The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1903, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1903. COHORTS OF LABOR OBSERVE DAY SET APART Local Toilers Make Fine | Showing. | Win Plaudits of a Dast | Crowd. | { Toiters Van Market work- Mound, and were held anions belong t the same street and Van Ness avenue where unter- cle Presented by Thousands. ns afliated with e corner avenue ® angers ss work- - deserved 1d ualrg] classes have city started at o'clock | It was | mounted polic band and Grand Mar- | Emil 8. rer rode ut the head on a | X 3 Goertz a8 | ge E. 8 and | b d in -cs n was comy 3 1 reet Rallway e wore white caps and \. Knox shaled the diviglon with H_ | 8. Cleveland and Joseph Lorimer as afds r flan by dynamos and a furnace was glowing in the rear. On the corners | were gas meters and lamp posts and in | v e legraph pole and an | e inions compos- | g the division w s Workers No, 40, ical Wor | g Street Rallway En | 1 Stationary Firemen 2 | f the street railwa employes | forms, but for the most part | iresked in citizens' clothes and | The linemen bore banners | with t riptions, “We are still out | - o v “Waiting for a he say? and | milar inscriptions. Une of the | ried a monkey tagged with a | ng “He won't talk.” The elec. ers appeared in their ordinary thes, equipped with climbers Is of their trade. K second division, composed of the rivers’ Council, was the second | st numerically of any in the pa- urning out about 2000 marchers. [t was marshaled by George Shepston, whose aids were Joseph F. Sullivan and | workers, ¥. 4. Kerr. It was headed by the Juve. e R S t Order of Fc wagon ar’ cart butcher wagon express a strong body nd drivers Wagons. furnished m »f this division, with D. D. Mon- as aids. rode Store and wee Retall hite caps | Clerks' Inde- tion in red ision made formed the the largest £ 40% men narched after e ema ent of the coun s marshal McDade and T. ordan as alds. One of the floats was re of the battleship M ith T ring from t un- sing t Black- 1 ppers € o. 6, 618, Pattern- nd Machine Smiths Brotherhood of Ship Builde Workers, Boilermakers, n Molders, Steam Fitte Apprentices. n was marshaled by H. F. Ducoing filis the Labor Council but not organized under any especial de- nt Tt represented were the cordage workers, with a mag- nblematic of their employ »mmakers, who carried um- of broom straw and had a Chinaman chained to- mbol of cheap broom manu- glassblow with a fur- . owers on a float; cigarmakers with ntic cigar box on a float; hat and cap makers, with women operati in carriages; cloak- makers; carriage blacksmiths, in leather marched like veteran de a fine appearance; bicycle machinists on bicycles, stove mounters and rammermen, box- makers and sawyers, picture frame wor reed and rattan workers and sugar we Three unions of coopers, with 8. J. Cook as marshal, composed the following div! together with a representation of the sion Fishhandlers’ Union. The next division was headed by the shirt waist and laundry workers, who made a splendid appearance. Thirty floats and vehicles carried cargoes of pretty girl - operators, who received a warm welcome along the line. Then came the garment workers, upholsterers, soap, soda and candle workers, carriage paint- and riage woodworkers, shoe shoe cMtters and shoe repairers, | Blove workers, leather workers on horse goods and tanners. A cavalcade of officers on white horses headed the Stablemen’s Union. They were followed by the shippers’, packers’ porters’ unions and the canmakers, arried metal American flags. The Allled Provision Trades Council followed, with W. Kugler as marshal and W. 8. Little and T. 8. McLaughlin as elds. Gigantic ples, cakes and loaves of bread symbolized the craft. The bakers and confectioners were -in the lead, dressed spotless white. The brewers and decked with sprays of Cooks’ and Walters’ Union, -rom float on which meals who in maltsters, the and a large delegation of the butcher workmen brought up the rear of the procession. The lathers, a finely equipped body of men, dropped out be- cause of being compelled to walt. By some blunder the head of the pro- cession was cut off by the Bullding Trades Councll procession at Van Ness avenue, and the line was compelied to halt for an hour and a half before it could proceed. This was the only inci- dent that marred the display. —e , ECZEMA, NO CURE, NO PAY. Your druggist will re; 0 P, OINTMENT falls Xlnmr'tldrayuulrfl?\:::r':l,"‘lzefifro Old Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and Blackheads ©8 the face. and all skin diseases. 