The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-31

OnlOu TTlAlcIS MCluOlAoA Lay WILL
appropriate exercises at the First
Christian church and on the unions |
burial lot in Wyuka cemetery. The
church was well filled despite the |
threatening weather, and the assem-
bly, at the cemetery was the largest |
. since the custom was established |
Three times has the Lincoln Typo |
graphical Union observed this day, and
three times has the weather man in
terfered, giving raw, chilly and threat
ening weather. But this did not dis
courage the earnest unionists and
their wives, and each year sees a
larger number attending the services.
Lincoln Typographical Union inaug-
urated this custom, which now has the
sanction of international law, and last
Sunday it was honored by having two
splendid orators to deliver addresses,
one of them the foremost orator of
this day and age, the other one of the
foremost newspaper men Of the coun-
try. "
William ]. Bryan delivered the men,
orial address at the church, and Rich
ard L. Metcalfe, associate editor of
the Commoner, delivered the address
at the cemetery. Both of these men
are staunch friends Of organized labor,
and both of them are especially close
to the union printers.
Mr.. Bryan's address was all too
brief, but into his twenty minute ad-
dress he put world of sentiment, of
hope, and of cheer. He praised the
Typographical Union for its progress
siveness, and said that the printers,
always in the front of progress, were
deserving of praise for Dsetting the
example of devoting one day in the
year to paying a tribute of love and
tears to the memory of departed COM
rades in the industrial strife.
I'VE pay the tribute of our tears
to those who have preceded us to the
other world" said Mr.. Bryan. "One
by one the ties which bind us to this
life are broken, and one by one the
ties which draw us to the other world
grow stronger. shall never forget the
moment when, after year of journey
ing around the world, we drew near
to the shores of our own beloved land.
Here were ties that bound us close.
Here were friends whose hearts were
y knit to our hearts with bonds of love,
love stronger than steel. And words
fail me in attempting to describe the
emotions of our hearts when we gazed
into the we'll known faces Of neighbors
who had travelled fifteen hundred miles
to meet us. have faith to believe
that when we approach the shores
of the other world the ties which bind
us to those loved ones will make. our
landing on that far shore much hap
pier, than any return to loved ones
and to home on this earth. l believe
that in Gods wisdom and goodness
He will SO arrange it that we shall
bodily eye, for this poor shell of NOR
tality will have crumbled to decay
But from the spirit of the Creator We
shall gather the spiritual body which
shall be recognized and greeted by
our loved ones there. The grain o
wheat found in the Egyptian sarcopha
gus after lying there for three thou
sand years, still contained the germ
of life. That grain of wheat buried
in the ground will die, but in it's deatt
1t gathers from earth and atmosphere
the substance which makes the tende1
shoot, the full stalk and then the rip.
grain in the stalk. So, too, believe
will this spirit Of ours, when it's NOR
tai shell shall have fallen to decay
gather from spiritual abundance ant
grow into the perfection of spiritual
ity."
Mr.. Bryan's address was character
lied by that simple faith in immor
tality which has marked his entir
career and which has stamped hin
as one OF the great teachers and lead
ers of his day and generation.
Mr.. Bryan's address was precede
by brief review of the history of tn
International Typographical Union
given by a member of the union. Rev
H. H. Harmon, pastor of the Firs
Christian, invoked the divine blessin
upon the assembly, and the benedit
tion was pronounced by Rev. s. 2. Ba
ten, pastor of the First Baptist church
At the conclusion of the churc
service the Union and Auxiliary too
special car to the cemetery, wher