Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-06-06

v 1t is silly tWaddle 10 say that the
workman need not q work under dis
ease: breeding condi tions, Or for " IN VI
reasonable hours, Or that he will not
assume the risks that he may see, or
that If he Dis not content to labor be-
side another Of whose care and skill
he is ignorant or suspicious, he may MAJ
with lordly dignity refuse to work.
Many times tt > jobs are few and the The. 1
laborers many and over the disc onso-
late line that stands in front of the
office waiting with a solicitude born
Of dispair there is cast a shadow Of
impoverished homes and starving
mothers and babes whose only hope
rests on the chance to labor for which
the man must beg. s /. 5lsl5 s5:
"Once at work he may not quit lest
he walk the streets in rags while his
hopeless wife and children go hun
cry to bed. Necessity commands him.
If he stops for an instant to contem-
plate his dangers the boss is there to
spur him on. Let him quit work in
one dangerous situation, still he must
work somewhere and he finds that in
every other shop or factory in which,
he may sell his labor there are dan
gers incident to the employment max
| ing the risks there just as great as in
any other place in which he may work.
AT every angle he is met, not by the
Anticipated theory of independence,
I but by the stern necessity of being
content to accept such employment as
1 he can get with all its surrounding
and incidental unhealthful and dan
gerous conditions. That working PEG.
pie in the mass are not free to assume
or reject hazardous employment is
keconomically demonstrated and the
/ wages are not at all proportionate to
the risks. s% ...st.lri - gig! -.l
I But in the review OF the 1900 years
since the birth Of Christ we find for
/ the laboFer, on the whole, in present
/ conditions no cause for discourage.
!ment or pessimisism. During that
time he has risen from a condition of
4 slavery to the great substantial class
4 OF society. In old Rome there was the
Patrician, wealthy, luxurious; the
/ lazy, poor and pleasure seeking Pleb-
ian, and the starved, over-burdened
slave. The pyramids of Egypt and the
temples of ancient Greece were built
I by enforced Or slave labor whose
4 compensation or reward was barely
enough to provide the meager neces
saries to keep body and soul from part
! ing. Not SO now; but we must re
: member that We are yet far from hav
! ing reached the Golden Age between
capital and labor, and when I speak
:. of the laborer I speak advisedly wher
y I include the American farmer ant
& in this republic we may not ignore the
lesson revealed in the history Of civ
iiization. 4. .. 3 v. y
-li5| "We cannot afford to darken the
i stream Of our national life by letting
}, the laborer become a mere newer. o
{; wood and drawer Of water; by per
hitting him to be compelled to blu.
! his shelter his food, his clothing, hi
! education, his religion and his pleas
ure where he may do so5the cheapest
j nor may. we permit him to be compel
) led as of old, to lie at rich Dives doc
!, with naught for food but table crumbs
with dogs licking his running sore
! his only doctors, nor. may his onl,
], hope in life be that in the end dealt
). Twill release his tired soul and tina
a as all stand before the Judgment Sea
: Dives will be damned to hell" Will
! he rests eternally in Abraham's hos
/ SON. 81. ....S u +: ,;:5 f.
! 1--WE should consider all the grea
E economic and political questions cor
Iffronting us today not as extremists
/ not with relation to one idea only, no
n may we meet them as alarmists Q
!. tsensationalists, nor should we wit
= the hand of the anarchist or the spirl
f of the ieonoclast strike down withou
Il thought the institutions which are tn
It outgrowth Of the experience, the Ell
ria man who is a patriot in his nativ
1 land will continue to be patriot her.
Ell Most of our immigrants on reachin
vi our shores have little or no knowledg
81 of our national life, our struggles, on
It history, our ideals. They have
i, knowledge of events here, past, (
4 present, to inspire the patriot sens,
d But all Of them have brought wit
it them a knowledge of the history an
81 traditions Of the father-land fraugl
with every patriotic element.
a. Encourage the. lrishman in his S
& Patrick's day parade the Scotchma
d with his Burns celebration, til
i Frenchnlan,,s feryor for st. Johns da
n the Italian on his anniversary Of ia