50 cents. * ands sales- | in and | ; the soda and mineral water | | President Urges Business Man, Farmer and Laborer to Work Together for | the Common Good of Al Class es Continued From Page 1, Column 1. a crowd ated at 50,000 haa arrived and crowds pouring. through gates. A 18" committee -of 100 cccupied the speakers' stand. The President was introduced by Lieutenant Governor Higgins, president of the State Fair commissio = cheering had ided the P oke as follows: n whose welfare depends the State. If circumstances ergy, industry and fore- ot the tiiler the wage worker, on ves and then the d that I ltke- Jerity 18 su It has been od fortune as a nation that hither- ding_exceptional periods of depre 1 Inevitable fluctuation: whole from the begil ument 10 the present day & ment alike in ‘the conditlon = 201l and in the condition of v his manual skill and labor, man who that money represents side with this increase in the pros | supports himself and his family, and endeavors | to bring up his children so that they may be at least as well off a if possible better off | than, “he himself has been. There are, of urse. exceptions, but as a whole the standard of living among ‘the farmers of our country | has risen from generation to generation, and | the wealth represented on the farms has stead- i y Increased, while the wages of labor have | ise rieen, bgth as regards the actual | ¥ pald and as regards the purchasing | perity o age worker and the tiller ¢ | the soil on a great increase in th | prosperit the business men and amon | cer classes of professional men; and th prosperity these men has been partly the ce and partly perity of the not be the comsequence of the pr ner and wage worker. It c eated that in this country, | Who possass the hix at the annual fair Agricultural Assocta- » keep especlally in mind | who compose the majority of in the long Tun, we &l of us tend to €0 up oF | B0 down togethér. If the average of well-being |15 high, it means that the averago wage worker, ‘the average farmer and the average | s| man are all allke well off. If tne | shrinks, there is not ome of the wit feel the shrinkage. Of are always some men who are | by good times just as there are | | some men who are not affected by bad times. | But, speaking broadly, it is true that it pros- perity comes all of us tend to share more or | less ‘therein, and that if adversity comes eacn of to a greater or less extent, feels the tension in this world the In- Unfortunately, nocent frequently find’ themselves obliged -to pay some of the penalty for the misdeeds of the guilty; and so if hard times come, whether they be to our own fault or to our mis- fortune, whether they be due to some burst of | speculative frenzy that has caused a portion of the business world to lose its head—a loss which no legislation can possibly. Supply—or whether they be due to any lack of wisdom in a portion of the world of labor—In each case the trouble once started is felt more or less in every walk of life, COMMUNITY OF INTEREST. It s all-essential to the continuance of omr healthy national life that we should recogni this community of interest among our people The welfare of each of us {8 dependent funda- mentally upon the welfare of all of us, and therefore in public life that man is the best representative of each of us who seeks to do | €904 to each by doing good to all; in other words, whose endeavor it {8 not to represent any special clazs and promote merely that class’s selfish interests, but to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interests by working for our comman country, We can keep our Government on a sane and healthy basie, we can make and keep oufF so- clal system what it should be, only on condi- tion of judging each man, not as a member of & class_ but on his worth as a man. It s an infamous thing in our American Jife, and fund- amentally treacherous to our matitutions, to apply to any man any test save that of his parsopal worth, or to draw between ‘two sety of men any diftinction save the distinction of condugt, the distinction that marks off those who @ well and wisely from those who do 1l and fMishly. There are g0od citizens and bad citizens in every class as in every locaMty, and the attitude of decent people toward gre; publie and soclal questions should be deter- mined, not by the accidental questions of em- ployment or locality, but by those deep set principles which represent the innermost souls of men. f oo failure in public and in private life thus to treat each man on his own merits, the recog. nition of this Government as being either for the poor as such or for the rich as such, would