The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-09-08
$4,000 PERSONS At
FA|RMONT PARK
John A. Keyes Delivers Eloquent
Address on Trials, Duties and
Difficulties of Workers and
Unions of Nation.

You ,y. have other things to do today
understanding the case, I have reduced
what have to say to you to writing
that I may express it more briefly and
I know, you would not have invited
this address had you desired mere en-
@tettalnmeInt @ as I make no pretence at
the vocation may be. or however We'll
rewarded it usually is, but shall give
y1u the best fruits of my Thought
adong s,,t lines 5;n not as yet too often follow
portant drawn in these times. Lines
that stretch out toward future bet
ter than the present and better than
kissed g!orv of distance and its whisp-
erings of mystery and dim romance
~, You represent the worlds builders.
spires and columns unless your hand
and BRAIN or hand and brain like yours
Pave Pave t%s been there at the building: Aye
you or your like have taken the ma
terials and from the beginning have
fashion, fashioned this cathedral from deepest
not what to hfan E 1t
courts of architecture designed it, for
that design would have been a mere
nn5enlized nG d CREAM without the thought
raj too, Is but pictured type of all
the works Of man. Great cites rise
by the might Of your hands, stone up
chisel Of the artisan is Working ATrnS now
as @ it wrought In the vaulted Alhambra
| and fixed expression. and thus labor
everywhere is and ever becomes crea-
tive and men in a sense become Gods
Creator. even as in the beginning the
| ancient legend tells us that God created
the heayens, and the earth; fashioned
| nowhere recorded that God said unto
his servants, go thou and build for me
armament and set therein the earth
he eon 1hs 5 pv to ng gXe and g mk b dd 2n
due report unto me. but the chonicle
the greater light. to rule the day. and
! little later on the text of the creative
| legend tells us that on the seventh day
God ended his work, that he had made
i. just as much creative work that
Beginning OF things, and i willie I I am am
a. politician. 1 fancy that I have just
cited to you the most ancient, highest
and most positive and direct evidence
| found.
the respectability Of labor. but at the
same same time no man labors except to
|
is diverted from it's true purpose and
its results are wrongfully appropriated
20 the uses of those to whom they do
not not, rightfullY belong; then only, is the
and 1T is only against the performance
Of such labor that man should revolt,
| and against such labor his warfare
should be relentless. and nneeasing.
Slave labor is an. Illustration Of such
degradat1on; h;s at n: II the laborer IS worthy
be entitled to have the fruitage of it.
low no precedent, nor shall voice the
the theory y,nsf Of any school Of philosophy,
there are some places where every man
place where I now stand. Not only
such occasions as this be free, but he
should be free from any personal mo-
tiyes that would color what he may
the organization Of labor has arisen on
account of two causes. The first is
natural tendency to organization of all
men Of like position into societies. The
TOR organization to meet and combat
tn3,. the power o. ei, OF organized capital. Not
natural thing, and one of very ancient
arigin. but In these days it has become
aDsolutely tdct e necessary not only to pro-
|
CARNATIONS. to protect society against
fhe feW bdods f0Gce # GaPal
and has appeared a different times in
| different countries under many differ
ent aspects. but there never has been
necessity for labor Organization was vas
greater than today. although the bene-
6ts to be derived therefrom may be
| former time in the history Of ha NOVA
ment OF course the first proposed OBJ
ject or organization is to increase
where TO ba eeep Wages up to that
ceive what he is entitled to. or in other
! words the equivalent as near as may be
of what he gives: but that is not. by
for. If it should turn out that that
was all the reason for organization
we. we would Souh be g,t, at a point where on the
and organized itself In one COM
pact body. and labor has centralized
and organized itself in another for the
warfare. The results of which would
be that first one side and then the
other would gain victory and neither
nent use to the race beyond the I'M
pending moment. But by the very ma
ture Of things there are other desired
that it is moving forward, and that
| ultimately we shall reach q point
where mankind will be much more
present. but whether that time shall
come soon or late depends upon the
| intelligence of the individuals compos-
ing society. II they are wise and are
led to study the great economic and
Industrial questions and then to act
unitedly after having given them that
| temporarily improve matters but to
gain great permanent advantage, so
that we in the near future and the gen,
erations Of those who may succeed US
will live under better and more Just
conditions than we do at present. It
! Is not my purpose to discuss at length
the existing state Of affairs in this
country, but as we look about US we
see vast wealth concentrating in the
hands, of few men through the arti-
fetal law made means of, corporations,
| tariffs, special grants and franchises
| We see our cities coneested with i'm
mense populations. quite large per-
centage of which are constantly upon
| the verge of helpless want, regardless
| Of constant and attentive labor. we
| are also forcibly impressed by the fact
| that there Is large drifting criminal
or quasi criminal element, increasing
perhaps. and always a menace to free
government; city banditti, ALWAYS
| ready to sell itself to the cOrr,,nt noji-