The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-26
REFLECTIONS ON LABOR.

in the wear OF the mige power earth appropriate and
mendab Thoughtful however, constantly seek for some den
ton or adequate description labor and few who take part the
annual celebration and definite comprehension OF its
meaning
Labor is force produces that that capaizes
For nourent accumulation works the original conu-
on Of creative power for the his parts body,
mind and soul bottom the distinction between capital and
labor is conventional aacy, purely assumed basis
or for anagons primitive capital OF the world represented
the labor Almighty and consisted of its various substances and
surroundings fluid and gaseous Capital exists today the
product gifts tranformed by labor and stored essen
tialv in the same way the squirrel its winter food
And within itself labor is infinite its varieties In
case is it purely muscular purely intellectual and the relative
energy numerous and different
pursuits empoyments The hbest the hardest to
the marts OF trade commerce manufacture ano
be merely automatic but degree intelligence The
greatest the distracted philosopher by whom
superficial life is uneard must employ his physical
CANS or he The function of digestion
all men hearing SMELL sight and touch essential
Shakespeare Dante they the evedoe the whaves of
Honolulu.
Not only the assumption of radical fundamental difference
capital ay but the nordnate and exclusive
of srucuray different phases of labor equally
illogical and far absurd An ariocracy muscle would
worse than astocray dignity
precisely the brain and widn its horizon Among the
false sayings of Poor Richard the obvious whe referring
property qualification of five hundred dollars annexed the
else of the elective franchise he proponded the conundrum when
deposited his ballot of his ownership of ackas
worth five hundred dollars whether the the voted
The plain that the with the jacs voted because he
had acquired through intelligent industry that without
jackass its equivalent did possess
There American institutions there
olgarchy produces
whether its fruits material and visible the discerning
mind invisible The President of the United States the Professors
Colleges and Universities members of learned segregated
caed wageeane alike laborers and exactly equal before
law, although according the quality and products of their work
differentiated socially and in power and influence.
Lawful combinations of character that do infringe
rights of individuals public
of the social bond and political organization pre-
negatives of labor in all its FORMS which capital
seasserted determinations particular usually
inferior kinds of labor the Francisco strikes 1901
disturbed the and orderly progression of civilized nations
the United States the people large than
of the entire population have been compelled rapidly
finding effective remedy even paiaton
for vicious oppressive and violent monops whether of
country which almost supply the food deficiencies
world and where the most inferior abore have comfortable home
plenty and drink and free education for his children
sport valuable jewelry and smoke good cigars.
The efforts reduce the hours of labor which with
considerable and which, principle line
of developing citizenship nevertheless present many practical
cule which hard adjust and which will be settled
boycong other lines. No thoroughbred
dispute the proposition that eight hours each day.
reasonable long enough work But there
few actually eight per Apart from
Soldering parrng for time, which good
OF industry and individual character there is scarcely
patton without frequent BREAKS that and this
is especially true since the ruder strains human
been virtually obleaed by machinery. In this age
conceive of hours being
anywhere In this respect the differences between occupations
SO great that sometimes appears mpacae equitable
rule, just both to employers and employed
But the twentieth has general impulse
on moral lines and the problems which affect industry
and above all character being probed by trained
educated and impartial ncongruit and clashes
this trobbng and aspiring remedies through
lean brotherhood eneched by the Constitution laws
now and enlightened nations prominently United States
and IN Great Britain charnim ignorance violence
There unions in this country which deserve and receive
general respect Cptrap demands however, inspired
egners and held by walking delegates grasp se6snes
VIII speedily be denied and their ground
under the resistess of civilization
When bishop Doane of Albany the of Episcopal
church Hartford Mark Twain attended services