the wealth the lower, and it is
only in the higher order that we find
the accepted patriot. The lower or
der may produce the men that do all
the fighting, but they are not patriots,
merely tools in the hands of the ac-
cepted patriots to serve their country.
The lower order does all the fighting
and the work, the higher order gets
all the praise and the profits. An in
stance of the ~"Sparrows and the Gold
finches," the snatchers and the snatch
ed from, the survival of the most I'M
scrupulous. We defer too much to
the men with the money. we still wor-
ship the golden calf" we accept their
teachings and adopt their motto, with
scarcely a thought for those pure
minded unselfsh teachers who are
devoting their lives to the cause of
liberty and humanity. They tell us
that patriotism and love of law and
order is a common sense motto, while
liberty and humanity is an ideal of
the dreamer; that we should accept
the present order of things and not
run away with the silly idea that the
reality can ever come up to the poets
dream, that the handicapped towers,
with all the glamor of distance, which
look so splendid from afar, a upon
close inspection become more splendid
still-why, the idea is against all ac-
cepted theories. The accepted the
cries are their theories and we are to
discard everything else and accept
them. We are no longer to consider
that this world rests upon the shell of
a tortoise, nor does it rest on the
shoulders of n man. This whole
world rests upon the shoulders of a
syndicate commonly known as men
with money. They support the whole
frame work of things and from them
all blessings flow.
Be S%eIf-Reliant.
The sordidness of the lives of the
majority is to be extremely regretted
from their elevated point of view, but
SO much of dignity, ease and comfort
as they do possess is all that can pos
sibly be spared to them. If they de
mand more they will be %intruding or
: the privileges of the rich. Well, let II.
intrude a little on their privileges, lie
, us even refuse to accept their theories
!, Can't we be more self-reliant, can
: we assert our manhood. can't we eve1
hope that our wild dreams of liberty
and humanity will some day be realiz
ed? OF course we Can, and, fellow
workmen, let us stand together and
: in the language of the poet, ring on
the old, ring in the new, the great MOI
al renaissance. the new learning of tn
mind and heart, the new type of MAJ
and woman, developed by liberty
e working within the domain of love"
To the kickers.
The men who fight the battles fo
labor, who make enemies by what the
do and say, have trials enough to er
6 counter without feeling that they mus
also be on their guard against enemie
in the very ranks of labor. who ough
to be their friends and supporters. Bu'
while it is discouraging to know ther
are creatures so despicable as to see
tn D1juht tho onnI Nyn,G Of Inva1 mo
(and it would be difficult to imagin
anything more utterly contemplate,
, it must never be forgotten that tn
sound sense n good judgment of tn
" great majority of the laboring peopl
q can be relied on to scorn the work
a gossip enc render futile the efforts {
6 falsifiers who would willingly wrec
every hope of labor's future, hat i
4 the ruins they might find some selfiis
gain, petty hate or malice gratifed.
Permanency of Labor Organization.
l. Though there are many persons, ar
ir many Of them ven members of the i
'e Dor organizations, who have very lit,
" good to say with regard to the organ
IS cations and what they are accomplis,
ing, yet their permanency seems hs
been established beyond a doubt. Co
corning this matter a prominent labt
or worker has the following to say:
a yes! Labor unions have come
it stay until their mission is accomplis
IS ed, Notwithstanding the subsidit
is press uses its every effort to mold pu
Is lie sentiment in the direction of anita
n onizing and ~denouncing strikes, WIFI
Id men are asking recognition of the n
bility of the men and women who cal
lie their bread by the sweat Of their bro
k There will be no let up to the agit
II, ton, education and organization of Il
workingmen until they stand upon Il
plane to which they have been GALE
by the Creator of all. Even thous
the steel strike should fail to accol
ct plish all that was intended, the hos
e. of labor will march on from the mob
lie beginning to an ending that will fin;
n ly witness this fair land of plenty j
ed deed, the land of the free and Il
home of the brave
iy HE WANTS SNAKES.
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