Evening journal., 1907-09-21

26 to 46, have been spent In this city.
AS we pass along the road Of life. as
our hair silvers, as mine has the past
four years, we grow attached TO IA
miliar scenes and surroundings. To old
friends constant travel, constant
change, is not conducive to peace oa
mind. However, there Is work to be
done-much work-necessary work
and somebody must do it. But after
ALL a Brotherhood man is never a
stranger Wherever he may so, / shall
go, and 1 shall do my best for organ
lied labor. And bear I'm mind that
what is best for organized labor Is best
for our common country. Organized
labor is engaged in a stupendous. far
reaching work Organized labor has.
for many long years, recognized the
fact that is now quite apparent TO
thousands Of men whom a few years
ago seemed to think we were at least
hasty IN our utterances. But the two
foremost Americans OF to-day, Presi-
dent Roosevelt and William j. Bryan,
In all their utterances and writings,
corroborate all the statements made by
the American Federation Of Labor
twenty years ago.
Enjoys Mr.. Hastings Letters
Il was pleased to read in THE
JOURNAL from the pen Of our Well
known and venerable townsman, the
Hon. Washington Hastings, his views
on the situation confronting us. Mr..
Hastings words should have weight.
For forty years Mr.. Hastings was a
man of affairs. manufactures. and
every citizen should ponder over his
words when he says:
"'It is high time that the standing
menace Of less than one hundred men.
almost absolutely controlling all the
business-financial, commercial and
manufacturing-o this country, was
ended; before the very existence Of the
rest of us is entirely in their hands
and subject to their greed and their
whim. as it is fast becoming. wa
would better take a lesson from the
condition of the French people under
Louis XIV, and his successors, just
prior to the Revolution-and so had
our graspers and grabbers-before it is
too late; and before a like calamity
and universal ruin overtake us. We
may talk about our wonderful prosper
/ ity and the advance in working peoples
wages as much as we please; I grant
that the country has been prosperous
and that wages have advanced, and
rejoice at It; but compare for a mo-
ment the advance in the price of what
the poor man eats-brought about, as
/ 1 believe by Combinations in restraint
Of Trade'-with the earnings of those
combinations and their dividends; and
look at that view OF the picture for d
whilel'
Il congratulate Mr.. Hastings on those
words. They are true as Gospel, and
the men in the American Federation OF
Labor are determined that the reign %
plutocracy shall end. To my many
friends and acquaintance, not only IL
the ranks Of organized labor. but alsC
in the circles Of business, and among
the physicians, newspapermen and als'
the lawyers-for though 1 have otter
'biffed the lawyers. am pleased to say
I have some warm friends among th'
legal lights; and also to my friends IL
the ranks Of the clergymen of all de-
lnominations-and 1 am proud to say
have warm friends among the Protest
ant clergy as well as among the clergy
men of my own Church, bid then
farewell for. time. AS a final word
wish to say that in my Judgment it i
the duty of all broad-minded citizen
in Wilmington to push THE EVENING
JOURNAL to the front. I am a radica
Democrat and THE JOURNAL is Re
publican, but I consider THE JOUR
MAJ the paper Of the people"