The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21

opposed his policies. His attempt was un- successful as a whole.
 The labor leader writes a great deal. and is proud of his epigrams. Here are some of them
 Healthy disSontent Is necessary to progress"
 "The labor movement is the organized discontent of the race with social con- ditions."
 "No social conditions are eternal"
 ''The trades union movement in Ameri- ca is not revolutionary It does not ex- pect to change the system of wealth pro- duction by a platform, nor reform all property relations by a vote"
 Tn America we are trades unionists; in Russia we would be revolutionists."
 Individuality is preserved by organi- zation'
 'The civil war was a strike against the government"
 'Individual rights must be subordinate to public welfare
 "In the old time the employers fixed the price of labor. In the new time tn. union has q voice in the price,"
 Science, invention, progress and hu- manity have decreed the universal eight hour day."
 But no law can forbid or require me to buy sell, to work or not to york;
 Q man uaS a vested TlBHL to my WOrk or my patronage"
 Lawyers have a monopolistic union, limit apprentices. and the judge acts as their walking delegate. No lawyer can practice until he shows his union card. Talk about closed shop Why, the law vers union is the limit-and then some. They call their non-union lawyers shys- ters. pettfoggers, etc. The doctors union calls its non unionists quacks."
 1,,,fn haxr da mandment: Thou shalt not take thy neighbours job"
 "A boy will kick yellow cur to make him run and howl. But bulldog has the right of way and no questions asked. The fear of a mighty bite saves the bulldog many a kick To all whom it may con cern: We are not yellow dogs. We don't want to strike; but we will if we have to and strike hard"
 Dr. Darlington, New York clty's health commissioner declares that the American spirit of progress is injuring our hearts. The health commissioner bases his asser- ton on statistics gathered from terri tory reaching from California in the wes. tc-MaIne in the east and from Montreal in the north to Louisiana in the south. He says:
 Tn answer to the questions. we find the increased mortality from heart disease to be quite general in it's distribution.
 'The mortality statistics of the census bureau for the five-year period from 1901 to 1905, inclusive, covering the states of Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachu- setts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, show average general increase in the death rate from heart disease of 2.05 per 10000 population. and an average general increase in the death rate from Bright's disease of 1.3t per 10000 population. The increase has been general throughout all of thesi states, New Hampshire showing the great est combined increase, with Massachusetts close second The highest death rate from heart disease is shown by Massachu. setts, with a rate of 1S.47, while New Hampshire has a rate of 1925. Indiana has the lowest rate from both diseases 1928 in heaJ t disease and 5.73 in Bright disease
 During the early years of our national life physicl labor was the rule and essen- tial in the upbuidlng of the country, but with it hand in hand went the normal and wholesome conditions of living inn posed by the limitations of young coun- try and the vrie qualifications inherent in the hardy settler. A century ago our methods of hving had changed little ex- cept In the addition of the comforts and luxuries which national and individual prosperity aHordeo Lire was stlll whole some and normal in its larger outlook Then, with the advent of what we are pleased to call the concomitant attributes of civilization, came the age of social and mental unrest vast commercial opportuni- ties and competition.
 We are paying our prices for our so- cial and material advancement. Physic- ally we indeed need rugged constitutions to hold us up in the pace we are travel ing. Individually we have undermined the vigorous health which was character istic of our forefathers, and we are bring ing into thes world children whose phys ical status is even less hardy than our own. Out of 275,0O0 children examined in