Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-05-31
MINISTER PRAISES UNIONISM
Rev. Frederick T. Rouse Speaks to
Typographical Union of Omaha.
RESTS ON CHRIST
In Memorial Day Address 20 Union
Carpenters SON 10 Credited with
Urging OrGanisation and
BrOtherly Help.

Telling his hearers that he would not talk
of the dead, but that he would talk to the
living. Rev. Frederick T. Rouse, ID. D., in
the annual memorial address delivered Sun
day afternoon to Typographical union No.
1e0 pointed the advantages of unionism
and declared that Jesus Christ, the Car
penter's Son, was the first exponent of or
ganization for labor.
DR.. Rouse took his text from Isah, xii,
81: They helped every one his neighbor,
and every one said 10 his brother. be of
good courage. So the carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith, and hi that smootheth with
the hammer him thes smootheth the anvil,
saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he
fastened 1t with nails that it should not
be moved.
The general trend -sken by the minister
in his discourse Was that humanity Is d
great brotherhood, a great family, and that
every member has right to exist. He
then went on to point out the wrongs in
life. the boarding of capital by promoters -
the bacillus of graft fostered by great cor
porations, the spirit of war between ma
tions and the shattering of that bond of
human sympathy which should exist be-
tween all men.
Il believe the time will come when we
will see that for the necessities OF man
kind, for public improvement and for the
Improvement of mankind, that every man
shall have work." said DR., Rouse. Wealth
should not be boarded here and public
work neglected and men allowed TO starvc
for the want of work.
Graft Germ Must Die.
Great corporations say there is no way
to live but by graft, but graft is a great
moral enemy. What we need is hyper
dermic injection of moral stamina to with
stand this microbe and to tell the corpora
tions that honesty is the best policy. one
of the greatest VICTORIES of modern medi-
cine was the eradication of the yellow
fever microbe and the driving of this dis
ease out Of the tropics. So small are these
yellow fever germs that forty of them can
hang inside a mosquitoes stomach and not
crowd a bit, but infinitely smaller is the
bacillus of graft.
1T is the duty of organized labor to fight
this bacillus. 1t is the duty of organized
labor to insist that there shall be no wal
between nations and between men. And
that which we most need is that element OF
human sympathy which will be broad
enough 20 take in others not members Of
our own union or organization.
I'VE must have organization, for organ
ization means life; disorganizatlon mean;
death. One man standing for his rights Il
as nothing, but in union there is strength
Humanity unorganiEed is printers pi, and
nothing more, Even the church is organ
izing, and before long believe we Will SEQ
unions of all organizations. And what 1:
to be. the aim of all these organizations
1t is to be the betterment OF humanity.
I'VE are not here today on this Memoria
Sunday simply for the present but to re
member those OF the past. Others have la
bored and we have entered into the fruit
Of their labor. Affairs go swimmingly OF
today because those who have gone befor
laid the foundation and laid IL well. There
fore, let us pledge ourselves to the sam
brotherly labor"