The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-07-08
OARR0W SAYS labor
.: Il IS HOPE. OF: COUNTRY
Great Attorney Says Working
men Will Uphold Declara-
alton of Independence.
Hope of the Country Is the La
Dor Movement and the Soil
darity Of Labor.

ottawa, Kan, July 9.-The reform
rally" which began In this city on July
at the Ottawa Chautauqua is largely
attended. Clarence -Darrow. the Chi
cago lawyer, and spokesman in behalf
of labor, was the principal speaker.
Thos. Lawson, Of .Frenzied Finance
fame- also spoke. Mr.. Darrow spoke in
part as follows: :. :,,
Liberty and Opportunity.
"All that there is Of America. all her
greatness and her wonderful achieve
ments in the past are due to two
things alone-and while these two shall
be maintained, our future will be as
certain and as substantial as our past.
But while the Declaration and the
Constitution still proclaim the same
equality and liberty that they proclaim
ed so long ago, the powerful and the
greedy, with their combinations, their
trusts. thein great organizations, are
fast undermining and destroying that
equality and liberty which our consti-
tuition was intended to preserve.
= Not the Homo Of Equality.
America, once the home of equality,
once the land where there were no rich
and no poor. presents today as great
contrast between wealth and pow
erty as any nation In the world
Labor has learned that while cap
ital Is organized in every branch of ac-
tivity, while 1t has taken to itself a
constantly larger way all the natural
opportunities form which wealth Is ere
ated and all the machines by which
wealth is made, there is no way to pro-
tect its rights except by counter COM
binations in returh1
What, Labor Stands For.
These great. combinations Of labor
stand for the solidarity of the working
man.. They stand for the right of man.
hood against the power of wealth; they
stand for the calm that individuals are
more than dollars, that combinations OF
men are more sacred than columns of
figures representing the clearing houses
of the banks. .tss5ts55 III 49,
These comhf1at1rnEo men. some
timse poorly drfffed and iI-advised,
even selfish, brutal and unreasoning,
are after all the main defenders of hui
man liberty today. ...--:. :.#-
- THE great: strength of=the trade un=
ION movement must in some form pass
into energy directed towards the res
cue Of the earth from the few who
possess 1t through destroying special
privileges which have ever for all time
made the great mass but hewers Of
wood and drawers Of water, and de-
pendent on the strong
Loves Freedom Best.
The patriotism that is worthy of a
place in any human heart takes little
account of mountains and rivers and
forests or of boundary lines, but makes
much of the men and women and child
rem of the earth. It loves the country
best where freedom, Is the broadest
and opportunity the greatest.
1T looks eagerly forward to the time
when forts and garrisons, swords and
cannons and standing armies shall no
longer disgrace the earth. In longs for
the day when nations land individuals
shall learn that peace As more profit
able and glorious than, war; when the
walls and boundaries and restrictions
which divide nation from nation and
man from man shall fade like cruel
dream, and perfect libery and perfect
order shall dwell together on the
earth"