The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-08
Sees END OF LABOR TROUBLES
Pays Tribute to Men Who Built Keno
sha and Urges Laboring Men and
Their Employers to Unite for the
Common Good

One of the most notable Labor Day
addresses of the year in Kenosha was
delivered by the Hon. Thomas M.
Kearney Of Racine in Kenosha on Mon
day when he spoke to the great con-
course of people which gathered to wit
ness the laying of the corner stone of
the new municipal building. The ad-
dress was one which was cheered to the
echo by the great crowd of laboring
men and the sentiments expressed sank
deep into the minds of both employers
and employed. Mr.. Kearney said:
Mr.. Mayor, Members of the Common
Council of the City of Kenosha, Ladies
and Gentlemen
In preliminary word wish to
speak of the gratitude | feel towards
the Mayor and members of the Common
Council of the City of Kenosha, through
whose great courtesy I am invited here
to participate in these public exercises
and to address you. | feel grateful
indeed for the honor you have done
me and make this timely and humble
acknowledgements.
[ believe that know how proud
you all are of your city of Kenosha.
It's growth during the recent past has
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turing and business enterprises COM
mand the respect and attention Of the
business world. The product Of it's
multitude of manufacturing plants is
found in every country and in every
cline, and its work is praised as being
Of the highest order Of excellence.
It's population is increasing by leaps
and bounds, and it challenges the at
tention of it's sister cities by the bold
ness Of its efforts and by the greatness
of it's accomplishments.
We Of the city Of Racine have
watched your growth with pride and
with a sisterly satisfaction. You have
encouraged us by your enterprise, in
structed us by your skill, and enlivened
us by your civic pride and patriotism
We hold Kenosha and it's people in high
esteem. We look to you for aid in
extend you aid in yours, and from their
superb positions Of advantage on the
coast of our great inland sea at almost
the center of earth s greatest activities,
we look forward to the time when Ra-
cine reaching out from the north and
Kenosha reaching up from the south
will Join hands in generous effort and
in worthy enterprises, and when the
name of the one city will be Kenosha
or Racine.
In keeping with that enterprise which
has made your home city famous, you
are met on this day dedicated to the
greatness of human labor, to lay the
corner stone Of your new municipal
home,-your city building. You are
here to assist in laying the foundation
Of building from which will eminate
the wisdom and the energy SO essential
to your municipal growth and prosper
ity. You are here to show your inter
est in municipal activities and to give
evidence that your heart is with Keno
sha in its struggle and its victories.
You are here, I hope, to pledge this
community not only a. greater future,
but to assure the young among you that
the official course of your servants will
be clean and wholesome; that those
whom you select to official place will
prove true to every trust and worthy
guardians of the community which they
are selected to serve.
I congratulate you, People of the
City of Kenosha, on your local patriot
ism and the earnestness of your en-
deavors, and for your sister city on the
north wish you every success and