Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-09-06

touch of earth, where in weakness
he was at their mercy. What per-
feet picture of the economic fall of
man. Both literally and figuratively
mankind must keep in touch with
mother earth. We must constantly re-
turn to first principles for inspiration
and strength if we would really know
the true law of life and apply it with
renewed power in the cause of hui
man happiness. "In the sweat of thy
face shall thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground" Such was
the Creators sentence delivered to
humanity when the first parents were
excluded from the all-satisfying
abundance of the Garden of Eden
and turned out into world of undevel-
oped resources to work for living
and to achieve their own happiness
Almost from that hour to this there
have been those who have emphasized
this as a rule of perspiration, for
others, rather than law of compen-
sation, for ALL Considered simply as
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perversion, development and redmp-
ton of the human family, we are too
apt to think of labor only as PEN
atty for disobedience, forgetting that
with it went all the vast and bounti-
full endOwments to which God of Ma
ture consigned his erring children,
even when banished from voorhees,
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that the sentence of Punishment in
cluded more of promise than of pun
ishment. 1t pointed the way to de-
velopment, not to doom. Whether
construed literally or as legendary or
allegorical expression of the begin
ming and basis of human life and his
tory. there will be no disagreement
on this essential truth of the story of
Genesis-that Gods world with all
its ever renewing wealth of resources
and opportunities for the satisfaction
of human needs, was dedicated t.
the whole of the human family
through all of the line of genera
tions, as a field of labor and of life.
And this divine grant had but sim
gle reciprocal pledge; labor as the
price of life; life as the reward of
labor.
When we think of the great doc.
trine of the "Fatherland of God ana
the Brotherhood of Man" the words
become idle mOckery and their noble
sentiments travesty, unless we rec
ognize the community of human in
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earth's resources and community OF
duty in the labor necessary to adapt
these resources for the supply of hu-
man need and the increase of human
happiness. For even in that hour OF
Punishment from Eden to earth. leav-
ing the garden of abundance for a
world of work for life and life for
though they were proclaimed. these
parents of the race had the God-given
right by which they might have stood
earth about them and the multitude
of humanity to follow through the
ages, and shouted in voice of graft
tude "The World Is Ours--fOr La
Dor and for Life"
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tribal, racial and national, has large
ly been the record of continuing
struggle between 81" and "We,"
Mine" and "Our." Human life has
been made unsafe, and human happi-
ness marred and destroyed all the
way from Eden to Potsdam by this
age long battle between the pro-
nouns.
Again let us get back to earth for
inspiration and strength. I'm tho
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread" eff any shall not work
neither shall he eats the con-
verse of the same truth, as enjoined
upon early Christians by the great
missionary apostle Paul The neces-
sary corollary of this Godmade, Ma
ture-written principle and law of hu-
man existence whereby the price of
life is fixed in terms of labor and the
reward for labor is fixed in terms OF
life, must ever be that every human
being born to earth Is entitled to
equal chance to apply labor to the
common endowment and to secure
the fruits of that labor for the salts
isfaction for all the needs Of life.
Without such security of opportunity
and of reward, the law of labor be-
comes the chain Of slavery. in mock
cry of Gods purpose and humanity's
right and destiny.
Perversion began when one person.
combining selfishness and greater
strength. compelled the weaker fell
low human being to earn the bread
for two by the sweat of one. And
from that day developed the long life
of those who have asserted and en-
forced the claim to eat bread by the
sweat of other mems brows, to enjoy
the fruits of labor without rendering
any service. And almost the whole
train Of social injustice and human
happiness and woe have developed
from this monstrous perversion which
expanded itself all through the COM
pick structure of human relations.
Once the line was drawn between
those who worked for living and
those who worked others for profit,
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