The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION SEES GREATEST
OUTPOURING SINCE OPENING In GEL
EBRATION OF LABOR DAY.
Speaker of the Day Deals With the Great Questions of
Capital and Labor.
Special to the Herald.


JAMESTOWN, Va, September D.
All records were broken at Virginia
far today in celebration of Labor Day
All day Sunday trains and steamboat
poured their crowds into Old Poin
Comfort, and jamestown, and all alonI
the tidewater of Virginia the peopl
turned out and gathered for the cele
bration.
William Randolph Hearst was tn
speaker of the day and his address
met the approval and enthusiasm o
the great gathering, Mr.. Hears
spoke as follows:
my Friends: Labor Day SHOULD
rank with the Fourth of July as
characteristic American holiday. Tit
Fourth Of July commentaries thu
means by which we gained our indie
pendence as a nation and Labor Day
commentaries the means by which
we have made our nation the mos
powerful, the most progressive, the
most prosperous of any in the world
Some nations have grown great BY
conquering their weaker neighbors
others have grown rich by despoilins
dependent colonies, but this nation
has grown to be the greatest and the
richest of all through the peaceful de
velopment of it's own resources, by
the honest labor of its citizens.
I'm this country labor is universal
and is universally honored and appre
ciated. In this country there is nc
working class, but every man worthy
of the name is a workingman.
In this country there is no class OF
men that work with their hands while
another class work with their brains
In America all men work with their
brains, and when we say that Ameri
can laborers are the most efficient on
earth we do not mean that their hands
are different from those of other men
but that their minds are clearer
quicker and more effective than those
of other men.
mi this country the mechanics work,
the farmers work, the clerks work, the
business men work, the professional
men work and, even the millionaires
work We have no aristocracy save
that of intellect and industry and
the proudest title of our most success
ful millionaire is captain of indus
try
I'm a country where all men are
working-men there should be greater
community of interest, better mutual
understanding and sympathy. 1t is In
behalf of this better understanding
that speak today. have no patience
with the prejudice which exists be-
tween alleged classes when the classes
themselves do not really exist.
There is no reason for hostility be-
tween employer and employee, between
capitalist and wage-earner.
Capital is but the accumulation OF
wealth which employer and employe
create together.
Wages are but the division OF
profits. Both employer and semploye
are entitled to their share OF the
profits, and as long as the division is
Just and equable there is no occasion
for conflict. If the division is not
Just, 1t can always be made so by
arbitration. and there is still no oc-
CASTOR for conflict.
Let us all regard one another as
fellow workingmen and treat one an
other with consideration and tolerance
Let us all labor tremendously to Gre
ate wealth in order that there may be
the greatest possible amount to be
justly divided.
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has developed in Colorado is a curse
to this country, and is valuable only as
a hideous example of mistaken
course, to be hereafter forever avoid
cd.
IL hope that such a condition has
been averted in San Francisco-from
which city | have just come-but
much has been said in the East to
the union workingmen
of San Francisco. To set them right,
to do them justice. 1t is only necessary
to state the exact facts with kinder
garten simplicity.
zone year and half ago the greater
part OF San Francisco was destroyed