The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23

else is if to secure working day of mod crate hours, time from the tasks for re- creation and enjoyment. as much a de- mand of nature as bread? How else se- cure that higher wage that makes the wife comfortable and gives school priv ileges 10 the brains? How else?
 "iinionism and order! No sane pa triot and lover of his state has any patience whatever with dis order whether it be charged to in- dividuals or organizations. There Is one thing better for the state than leisure hours; one thing better than high wages. If is the majesty and supremacy of the lawsl There can be wholesome prosper fly with allowed disorder: no promise for the state in a future so couded. The law and the statutes first and afterwards all ether blessings may be added to us.
 The Brotherhood.
 "f congratulate you on your great or der You have shown that you can se- cure your rishts without interrupting your work or laying aside for even q day your severe tasks. You have had master minds at your head and conserva- tive and thoughtful men in your ranks. None of the orders has done what was needful to be done so smoothly, so peace fully and so successfully as you have.
 You carry your millions of passengers through the vast reaches of the earth. You are their lone pilot, you their safey. How few of us in the coaches to the rear think of danger as we fly over the steel rails when brotherhood men are at the throttle We have learned that you do not retain the unworthy; that the feeble hand. the unworthy head and the craven spirit is not in your order nor allowed fin your membership, and we take no heed of possessed calamity. There is a feeling of joy and security among the millions T,. ale t.. the knowledge that there Is d cool and brave fellow in the engine house. Your passengers are of all classes. You carry the promised bridegroom and his hopes the demagogue and his carefully prepared rawlings, the statesman and his reforms. Few persons in this day escape your pilotage They are all at times in your care and keeping. You deliver the eager bridegroom to the waiting arms of his beloved; the statesman arrives on time. and if he initiates the very pretty custom of President Roosevelt, he hunts you out. The demagogue even gets to his wait ing audience without accident. You could not discriminate and leave him or hurt him.
 We read of men of your order who allow their monster machines to bear them into the jaws of death, when able to escape themselves only that the hurry ing black-gowned angle would find him alone of all on the train
 Engineers EvangeIs.
 You have an advantage over men who are employed in stationary enterprises. You go about No narrow physical hori- zon shuts your views in. Your eye looks out on varying landscape, and it is your fault if your mind does not grow stronger and your views broaded in such a bound ing life. l think we may assume that much that is best in you comes from this freedom from visual anl mental re- straint
 "I may say, too, that you are evangels. You have succeeded the deep sea-goers of the oden time. They carried com merce in one hand and religion in the other. Wherever they tied up was spread out the goods of the merchant and the priest. Is 1t not so with you? You rail- road people are potential factors, the most efficient physical agents in the growing civilization of this great age, and in the matchless progress of the twentieth century. You not only bring distant communities near together, lock- ing the remote hamlet to the great