The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-03

the true reasons for such organizations are lost sight of, and they become merely the camps of opposing forces, in state of armed neutrality, for which both sides are to blame.
 do take issue with some labor or Sanizations, in this: While 1t is true, as claimed, that many of the best skill ed men are members, no effort is made to raise the standard of the poorer and least efficient men to the level of the best-rather the reverse; and so the di- r. tendency is to deprive man of the benefit that should be his by reason of ! his natural, or acquired endowmentsf and thus to lower the value of all la-i bor, by withdrawing the great incen- | tive of ambition.
 The subjectof labor organizations has been touched upon because believe they have come to stay, in some form or another, and I also believeN they can be made great power for good, both to their members. and through them, to employers as well. They are fac tor which you win have to deal with, and surely the golden mean--whicn somehow seems so elusve--will be found, and in your time. Only this, which should be borne in mind, that the government which guarantees a man the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, should guarantee to avery man, that as long as labor is to be found, he shall be allowed 10 labor, and enjoy the fruits of his labor, whether he belongs to an organization or not,
 You should always be on the lookout for. and encourage in every legitimate way, any indication you may perceive of desire of any employe to reach up and above. You need his help, and he needs yours. and while sooner or later he may succeed without your help and afford one of the exceptions spok. en of-his success will be nucn more certain and rapid with your help. And can assure you that nothing which you cap. ever do will give yop more pleasure, as your life approaches its | tilut Niluai lp lbVh bitN aiilNN tp hllDN that you have extended a helping hand when 1t meant so little to yop and so much to the other man, It Is one of the things money cannot buy; nor misfor- tune take from you. -f.l
 The past few years have been rich in development along all industrial lines. To-day we accept as a ma;;er of 
 course, things, the suggestion of which a decade or two ago, would have been dismissed as the foolish dreams of an unbalanced mind. But all the marvels we now enjoy l believe to be but faint come in future years and which will dwarf what we now consider almost miraculous.
 And to our hands, the development , of these wonders will he given, and op- portunities for success, for honor, for preferment, such as no human beings ever enjoyed since the industrial his tory of the world began will come to you as your birthright
 Your instructors can take you but . short distance in scoring for the start beyond that point the race is in youl hands and the result of your effort; will depend almost wholly on the man. r. ner in which you have prepared your , selves.
 , And if you can realize that you ar,
 only a coordinate part of the grea machine-that bound up in your live
 and fortunes are the lives and fortunes
 of thousands of human beings entrust
 ed to your hands. towards whom vol . have legal and moral obligations. be ! lieve you will do your full duty. an, Q that is ali any one can do. when the, l have rendered unto Caesar the thing
 that are Caesars, and unto God th a things that are Gods