The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-14

Consider Actions Involving Tho
Interests Of Our Homes and 6
!: ..... Future Of Our Days. IS I I


: What Of the future? This Is n the
question perplexing the, minds and
harrassing the lives OF untold millions
Of =. struggling searchers, Tor the ordt-
nary commodities Of life. =. 4
= The Part Of Wisdom,..-.@ i
1t may mot be. well to burden our
selves today with the cares OF tomor-
row; nevertheless, there /. does keep
ever pressing upon the toiling masses,
the distressing CONSEQUENCES OF inader
quate provision Ffor the days Of the
future. The days when youth shall
be past; when the natural forces are
abated, and when the hand shall fail
to perform its tasks with its former
cunning and alacrity. The days when
the dead line is; crossed. and de-
Ginning years are gloomy with fearful
apprehensions Of poverty, need and
helplessness. y <5*s<22% j. 5rT'*' A.,
Toward age with its .infirimities we
all are constantly moving; therefore,
wisdom suggests the ACCESSIBILITY Of
constant, faithful and persistent aprli-
cation to the honestly remunerative
engagements during the times Of our
opportunity. - -. -~- =
Improvement Of Time.
The wisely industrious ought to be
busy. The toiling Ito have a manly
chance to be ever making progress;
to be substantially rearing home, and
putting away supplies sufficient for
the demands which must inevitably be
made upon them. THIS we'll to toll; to
be Industrious. frugal, SOBER wise and
careful, in all things pertaining to
the interests of the home and the fu-
ture of our days. ~.
In view Of the existing conditions;
the problems of Observation-Disclosures
strife amongst men, brothers,-the
struggle to live and the struggle for
the life of others-to maintain oneself
and to provide for the rightful needs
lily solved
The present and the future of the
American artisan seems to be grew
ously threatened. The unmistakable
cupidity Of self-centered men and the
furious conflict charged with iniquit-
Gus and inhun1an Observation-Disclosures
bordering upon the barbarus-the
bread winners subjected to indignities
scorning, oppression, injustice, and the
most pertidious ifations-the das:
tardly and positively malicious outrage
against our twentieth century civil.
cation; namely, the importation OF
competitors to enter thesfleld of enter.
prise against the men of our owr
blood and kin, against our own broth.
ers, these are problems that must be
reckoned with by thinking men, L..
/ The bringing Of innumerable car.
goes Of the "Objectionables, the Insur.
rectionists" from the distant shores;
the unskilled, ignorant and vicious;
haters Of governments and morality
| the hordes of disturbers and bomt
| throwers; alas! that these dangerous
persons should be put in the realm o.
| honest 1ndustrialism. Alast! too, fol
the Infamous self1shness which. brought
! forth the plan and perpetrated thu
unblushing iniquity. =, - r
| I fear the future Of our country; no
because I am a. pessinist-for such
am not:s not because I am disgruntlet
and out Of sorts with things generally
! but simply because I Behold the evil!
which threaten our land; the suffering
masses crying for bread; the insati
able greed Of the financial manipula
tors; the astonishing cupidity of tn,
children of the gold bags; the tida
wave Of "Objectionables'; the usur
patton of human rights. the blindness
of the pious moralists;. the verge of tn
precipice; these things cause me t,
cry out, what Of the future?
J.; A. LUMl.EY,
| West Duluth.