The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-09-12

cltlzenS against the VlClOuSs< lloutdI
Industry ara honest capital asainst 't, Il, the 3
exploiters Of the body -politios 49,,
oo "No man can deny Da that hostile !%,t.,
nss
rapidly dividing Gods paradise into
two hostile camps. and II labor 10 TO-
have its rights and those Of the people
politics In earnest. as recommended
by President Gompers, andss,see to it
that men who regard the >sacredness
Of human rights as paramount toEProp-
In the halls Of le9islation,
etsresarded. but that man is Of more
c..rt~nuence than the almighty doller,
maas saoservient to- human rights.
terialis,ic age is to regard property as
the iesson Of Sistary aP teaches as an2fhtux
1T is that the nation must change such
policy or It's doom Is sealed. It 1s not
pleasant TO can attention to these ss
immortal Lincoln saw them in advance
and warned us Of them. Listen to his
words :<<ES:=%,
~ see in the near future a crisis
tremble for the safety Of my country:
As a result: Of: war, corporations, have
been enthroned, and an era Of corrup.
tho IN ns Rsos % Tn bd cean2Ty fS9x @ aad
sndeavor to prolonE its reign by work
until all the Wealth is asgresated in
q few hands and the republic IL de-
bid the laboring people beware Of
surrendertng the power which they
possess, and which, If surrendered, vii!
advancement for such as they, and fix
new disabilities and burdens upon
them. until all Of our liberty shall be
: ''But the laboring people, the COM
mon people Of our nation. are not
going to surrender: They upheld the
integrity of the nation in Lincoln's day
by means Of bullets; they will uphold
Avarice and greed were at the bottom
of the nations trouble then, and they
are at the bottom Of it now; but the
little red schoolhouse has been abroad
have entered upon new and better
era in the evolution OF progress.
"Iistory has not been very eonsid-
vsSe Sery little TT ne to sSo sag aSou} tRe@ per @
Idea that the world in the earlier
days was yo1 made up Of kings and princes
women and the like, and that the COM
mon people had not yet come into ex-
istence.
and less Of the throbbing Impulses and
heroic efforts by which they sought to
climb toward the rightful place in
l1fe,s e, great drama .uox,
the record Of history, Shakespeare has
at the foot of Pomepirs statue: ,
"But what Of the Thousands Of
ski5led artisans: = whose crushed hopes
and pure than the anguish OF Caesar
Rs OF Of S Napceon on the
isle Of St. Helena is graphically told by
the historian, and as we see the great
S III tse G9rs1iaa fGsnf e 6a his Sondse fs
are moved to feelings Of compa ssion.:
But no historian has attempted to
portray the loneliness and. .sufferinEs
ana ea thS rthsn
homes were made deso1ate by HRS cam
leigns Of conquest, or the uffertnEs
Of the millions who helped mark his
"says one: when Marie Antoinette
stood ashast. When the knife fell and
the: blood spurted and the headiess
thrill Of horror encircled the globe. It
was royal blood that the Revolution
she'd One royal execution attracted
sympathy than ten ten thousand human
wretches, whose lives were narrowed
out of them by crimes committed In
the name of the law
When the cravat Of Louis the Six
teenth was severed and his royal neck
laid on the block Of the Revolution,
the crowned heads Of Europe fell into
and stupid king should be done to
death. Shocked indeed, though they
had. borne complacently enough the
sufferings of their own unnumbered
TT was nothing to them that the
should be " filled "SsithS WITH the e"': mansied
bodies of fathers and husbands; it was
with the guilty and stop forever the
piteous cry for justice and liberty;
1t held nx raVs m to tn hsm that pate1 Rs
the common people were bent by the
weight Of taxes, and men and women
and children were driven to starvation.
ertine was assassinated. the President
of the United States sent messages Of
coincidence to the place Of mourning.
But who will send messages Of COM
the extrava gances of the dead king
rounded his throne?
furnish daily chronicles Of the Kings
%hims g11i al ana j., foniez ana ,doinEz st Eoy.
Of millionaire American girls in their
quest for husbands among the degen-
crate counts of devaying dynasttes,
while the acts and movements.sef the
common people are rejected or bOile
down to condensed paragraphs.
MT. Gladstone said that all the
great movements for the development
of the race have sprung from the COM
mon people. History may ignore the
common people, but it was they, who
made hist tory worth reading. It Is In
their footprints progress has stepped
along through the ages.
Common Things Ignored.
by strange faulty In human ma
ture, we never appreciate the common
things. The wind tornado that levels
whelms our ships in the devouring
seas. impresses. the mind with: horror
that time can seldom efface. while the
common air that keeps the mysterious
cites a passing thought. A few years
ago. made trip to the Pacific coast.
The wonderful Rainier mountains,
whose lone summit is robed in perpet-
ual snow, arrested my Imagination
with an intensity that for tho fiYna