Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-03
For Register Of Deeds.
HARRY p. HALVES Of Vassalboro.
For County Commissioner.
CHARLES F. KILBRETH Of Winthrop
For Representatives to Legislature.
FRED G KINSMAN Of Augusta.
BENEDICT F. MAHER Of Augusta.
Labor Day Thoughts.

This is Labor day. one of the young
est of our holidays. but one which has
come to. be very generally observed
and one in whose observance there is
no little significance. The day is set
apart at the close of the summer and
the beginning of the fall as holiday
to be celebrated by. and in the lame of.
the great army of wage-earners who
labor in the mills. factories and shops
of the land. 1t is a holiday in honor of
the labor which conquers all things,
the labor which dignifics and ennoblcs
life. the labor which is the cornerstone
of our national progress and pros
perity. If there is any king in this
great land of the free it is the man who
earns his daily bread by the sweat of
the brow. the man who tolls in the
factory or in the field. with the trowel
or at the loom, and he is a king whose
rule is always a blessing and never a
banc.
Although the celebration of Labor
day is nom partisan and non-politicaI.
and rightly 50. yet upon this particular
Labor day, when Maine is in the midst
of an unusually active and exciting po-
litical campaign. with election day
only a week distant, no intelligent
1aborinE man can fail to realize how
f1nr pj1r f1 a I,. I,n
use which he makes Of his ballot
Never before were the laboring classes
of the country in general and Of Maine
in particular, 50 well off as they are at
the present time. There is work at
good wages for all who will work. and
the demand for labor. skilled and I'M
skilled, far exceeds the supply. Never
before were there so many Of the COM
forts and even the Injuries of life in
the homes Of the labornE classes as
there are at the present time. The
standard of living has been raised
steadily in recent years until what the
laboring men OF a generation ago re-
HaruCd as IuNurlrS are now iOokeu
upon as necessities of life. I'm
doubtedly II costs more to live than 1t
not only gets the steady work and
higher wages with which to pay this
increased cost of living. but he is also
putting more money into the savings
banks than ever before in the history
of the State or nation. And this. we
urge the laboring men of Maine to
remember today, has come about under
Republican rule and under Republican
policies
In those days when the Democratic
party was in power there were armies
q the unemployed marching to the
nsuonai Capitol demanding relief. and
soup houses were established in all the
% Agrea> cities to feed the multitudes who
would gladly have worked had there
been w"rk for them to do. In these
Republican times there are no Coxev
armies marching to Washington and
no soup horses in the great cities.
The difference N conditions is no mere
accident. There are good reasons for
1t, and when the working men Of Maine
20 to the polls mex Monday let them
remember these reasv ns and vote for
the continuation Of tie good times
which they now enjoy.
To be sure, no presidential election
is held this year but an lection in
which members of Congress al, chosen
and in which a Legisia ture is chosen