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would be possessed of thousands it he could; but we do hold and we do 

 believe that the same law should apply to every capitalist and corporation 

 as is applied to any or every poor man in the land. If a poor man takes 

 what is not his own, the law says he is a thief and must suffer the penalty 

 of a broken law; while a capitalist or a corporation with plenty of money 

 steals more, the law says it is legally done and hence he or they are not 

 arraigned. 



If a poor man with a real or imaginary grievance against his employer, 

 be that employer an individual or a corportaion, sees fit to lay down his 

 tools and walk out, depriving himself and his family of the results of his 

 toil, that he may do, but he has r.o right to say to his fellow craftsmen, 

 you shall not by stroke of engine, hand to lever, hammer to anvil, belt to 

 pulley, set in motion the wheels that I have helped to block. Shall wc 

 wage a warfare against such wrongs? Shall the rule called golden stand 

 for anything? Will we by voice and pen evoke a public sentiment that 

 shall adjust these serious questions between capital and labor, or will we 

 be so cowardly as to sit in apathy and never quicken a pulse or a heart 

 throb in this fight of capital agaiust labor, or labor against capital. In 

 my judgment the battle should begin in the individual life, by cleaning it 

 from selfishness. We want more of that education taught by the man who 

 walked by the shores of Galilee in the business methods of this country — 

 the Spirit of Christ, the true Spirit, that seeks not alone the interests of 

 self, but that of all mankind. 



So long as the most sacred of nil things, the marriage relation is so 

 lightly held, making the procuring of divorces stock in trade, and the men 

 and women giving more care and thought to the purchasing of a fine hor^e 

 or a fine gown than they do to the choice of a companion for life, and who 

 shall be the parents of their children; so long as fathers and mothers 

 measure to their sons and daughters — young manhood and womanhood — 

 by money, position in society, a pretty face and a fine appearance instead 

 of the true worth, sterling characier, just so long must we help in the 

 conflict. 



All government points to society and society to the individual mass 

 as the final unit of worth and cultivation. Politics and government itself 

 are more and more becoming studies in sociology, and even this sad plat- 

 form cannot escape the discussion. By so much as wrong and oppression 

 still arrogate to themselves some of the seats of justice and so-called honor, 



