The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-03
His Influence immortal.

1o-uaN All our thoughts, our eHOItG
and our hopes are absorbed in the
in!ghtiest conflict in the worlds history,
the last struggle. we may trust, between
autocracy and reaction on one hand and
democracy and the sacred light OF lib
ert% on the other. II Garfield were liv-
Ing to-day what an inspiration would
his life and leadership be, but his infiu-
ence must be immortal because his prin-
cples were Immortality right. Even the
dead yet speak to us. and in this time
OF trial and sacrifice We may yet hear
rs an echo from the past his words. For
ward to Triumphant end
In day when the country was ap-
palled by the news Of the assassination
OF President Lincoln. Garfield spoke from
the steps OF the Sub-Treasury of New
York, fast by the place where seventy
six years before Washington had taken
the oath OF Office as the first President.
In this speech he Gained the troubled
throng by saying, God reigns and the
Government at Washington still lives
NO less now than then. God reigns
and the Government at Washington still
lives lives now as triumphant force
for victory and the restoration OF n trou-
h!ed world and will live in the future as
beacon light to the nations and the
leader in brighter and more glorious
JAY"
GOV. Edge said:
To-day there is a scarcity OF labor
because OF war. Tomorrow there will
be a scarcity of labor because OF the
greater field OF business activity to fol-
low the war. For instance. when the
programme OF the United States Ship
ping Board is completed we shall have a
merchant marine OF 5000 ships with a
total tonnage OF 100000 tons, com
prising fast freight and passenger SER
vice lines no. only to Europe but TO
Latin America, Asia. Africa and Aus
tralia az well. Think OF the American
labor that will be required to man this
vast feet.
Again we look at the gravity of the
farm labor problem. in war or out of
war. and recall to mind that there are
nine and third acres OF cultivated land
for every person tilling the soil in this
country: that the American tiller Of the
soil has more than three times as much
cultivated land to work upon as his
Western European competitor. There
will surely be continued demand for la
Dor and opportunity for women in many
lines OF industry.
Labor has stood by the country and
the country will stand by labor Work.
ingmen are unfolding the gigantic bridge
which spans the ocean and enables our
armies TO get 20 the front and stay there
Workingmen are sticking to their tools
as Loyalty as the boys IN khaki are stick
ing to their guns
at seems scarcely necessary TO eau
ton American labor that the safety Of
the great ocean bridge depends abso-
lutely on their answering loyalty. The
American workingma1 is awake to the
fact that We are fighting two German
arTnies--one in the open on the field ~
battle and tile other in secret at our
elbows. He realizes that every full days
work puts his brothers in arms that much
nearer to Berlin. He believes that stick
ing to his Job sticks a bayonet in the
Kaiser
Democracy owes him a great debt OF
gratitude which makes us agree, in the
words of Garfield. that the nation 10
resolutely forging TO the front, resolved
to employ its best energies in developing
the great possibilities OF the future"