The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-06-03

rew should sit around the banquet board heaped
so high that some crumbs must f that the gathering
OF such crumbs be regarded a privilege bestowed
upon the many. There are too many who in fear and
trembling accept the crumbs forgeu of the basic fact
tnat wealth is the product of the activities of ALL al
though its gatherings may be the activities of the
few"
mo great nation fell before external forces un-
til first weakened by internal forces In all ages fav
orite instrument in the hands of power which strug
gled against the advancing spirit of liberty was the
ng picture of foreign conquest effectively
ployed to deaden the sensibltes of people to the
wrong and oppression visited upon them."
proud OF our influence in the worldwide sphere of
thought purpose and development as we have the right
to be- let not make the mistake of those who have
gone BEFORE but realize that mission to the world
and our duty to the world grand and splendid as it
be- is secondary after ALL to mission the develop
ment of true democracy at home and duty to our
selves in preserving institutions from those
from which be traced the wreck of empire
in the past.''
$50 too, Of boasted worldwide industrial
triumph. 1t justly appeal to pride be told
that the products of industrial activities found
everywhere indicating the coming Of worldwide in
dustria1 supremacy, but such pride, audable it is
must not blind to conditions prevailing the great
centers of Industry"
1--WE cannot still the voice of protest. nor conceal
the wreckage of humanity. We efface the re-
sentiment born of industrial conflict silenced for the
time only by the show of armed force, merely by the
boast of a worldwide industrial supremacy"
T we would preserve the real spirit of free institu-
ons if would preserve democracy in it's real spirit
justice to alive must realize that where there is an
injustice there is human and not abstract respon-
sibility for SUCH wrong or Injustice"
"The very fundamental of democracy is the right
Of all to exist, with equal privilege and opportunity If
we are to the benefits of that human association
called government all must participate in the making
and administration Of it's policy
If to lift ourselves above the level of animal
life, If to recognize that has a right
which another must respect must abandon the cry
Which is the keynote of the brute existence the
}ssnxvival of the Fittest., - - p
"A genuine democracy must be found in the genesis
Of mans struggle for the form of free government
eve must recognize in this struggle that it is a
struggle for humanity We must recognize that man
is good enough to be permitted constitute himself
the guardian of public weare that free government
is for all, it must be by ALL We recognize that
man more created to sacrifice to nordi-
nate greed and unrestrained commercials than he
created to sacrifice to royal pomp and amb-
tion'
"For selfish greed we must Substitute patriotism
and then will discover that man, the concrete
just capable of establishing and maintaining genu-
inc democracy, he of establishing the form of
free government"
IF there is single chapter in countrys history
which any patriot would wish to have forgotten that
chapter does not record mistake of the American
ple but records the abuse of power the betrayal Of
democracy at the hands of the few"
"The opponents of democracy fond of asserting
that for the evils of democracy asking
democracy This is false assertion We would dis
tngush between the evil of SYSTEM if it has any, and
those evils which foreign to it, and opposed to it's
best purposes and find Judgement in only through
instrumentaes of and betrayal by the force opposed
to the system ITSELF"