Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-06-18
Rev. Meyers of Fort Worth De-
livered a Magnificent Lecture.

ton brutality, he was disappoint-
: ed, for one of the clearest things
. he said in the course of his lecture
was that he had no patience with
or respect for the blatant agitator
who was always stirring up strife,
setting neighbor against neighbor.
liIIe said he came with message
of peace, and not tale of woe.
Taking hold of the question Sc
riously the speaker said the trade
union was necessity of the times,
created to combat the great and
mighty organizations of capital.
This organization of wealth in its
operation in the industrial world
has furnished the excuse for the
individual workers to consolidate
their interests. The manager of the
corporation has for his goal the
greatest amount of production at
the least possible cost. Union
labor has for its goal the greatest
amount of production at fair
cost. The tendency of one is to
lower the price of labor, the ten
dency of the other is to raise the
price of labor. 1t is simply power
to meet power. The individual
workman can not demand any,
thing. Organized labor can de-
mand and get its rights. The
speaker declared that the man
who invested his money in an en-
terprise was entitled to his share
of the profits, and the man whose
skill and labor created the profit
on the investment was also entitled
to his share of the profit. This,
he said, is what union labor stan4s
for; to keep all of the profits finn
going to the man who had invested
his money. The bible truth that
the laborer is worthy of his hire is
the motto of union labor.
The speaker said a new erea
was mt hand: the universal educa-
ton of our people through the
splendid public schools had created
a higher ideal in life, and the
great masses who toll have learned
the lesson that in unity there is |
strength, and the day for better
things is mt hand for the laborer.
Every advance made by the Ia
boring man within the past fifty |
years, declared the speaker, is
chargeable to union labor. 1t has |
shortened the work hours, raised |
the pay, taken the working man
from his hut and builded him
homes, put pictures on his walls
and music in his heart. 1t
has suppressed child labor and
given the child to the school, |
guaranteeing higher class of cit
izenship. 1t has given the en-
ployer a better service, a more
skillful workman, and given the
country a sober, thoughtful and
trustworthy citizen. And, said
the speaker, this young giant has
just begun to arouse from his
slumbers. When he awakens to
the fullneSs of his strength he will
be all powerful, and have the en-
dorsement, good will and good
fellowship of every man who is a
man.
The lecture was magnificent
appeal to reason, and will do
good. If labor had more such
champions it would be vastly bet
ter for labor. The only criticism
to be offered on the meeting was
that out of membership of more
than six hundred union laborers
in Palestine, possibly not more
than two hundred were out last
night. And it is this same indif-
ference in many things that
causes them to fail in many cases
to get what is theirs by right.
The employers who failed to
hear the talk failed to get some
thing that would have been help
full to them. Considerable indig-
nation was expressed by the men
who went down into their pockets
and paid for the lecture at the eff