The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-08

every happiness which generous time
may have in store for the most favored
spot on earth.
AS | look about me into the faces
of Kenosha S men, | note that you
are all workers. Some, it is true, oc-
cupy the position Of the employer, and
others the position of the employed,
but all, nevertheless, are working each
in his sphere for that degree of per-
sonal success which is the desire and
the hope of every good citizen.
On this day suggestive of deep
thought and salient lesson, 1 would not
part from you without leaving word
with you for the future well-being Of
your city. The present greatness of
Kenosha is not the result Of accident
A city is not built of brick and stone
alone. Its foundations are laid on
human lives, and it's growth is the
record of human energy expended.
Every city is monument to the pa
triotism of the living and to the mem
Org of the dead. Wrought into your
great manufacturing plants, built into
the walls OF. your homes, into the beauty
of your public places, into your affairs
and your hearthstones are the lives of
those who lived and died among you.
Some of these attained the stature Of
business giants, and their names are
written high in the list of the workers
Of the world. Some toiled on in an hum
bic way as laborers, all, however, CON
tributing each his portion to the growth
of his home place. Many of these, the
builders of Kenosha, employers and en-
ployed, men of wealth, wisely employ
ed, men of deeds, who carried out the
design Of their leaders are not with us
today Their work is ended. They
have passed through life's evening and
into the mists from whose silent en-
brace no voice is heard. They were
worthy men, the builders of Kenosha.
May their memories be cherished by
the generations yet to come. We can
best honor them by living in honor
with our fellow men. All cleanliness
may not be classed as purely hygenic-
although all cleanliness is health giving.
Therefore may we honor our dead
builders by living in honor always
You expect another word from me to-
day, and you have a right to expect it.
You wish me to speak Of the day and
to offer some word which you may
bring to your homes respecting it.
AS this structure is to be raised to
beautiful completeness by human hands,
by the labor of men, it is fitting that
this day should have been selected for
the laying of its corner stone.
The day is dedicated to labor, to
work, to honest toll and to all that
toll contributes to the upbuilding of
sterling character, and to the happiness
and well being of mankind.
There is notion in the minds of
some that labor, work, toll, is a penalty
inflicted upon the human race as a pun
ishment for transgressions I feel that
[ am an expert on that question. Ever
since my early boyhood I have worked
in season and out of season, in every
field of endeavor, on the farm and at
all sorts of manual labor; in the schools
as a teacher; in the office as a profess
ssional man; in the management of
varied business, without but one vaca-
ton and that Of a month IS duration,
and | think | know what toll is And
standing among you today I speak Of
it as God S greatest gift to man. All
hail to human labor! The character
builder, the comforter, the protector,
the source IF peace, the hope of man
kind.
AS we consider the dignity, the force
and the cleanliness of labor we cannot
refrain from exclaiming with labor s
most beautiful poet
Labor is rest from the sorrows that
great us.
Rest from all petty vexations that
meet u.s.
Rest from sin promptings that ever
entreat us.
Rest from world sirens that lure us
to ILL.,
Work and pure slumbers shall wait on
thy pillow;
Work-thdu shalt ride over care
coming billow;
Lie down not languid meath woe IS weep
ing willow
Work with stout heart and resolute
will.
Labor is health Lo the husbandman
reaping,
How through his veins goes the life
current leapingl
How his strong arm in its stalwart
pride sweeping
True as a sunbeam the swift sickle
ghdes.
Labor IS wealth. In the sea the pearl
groweth;