The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-09-02
HOMAGE TO labor
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There was never . time vhea II Was
more propitiOus to pay homage TO La
Dor and its mighty achievements. We
behold BY far the great majority Il
the Caucasian race at war-utilixinS
the energy and intelligence Of moro
than 100000. 900 people in the work
Of destruction. the result OF which
will contribute not one atom of good
to the human race or the cause OF
Christi.n civilization.
Labor's victories are real. They
constitute q benediction. They mako
for happiness. for the moral and spir-
itual elevation of mankind. Wars vic
tories make for woe. for poverty, for
oppression. for homclessness, for the
destruction Of the innocent, for the
revel Of british passions.
Labor makes for love. 1t marks the
progress of mans Journey to the high
er things of life. Labor is . builder
of homes; war reduces them to ashes.
Labor plants the vine that chambers
over the cottage door. In which the
waiting wife and children stand to
greet the toiler's return from the
tasks Of the day: war kills the toiler.
burdens the wife with grief and starvcs
the children.
Labor is honesty and fidelity; war
is pillage and treachery. Labor 10
virtuc: was IL q ravisher Of the do
fenceless. Labor is truth; war IL do
ceit. Labor is life and faith and hope:
war il murder. frenzy and despair. La
Dor makes the fields glad with golden
grain. and the birds to sing in the Joy
that animates all nature: war leaves
the earth desolate while vultures sit
in solemn silence contemplating the
SCARED and broken landscape.
Labor IL altogether good and It
blazes mans pathway to heaven: war
is evil and marks the road to ruin
and death.
We see all these things today. We
look about US in our own country and
behold the fruitful harvests. It is .
land of plenty. On every side We b.
hold the wonderful results of labor.
Our harvest fields, our great shops,
our wonderful cities. our churches and
schools. our cattle on q thousand hills
all these testify Of labor's worth.
they constitute labor's benediction.
One hundred millions Of people At
peace with the world and striving to
build better and better every day and
every year.
And across the water in the land OF
our ancestors see what war is doing.
Think Of those tens of thousands Of
gallant men who have fallen in France,
Belgium, Germany. Austria and Rus.
sia! Think OF tho hundreds of thou.
sands Of humble homes waiting anx-
iously for footsteps that will never,
never return: think Of the thousands
Of blackened spots from which ascends
the smoke Of ruined habitatior.s 8.
Think Of the danger Of women and
children, think of the cities destroyed.
and Of the rivers sending . crimson
tide to the sea!
Surely the comparison will give to
each Of US . keener appreciation OF
the great boon human labor 10. Sure
ly, We must have . truer realization
OF its dignity. Let those frivolous
ones who are prone to look upon
honest labor as uncouth and beneath
ones respect give q thought to labor
today and contemplate what . truly
great blessing it 10. and how much
nobler it is than the emptiness and
worthlessness of Incidence. Labor is
q king ut whose shrine all men may
pay tribute-all others, kings. kaisers.
czars and emperors are as nothing
compared with the true monarch OF
Christian civilization whose throne
has been sanctified and blessed by the
great God himself.