The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-09-03

The most serious phase Of the child
labor evil aside from its inhumanity
and def3 sing effects in general is the
fac. shat it tends to deteriorate: our
race ard that its effects are far more
reaching than have ever been estimat
&c up TO the present time.
The optinjst is always a more pleas
Ing companion to travel with than the
p>.~:zr.:9,, but the pessimist, too, has
hts uss=s in tie world, else he would
nos be there The average American is
usually. pre1nely optimistic as to the
future Of his country, as we'll as proud
OF its past; he glories in it's traditions,
its Institutions, its present status
among the nations Of the earth, and he
woul& be prompt to resent any intlma-
ton that IS may not always occupy the
same c.s,.r:a nding position in this
world &c onrs that it does at present
That is well: that is patriotism. But
no 1Eattf~c With what depths Of OPP
t'ru!s::, o:- .'?-ioti*n We may be Em-
cuta. l.: ts:Yv ~: t:e;'s be well for us to
r.:n.-:ts'e1 /. X .lou<s The shores Of rt,ne
arc ~ ~ <,.:.tcs .i,e greeks Of SNIP! ::,es
willcr, Ii .h.sr Aai2yon Gays, were
reEstt*al5 c'u'r powerful than OH v,.I,
C!e-~,.c Ar:. E.urne, France ard Spain.
e1ci' Ia ~" yis''r roee d.1L es'i. AND
IL anA.t.irH Re c.,..zes aich lazi to
th. e. RIA IT .>.e*c uaticna. r,ig:h. it
IT,. "e well f1i- nS - paase arc s&e If
taos: sa:r4A cAAs~s, x others which
wouiS pte2uce iife fleets, are not also
In operation within our own?
Rosr,e N;as*sa Her Men.
Professor See!ey tells ua that the Ro-
man empire persisted for want Of men.
And it Is true But then arises the
question: Whence this Lack Of men,"
And the answer is to be found in the
fact that Rome "wasted' her men. In
Rome today there stands a ruin known
AS the Colosseum, In the arena Of which
In tue seTer-hilled c1ty's paln,y days
human beings and hunger maddened
lions and tigers met in a death struggle
70: supremacy. And the Colosseum
vas but Que of 1nepy similar buildings
in whirh 10 satisfy the inhuzra,, cray
ings OF the blood hungry :Fo4naa popu-
lace: Hu,r'ser<4 Of human ce,uEs, phys
ica,ly TIE e.st and bravest, were butch
et>"! t. :>r:ise Roman holiday. For
'+.''''1i.!cs S<ry:.e S@i:t Forth the flower
Of her physical manhood, the far
-t;,,- 'l>rln0 ;eSitn:A. 30 conquer or
g., sra w:ien the nation could no
- j; y - aca ire strain, when through
VAS ard 3lhuiatt,tzl .:o!.ieets and &c
>'''~,H':-s Rome had wasted her men,
:::,.T:,. ELL
SO ~ same is .,~ue CT Greece -t1a
'!:.r:e'> Il Leonidss and Mi,tiades of
2'',i,r ~ a1!A Ma - i.ui. For cen
49, =; She also wasted her men, though
- :''' ~ noDler cause than Rome;
:: 'e;.;,-,iaI' si;e sent forta her bravest
a1,i Ao2!, ana in proportion as the mall
'!:: :-r1:..,., courage grew lesser and
lh:..-r until Socrates, Of ThemistocieH
bec&::'e the Greece of which Byron
IS Greece. but living Greece no
more;
- coldly sweet, so deadly fair
We start, for soul is wanting there"
Spain No Longer a Power.
Spain has for centuries been a retro
grade among t!e nations;- but it was
not always thus. She is no longer the
Spain Of the Armada that once carried
the wealth of the world in those famous
galleons which were such tempting
she wasted her men in her struggles
for territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and in
her pitiful struggle a few years ago
With our own United States the men
who fought in her defense were not
the men of the days Of Cortes and
Pizzari, they were but the descendants
Of a wasted race Of men.
And France, the blood of whose sons
'ope; France of Marengo and Auster-
itz, of Jena, Friedland, Waxgram
MOSCOW, Leipsig and Waterloo. What
waste of human life, and that
life tine nest and bravest that France
t'ese iset. But no action that ever
-! ""Hld stand such a waste
:, "r"e, Of the sunny vine
- len waving corn
- .nuger raise men
:i>sensions or the
tie could destroy
our own time
>. the British en-
j - fer some time
! -: =: the path of de-
! oe,e and Spain
~ certainly no,
y - - ~ strides on the
r.. a.,rs ago Oscar
~ H. - a.. Ave Impera-
III? thus:
:. >..:-- uunds are never
.>.: x is never run;
-.!:;lan<', must thor
l.: :: - ground a son.