The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-07

walking delegate or business agent The
simultaneous attack upon the walking
delegate by the capitalistic press is a
part of the programme to discredit the
| trade union, because the abolition of
cheap, child and female labor interferes
with the making of unlimited profits.
If the divine right of Parry and Baerism
| is to prevail there must of necessity be
Man with the Hoe"
The cheapest commodity in our land
today is human flesh and blood Many
of our states have laws placing a limit
upon the price to be paid for a human
life. Some states advertise to the world
that they have no laws regulating child
or female labor, nothing to restrict the
greedy employer from working child
IN the last stages of consumption Is
hours a dav.
Go before our legislators and you win
find it far easier TO get legislation pro-
tecting the mule or muley COW than it
IS TO get legislation protecting the
American girl or boy. We laud to the
skies those associations that have
evolved the American hog from the
ral-spitter VI to the modern Poland
or Berkshire. But organize a society
which has for it's aim the Strengthening
out Of the imam with the hoe" So
ciety that would make him something
more than a newer of wood and drawer
of water By giving him Gods sunlight
at his toll fair wages. shorter hours.
that viii make this man with the hoe'S
perfect man. physically mentally.
and morally, as God intended-then the
Parrys and the Baers and their ilk who
are growing fat from exploiting labor.
CALLS IT 'PARRYIsM.,
If I'm designed your lordlings' slave. by
Natures law designed
ny was an independent wish ere
planted in my mind?
II So why am 1 subject to his cruelty
AND why has man the will and power
TO make his fellow mourn?
Farryism regards it as a crime to put
an INDEPENDENT wish in the minds of
working men, and in their oninion such
men are the enemies of good govern
ment. Let's see. What is the purpose
OF human life? Prof. Wills. in a series
" al 1icles recently running in the Cos
liopoltan under the caption of "Man-
KIND IN the Making man who has
grown famous by his artistic weaving.
OF science and romance together takes
me stand that such purpose is better
49, = 'tiat IKE the trees of the forest
man man IS 10 live. reproduce himself and
ole; that like Nature he should be con
stantly evolving to a higher state. that
the purpose of life is to make men NOT
oiii ~ that dollars should be used as
an instrument in making better n,e,
Inc father is a failure and his life had
petter never have been lived whose son
IS not better man physically. morally
anu hehtally than he. And so with a
ndtion. Unless the coming eenerat io,,
IN this nation are better than the nres-
enl, physically, morally and mentally.
Ihen the life of the nation has haer a
lailure. Z GU may build your buildings
OF granite whose spires pierce The vas,,
clouds, but they will not make a ~
llon- 1t takes strong, independent
manhood and womanhood to hniId a
nation that will last. -
OH down and read the preamble and
n oil
Cdh you take exception to a line or
precept? they appeal to the worker 10
unite that he may raise himself to a
hlgher standard 1t places before him
grand and lofty ideals
The trades union has been endorsed
by the greatest minds of the age THAT
great commoner, Gladstone, speaking
OF them said: They are the Greatest
bulwarks of Democracy" Said TboraId
rogers, the prince of political econo-
mlsts, L look to the trade unions as
the principal means of benefting the
working classes. Even the president of
the United states declares it an honor
TO be elected an honorary member of
the Locomotive Firemen
The principals underlying the trade
union movement are grand moral prin-
ciples. Under its teachings it has
evolved men as leaders. The peers of
any similar number of American citi-
zens in any class. In the trade union
touch elbows and to rub idea against
idea. They learn to stand upon their
feet and give expression to the ideas
that are in their minds, to conduct
public business. In word they are
moulded into strong independent think
ing men, fitted intelligently to under
stand the duties and bear the response
bilities of citizenship
Let it not be understood that I am
contending that the trade union is per-
feet. Indeed it is very imperfect made
up as it is of average men with all the
weaknesses of human nature in gem
eral 1t must be faulty. In the MAN.
however, it is led by men whose eyes
are turned upward and onward. who
see in the present industrial system in
justice, inequality and chaos. They see
the drones waxing fat and the men who
perform the most disagreeable and ex-
acting labor getting a mere pittance.
They ask if these things are right
and point the way to organization
through whose fundamentally the
manual workers are enjoying a higher
plane of civilization than ever before.
No manual worker. even though he
received so-called good wages, can ever
expect a competency in his old age
Seventy-hve out of hundred
never even get a little home to call
their own. At the best their lives are
a struggle for bare existence. Unlike
the rich they bear the burdens of
fatherhood and motherhood. The larger
their families the greater the tax the
government places upon them. If they
are industrious and the children all
help and they build home and i'm
prove it we tax them in proportion to
their industry. In a word. under the