The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-09-18

II, however, more money is forced
upon him than he can be modestly
and humbiy happy with, as often hap
pens In this prosperous country. !
would advise him 20 put that in q
bank, where it will swell the surplus
Of people with gentlemanly ideals, ana
when he. comes to sicken and die, II
can be done humbly and modestly
without touching any gentletnan's
family precautions. $.s. 3sS$zY..G
! It Is a benefit: to the trade Of q
mans country to acquire the habit
OF subscribing to foreign missions. 1t
is casting bread upon the waters.
Would we have dumped that big loan
on China II It had no. been for the
years of contributions put into the
missionary box by Rumble and modest
Delivers? s.t:ss.s :. ::,..~
/ It Is also good idea for working
man to try to buy his own house; It
will consume his accumulated susie.
nance thoroughly, and enable him,
after half a lifetime, to leave mort
gage and foreclosure. proceedings to
his widow; thus continuing her upon
the same modest and humble path OF
happy poverty, which he so dutifully
trod. Il a workingman's family nc.
quires the installment habit for furni-.
ture and clothes: and has also three
or four assurances weekly, 80 that
every Monday morning halt: dozen
collectors are smiling at the door, It
will be found an interesting and easy
I way Of dlsbursing scare cash and
averting q surplus. = S 1'azsSsts Z. s:s
Turn we now to another phase 81
humble and modest abstemiousness.
+ Whatever else may halt or falter
in this country the continual produc-
ton Of wealth and it's appropriation
by nonproducers must go on, and
whatsoever tends. to arrest that pro-
cess is un-American. !, j: .&5z..s.
It is the continual production of it.
day by day and hour by hour, which
must at all hazards be conserved In
order to maintain the supremacy Of
our dear country. n; sS .*.. s.-3. N.
+ For this reason we have long re-
garded' that hustling worker who never
gets tired and never knows when tc
stop and praised himself with. a re-
! ligious fervor OF admiration. The mar
! who would rather have work without
wages than rest without wages Is the
apple Of our eye. The horse having
drawn load OF bricks one mile which
insists upon drawing It twain would
be an apostolic horse in the mid Of
President Eliot; whereas the brick
layer who prevents his employer from
using him intensely and all day IL q
! pain, sorrow. and d blush to the
high soul Of Harvard: 81 N 5ssz573 ..sss n
! When Columbia set up the great
moral doctrine OF protection IN the
bosom Of her republican party. It was
only for that sort Of a horse turned
into man. Every patriotic mind sees
the requirements IF American supre-
macy to be protection against workers
who want to be better of, but to be
humbly and naodestly poor. 9
The wage Garner who manages. to
accumulate sustenance Is not IN truth
q friend sof real America; he IS only
encroaching and eibowing his way
into the middle class and ultimately,
perhaps, right 4sup among ourselves.
No, rather BY TAR, II he IL penurio us,
let us instruct the clergy to instruct
him to become the father Of q large
family with q small reserve of slls-
tenance and q family aversion To- over
work = 81 4.