Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-05
THE lob THAT IS.

| Life Is made UP of incidents. His
/ tory is only a series of happenings and
philosophy is mostly drawn from things
that have happened ITO US or our for
bears. So the not uncommon expert
ence related 6y Marshalltown woman
in search of Job for her husband has
its value to all individuals who depend
and whose families and their comfort
and happiness depend on the job that
1 is.
This man had held Job in one of
1.-the smaller Iowacitfes for years. Ii
wasn't lucrative but it was living job.
He had grown old, nearly to three
score, when he threw it up and came
1 to Marsllalltown. He soon found the
laborious trade he had learned in his
youth hard to follow and the COM
petition of younger and stronger men
hard to meet. Coming from the job
that is, he found himself without work
! He sought it in factories. Younger
men and those with factory expert
ence were preferred Sick at heart he
finally, "lay down." disappointed, dis
couraged, beaten. Then his wife took
up the search, so far ,lnavailingly And
those who have been out of work, with
nothing in sight, know, somewhat Of
how he must feel. facing the job that
failed.
Perhaps The will soon find work that
he can do, net us hope so, but his ex-
perience carries a warning old as labor
itself. 1t is best to be on with the new
job before we are off with the old. Few
men are fit Ito figure their own chance
with the world, We, all of US, believe
1--WE are younger, stronger, more inn
portant than we actually are. And
most of us do not find this out until
our feet have slipped. Don't take big
chances on fairly good job. It's your
living.
| When wages are good and work
plenty, we grow pretty arrogant. It is
then we consider making change.
In prosperous times men are often in
clined to vote out of power the parties
and principles that have done most to
make the prosperity that "sets us up"
1t is when the rent is paid in advance
that we threaten the landlord 1t is in
good times that we forget our
friends. And it has always happened
that, even in prosperity, we have voted
against the forces that most make for
prosperity.
In the aggregate and as men with
job, doesn't it behove us to look well
to the future before we part company
with good wages and generally speak
ing, plenty of work. Has stonemason,
getting today SO to 55 cents an hour,
any safe reason for Wishing change
in administrations? Has the teamster,
the common laborer,. the. farmer, has
any. class. good reason to believe that
Mr.. Bryan IS specious and visionary
promises will bear fruit in the weekly
pay check Honestly considered, care
fully thought out, in the light of his
tory and the logic Of events, fwhere Is
the wage workers ,fealty due. with the
party that promises or the party and
the policies under whose adrninistra-
ton the job pays and stays? Isn't the
job that is better than the gaudy
promise of job that isn't?
The only job that brings the cash
to pay the grocery bill is the job that
is. The question: every worker should
ask himself most seriously and with
the deepest consideration, is, Us it safe
to leave the present Job for an ire
descent and indefinite pledge? Think it
over. Are you willing to take the
chance for your family and yourself?