White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-11

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nations of the world come to us,
they will want to sing that song and
send back the message through lines
message of liberty and Of hope
through the world. Yes. they will
want to sing: my Country IT'S Of
Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty"
My fellow men, we have great
problems to solve. Shall we rise to
the occasion? There may be great
pain of travail in finding out the SUI
preme solution of the problem; but
there is the problem, and 1t is for us
to help in the solution. Are we
equal to the solution?
The common people: is 1t a term
Of derision? l belong to the common
people. I am proud of it. / am one
of the common people who have been
the central column of control in the
onward march of civilization of the
nations of all lands, through the CEN
turtles of time, and they always will
be. ! have confidence in the common
people. l accept of the term and 1
say that / am proud of It,, The COM
mon people; to them ! belong, and
to them you belong, and they are
here today, for the uncommon people
are mostly in Jail. cloud applause.)
The common people are the people
who want common right and common
justice. l want to see the stars and
stripes float over the principles of
peace and of liberty and of good con-
science.
labor issues. What shall we do with
it? 1t is a problem and the question
before us is: How shall we solve that
problem? You may differ from me
as to the solution of the problem.
But however you may differ from me,
as to whether you are right and / am
wrong or not, whether or not you are
better able to solve the problem than
l am, If we can get together on this
question, let us do it and try to solve
it right. am willing to confess
that ! may be wrong. But / want to
do what l can and if you can do this
work better than / can, well, go
ahead and do it. Then ! can only
rejoice in your victory If you go on
and do the work and win In the
fight. But our battle is our own. Yes
the battle is ours, my fellow laborers.
and we cannot dodge the issue. 1t
must be faced and it must be solved.
The sixteenth century in this
country was the century Of discovery.
The seventeenth century was the CEN
fury of colonization. The eighteenth
century was the century of national
freedom; and the nineteenth GEN.
fury vas the century of the carrying
on the struggle that ended in the
setting free of some three millions of
blacks. That became the century of
personal freedom. The twentitth
century has its battles and / believe
that we are going to gain a grander
victory than the liberty of the world
has ever yet gained in the march of
progress of liberty. And this cent
fury will then be the one in which in
dustrial freedom will be achieved.
We have no patent for the solution
of this problem. But, men, you know
well that we have practical anarchy
in this country today. Here we have
strike after strike, we have lock-
outs; and we have been sending mon
ey to the men of the Black Hills in
their struggle for freedom. cloud
a%pplause.) There has been black
list upon black list; permit on per-
nit; and short time after short time;
and the result has been practical
anarchy. Now let us solve this prob
lem and do away with this practical
state of anarchy as oon as we can
AS Lieutenant R. P. Hobson said, the
best way to have peace is to prepare
for war. You know that from twenty
spent every year building great
Dreadnughts of war ships in order
that the nation may preserve the
peace of the nations. Be ready for
war in the time of peace. So the way
to prepare for the preserving of the
industrial peace in the ranks of labor
is to prepare for war in time of peace.
Organize. organize! organize! Let
every man in the field of work, every
working man and every working wo-
man, organize into the unions of the
country. And If you do that you
know that you will count and you
will be known to be the power that
you are. When labor presents a
solid front all the way from Sandy
Hook to the Golden Gate and from
Lake Superior to New Orleans, then
your voice will be heard in the halls
of congress and in the legislatures Of
the states of the union. When you
do that you will be doing something
Perpare for war and then the war
Is not likely to come. Now ! believe
In the organization of labor for GER
tain reasons and they are very def
mite reasons. And ] think that is
true Of every union man. You can
give an answer to the man that ques-
tions you. We know what We are
and we know what We want.
l believe a. the organization Of
labor because l believe that the peo-
pie who toll are the people who feed
the world. All the people of the
earth are dependent on the labor OF
the working men for all he eats.
And the man who creates the wealth