Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-29

Morse lion of the seamen's organiza-
ton, which owes its existence to him.
Sent to sea as a young boy, he learned
the whole story of seamanship and of
its wretched slavery and brutality, and
early threw his great strength into the
staggering task of releasing his fell
low seamen from their serfdom. The
international Seamen's Union of
America today bears living witness to
marked by a forgetfulness of self
which has few parallels.
There can be no real life without
labor. Men or animals who shun la
Dor become parasites. They remain
undeveloped, incomplete, helpless
When deprived of their filched susie
nance they perish. Labor is indis-
pensable to the health and develop
ment not only of the individual, but of
the race Where life is easy, develop
Deformity of body or mind frequently
results from labor power unused, mis-
directed or overstrained. Labor power
must be used. There must be effort
and activity or the faculties decay;
but it must be natural activity, such
as will preserve and further develop
body and mind Activity of this char
acter is possible only to freedom.
Produced Strong Race.
The so-called historical period of
humanity has apparently failed to fur
ther the evolution of man. His body
is no stronger, more supple or endur-
ing than at its beginning. His senses,
there are excellent reasons for believ-
ing, have decayed rather than devel-
oped. We are told that Europeans of
the stone age were at least our equals
in physical development, and that their
to ours in weight. These people lived
and had developed by hunting.
There is no life so free as that of
the hunter-free to follow impulse, to
struggle, to move about, to measure
strength and wit against obstacles of
all kinds. Only those of the greatest
courage, endurance and skill survive
the deficient die early and leave few
offspring. The hunting period was the
development period of humanity. The
hunt furnished all the conditions es-
sential to development. 1t necessarily
developed keenness of judgment and
caution, strength of muscle and swift
ness of motion, because upon those
qualities life depended. 1t was life
which set its indelible mark upon man,
for man is hunter still, tho he stalks
a different game.
Man Provided the Home.
The male trailed the game and
finally brought it home. Cave or hut,
it was still his home. For it he hunt
ed; in defense of it he fought and died.
He provided for the women and chill
dren and defended them. That was
his labor. The woman was, first of all,
a mother to her children. She fed
them from her breast in infancy; she
prepared food from the game brought
home-food, and to some extent cloth
ing for herself, the children and the
man. The children, in play, learned
the labor which was later to be theirs.
There was an honest division of labor,
each doing that for which nature best
fitted them. Thus they labored and
lived and developed, and from this
free life has come all that humanity
really is or has in physical perfection
and mental endowment. Man may
have learned many new ways of using
his faculties, but the faculties are the
same. There is polish, but It bright
ems the same metal.
In the early period of agricultural
development, while freedom remained,