United labor bulletin., 1914-02-21
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHILOSOPHER

Not to be different, Lord,
| / ask, from those that fare
Beside me on life's way;
But that my spirit shall accord
| With their great purpose, that my
Wholly l may fulfill,
In thought and will,
And that the simple creed
of all mems right
Within Thy sight,
l may affirm
BY word and deed.
| o, save me from the blame
Of those who have forgot
| Their brotherhood, and vaunt
| Their birth or merit. and feel shame
| For such as bear the common lot.
| Make me, each day, to see
If aught through me
Find favor in Thy ken,
'Tis but in part
The grace Thy heart
Pours richly on
My fellowmen.
It's real treat to hear Edward p.
Costigan cross-examine the coal barons
and their gun captains. He has a way
of making them confess to things they
would rather have remain hidden from
the congressional probers. Costigan's
quick and incisive interrogatories pene-
trate those lapsing recesses of the Big
Three" and their hired men so as to
bring forth admissions that help the
miners great deal more than their d.
rect testimony hurts. In fact, Costigan
succeeded in making the operators and
their witnesses in Denver last week give
testimony to prove all the charges made
of tyranny, oppression and studied eva
sion of the mining laws. 1t has given
the people of Colorado and the nation
chance to read the true characters of the
men who dominate the coal mines of this
state. Costigan Is continuing his good
work in Trinidad this week, and leading
the five lawyers employed by the OPP
orators over many merry hurdles.
= I.
Had = rather peculiar dream the
other night said Bill Camerer. business
agent of the Sheet Metal Workers. to
the o. p. Il would like to meet n
Joseph to divine its meaning. but per-
haps it were Just as well ii the dream
comes true. Some dreams do, so they
say. In the dream I was on an ocean
voyage, with bunch of other Denver
labortes, and storm had wrecked the
ship and cast us adrift upon the briny
deep. We swan and swan. without
reckoning time, as good swimmers will
when put to the test. and more so where
life is the goal. finally reaching bai
rem island. In checking up, one OF
our party was found to be missing. 1t
proved to be Chet Common of the Steam
, Filters Union, which fact, because of his
well known ability as a water performer,
created some surprise until IL was ex-
planned that after swimming along easily
for eight hours Chct refused to worl,
overtime. and thereby carried his repu-
tation az stckler for the eight-bour
| day with him to Davy Jones locker
And then Bill went in search Of Charlie
Moore to secure his wise Interpretation
of the dream.
Perhaps some of MS Fourth Estate
| fellows who are bachelors don't under
stand the woman question after all the
profound study given the subject at t.
safe distance. Here's what u pert miss
writes with a sharp pencil; "Your arti-
Gle in a recent issue deplorng the fact
that so many young women are taking
mems places in office and shop is anus
ing. Why don't the men marry us and
keep business for Themselves If you
have the notion that women prefer bang
ing typewriters or selling goods over the
counter to making homes for loving hus-
bands and prattling kiddies. why then
You are goose of an editor and very
unobserving man. All this talk about
the modern desire of women to be inde-
pendent of man is absurd. The pictures
you see in the magazines of happy bach
elor girls are lying documents. There
isn't any such thing as happy bach
elor girl. though there might be such a
thing as n merry widow"