Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-03

what we were to make of ourselves
 We did not believe that we ever
 would become Gladstones, but il
 made us, the whole fifteen hundred
 try at any rate, though none of us
 succeeded-but it never hurt any one to try.
 While the deputation of workmen
 may not have succeeded in merging
 their interests in the interests of the
 whole, have no doubt whatever the
 advice he gave them had some good
 effect on them.
 Now, of course, we all like to iooA
 at everything from our own point of
 view, and think that other peoples interests are our interests, and if
 they are not that they ought to be When we come to consider, we know
 for an absolute certainty that that
 cannot be so, because no two people | think exactly alike. My old father
 was medical man, and he had short
 of thousand madmen in charge, and | his argument used to be this: You lay an idea before a dozen people; no
 two will look at it alike. There may be one balanced man that will come to the same conclusion, and there
 fore, everybody is more or less in ] sane; and from a certain point of view such is undoubtedly the truth. If our minds were all absolutely bal anced, and our moral senses were all perfectly true, we would then be alike and it would be an extremely monot- onout and stupid world. As it is, we all think differently, and we live in harmony together. There is a little more of that in the world than we sometimes think. An instance of this kind, as our friend has pointed out: It brings together men of different trades, different modes of thinking, and Of no trade at ali, and some of them of no modes of thinking. We know quite well that concentration in one kind of work or in one mode of thinking has a rather curtailing influence upon men.
 Without throwing any disparage- menr on the reverend gentlemen who have addressed us, a doctor of clergy man, or lawyer, you can know if you
 
 what clothes they wear. There are certain idiosyncracies that are pres ent in face and manners that are ab- solutely unavoidable. He is so strong ly marked that it does not require door plate on his breast. We know him to be a doctor, clergyman or lawyer. The professional tendencies tend 10 narrowness, and the same is true of all walks of life, no matter what they are. We all tend to mar rowness if our association is too ex- clusively with those of our own trade or our own modes of thinking
 Now. in a building of this kind where he is to meet men of more or less different religious conceptions, men likewise of different trades, men of totally different modes of life and thought. the moment be comes into intimate intercourse with them, the more he rubs of these idiosyncracies. and the broader and wider will be- come his conceptions of life aud duty. There is no question about that. Now, this is called a railroad club. To tell you honestly, felt little un- easiness about that I thought that if it were called a railroad club it might be considered that is was spe- cificaliy intended for railroad men; and if railroad men only came to mo- nopolize il, that any other men would perhaps not care to come to it. They might feel that if was not meant for them. and that they would not be welcome. The truth is that il is only So far a railroad club in distinguish ing it from any other club, that there are few rooms where railroad men coming of their trains may sleep and find accommodations.
 Beyond those few architectural distinctions, I don't understand that in any sense whatever it is exclusively intended for railroad men: but If if is to fulfill ifs function, and l heartily hope that it will, then the locomotive engineer will meet here, l hope the stationary engineer, and the confuc- tor will meet the trolley man, and the man of DO trade will meet the man of every trade. and there will come to be a brushing against one another and a rubbing of those class and trade distinctions and jealousies which un- doubtedly do separate working men just as much as they separate what are called employees from employers. Then again, the foreman will meet the hind man, and the h:nd man ex- poets to become foreman sooner or later. and he receives here that i'm petus toward ambition to become something else than what he is. which has been the great impelling force in our great country.
 .1 think that the result will be tha; there will be more feeling of com bined interest, rather than a diversity in our own. know that to be the case in the community of which this. of course. is only a very, very insig- nificant unit; but we must recoilect this: that though ours is only a grain of sand npon the seaside. vel it ex- erts it's influence in the industrial cen |