The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-10-21
BURNING QUESTIONS
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body ever denied except scoundrel and
al heart a thief What else did they
fight fort That in America every man
should have right TO life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. :. Nobody ever
denied that except a william I, has
been denied by Kings; they were behead-
ed; 1t has been denied by statesmen,
they are forgotten. All power should
be vested in the great body of people, the
workers of the world. They make most
OF the money, do most of the work: pillow
the land; cut down the forests: mine
the coal; operate the mills, shols and
factories; they produce all that is pro
duced; then who has a better right. a
higher right to say what shall be done
with what is produced than the producer?
Is II the stock manipulation, the waterer
OF rotten stock; the non'producing thief
who corners the wheat market and col
iects his toll from the drops of blood
scouraged from the children in the sweat
shops of Chicago, New York and Pitts
burS; the factories of over protected
New England and flowing in streams
from the novels of the ''breaker bows
in Pennsylvania. A Nation to be strong
and keep right with God must not rob and
piunder the weak, but protect the weak;
uphold the right relieve the distressed ;,
Under flag that stands for liberty,
fraternity, equality. we must have abso-
lutte freedom of speech of opinion.
Every tongue must have the right to
appeal to the general ear, must rest up,
on their intelligence, patriotism and NOR
alltE OF the people and their faith in
the Fatherhood of God and brotherhood
OF Man. Every citizen Of this Republic
must have the right to tell the rest of
the public what he believes and why he
believes it.
We believe then in free speech: .'we
believe it to be the gem of the human
BRAN; the wing of purest and noblest
thought, and if we deny the right of
tree speech we are going backward and
not forward; we are growing weaker
and not stronger; we are heading back
ward toward the sinking sun and barbar-
ism ana not forward toward the rising
sun ana civilization. In order to en-
save others you must enslave yourself.
AS an illustration, take Russia. There
the shacklcs are rivetcd upon the limbs
Of the producing class with bolts of
steel, but what of the freedom of the
Gar; of the rulers of Russia. Day and
niGht they live under the shadow of i'm
pending doom, of despair and without
hope; violating God sacred covenant
they have no God to 90 to. Ono man
can be unjust to another without robbinp
hlihseH. want the lips of thought
to be forever Free and / am going with
the people who will go with mo to guaran
tee that sacred right
we stand for Happy Homes; For Com
Portable Homes; not novels where the
SuhlISht never enters; where the morn.
ing glory never raises its amorous lips TO
KISS the morning sun; where the air is
stagnant and a stencil to the nos+r;1s.
where the merry laughter OF ROSY checked
c"i'dreh IS never heard; where the walls
are bcrcft even of cheap pictures and
where the only comrnotion is that of tho
bread line and the only cry is that of
the feverish lips for ice that never reaches
them. We want homes that brine con
'eh'meht and health; with large and airy
rooms; doors swinging gladly on hinges
or hospitality; with pictures on the walls,
carpets upon the floor, wholesome books
stacked upon the five feet of shelf
room; well edited magazines and clean
and upright daily papers waiting for
the advent of the sovereign from his
DAY OF toll; peopled with healthy chill
dren whose peals of laughter as they trim
IN from school with glowing faces and
sparkling eyes will forever blot from NOM
Dry the days of servitude in the sweat
SHOPS, mines and mills; a home with q
yard covered with well kept lawn and
scattered here and there and wonder. -
custer Of morning glorys, a blush of
crimson ramblers, bed of pansies and a
fhlngling of Sweet William, honevsucklc
ana or-get-nc-nOts. Such home pre-
sided over by a Queen will create and
gently love into a flame the prandest
ambition possible in man; to live 70 no
4 father, to treat wife and children with ,
infinite kindness: to give to them every
advantage IN his power, filling the hour, !
with sunshine and the years with iov.
improving heart and brain and nroyino
worthy of the love of Il splendid o,leen
a man coming from work into such :, ,
nome would come like ray Of light in
ne night bursting through the home like |
ne spIendor of the morning sunrise bring |