prove fatal to our republic, as such failure and such recognition have always proved fatal in the past to other republics. A healthy re- publican government must Test upon indi- Viduals, not upon classes or sections. As soon as it becomes government by a class or by a gection It departs from the old American ideal. It Is. of course, the merest trulsm to say that | ternations between tyranny and disorder, and - * free institutions #re of avall only to people and ipeculiar characteris- tics needed to take advantage of such institu- | The century that has just closed has | 1éssed muny and lamentable instan in | h people have seized a government free in form, or bave had it bestowed upon them, and have perr it under the forms of lib- to becc some species of despotism or anarchy, did not have in them the | ming liberty one of des y of word. Under such | ming liberty may be sup- 4 planted by T or despotism in the first place, or it may reach the road of despotism by the 1 of license and anarchy. It matters but little which road is taken. In either ca: is reached. People show them for liberty whether they or to tyranny; and class her it be the government of or the government of & mob, 18 atible with the principles es- lays of Washington and per- days of Lincoln. a plutocracy equally tablished in th petuated | M: s are needed by a people which | wou the power of self-government In | fact in name Among these quali- ties are forethought, shrewdness, self-restraint, | the courage which' refuses to abandon one's own rights and the disinterested and kindly good sense which enables one to do justice to | the rights of others. Lack of strength and lack | courage unfit men for self-government on the one hand: and on the other, brutal arros: | envy, in short, any manifestation of the spirit | of selffish disregard, whether of one's own | | dutles or of the rights of others, are equally fatal DANGER IN CLASS RULE. ; In the history of mankind many republl have risen, have flourished for a less or’greater | time, and then have fallen because thelr citi- | zens lost the power of governing themselves | and thereby of governing their state; and in | no way has this loss of power been so often | and so clearly shown as in the tendency to | turn the government in a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a gov- | ernment for the benefit of the people as a| whole. Again and again in the republics of ancient | Greece, in those of mediaeval Italy and me- diaevai Flanders, this tendency was shown, | and wheréver the tendency became a habit it | Invariably and inevitably proved fatal to the | the state. In whit whether resuit it mattered not one | movement was in favor of | one class or of another The outcome was | equally fatal, whether the country fell into the | hands of a wealthy oligarchy which exploited the poor or whether it fell under the domina- | tion of a turbulent mob which plundered the | rich. In both cases there resulted violent a! a final complete loss of liberty to all citizens— destruction in the end overtaking the class which had for the moment been victorious as well as that which had momentarily been de- feated. The death knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged ir the hands of those who sought, not to do | justice to all citizens rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its in- terests as opposed to the interests of others. The reason why our future is assured lies in the fact that our people are genuinely skilled in and fitted for self-government and therefore will spurn the leadership of those who seek to excite this ferocious and foolish class antagonism. The average Amerfean knows not only that | he himeelf intends to do about what is right, | but that his average fellow-countryman has the same intention and the same power to | make his intention: - effective. ~ He knows, whether he be business man, professional man, farmer, mechanic, employer, of wage- worker, that 'the welfare of each of these men is bound up with the welfare of all the others: that each is neighbor to the other, is actuated | by the same hopes and fears, has fundamentally | the same ideals, and that all alike have much | the sume virtues And the same faults. Our | average fellow-citizen is a eane and healthy | man. who belleves in decency and has a wholesome mind. He therefore feels an equal scorn alike for the man of wealth guilty of the mean and base spirit of arrogance toward those who are’ less well off, and for the man of cmall means who 4n his turn either feels or seeks to excite in others the feeling of mean and base envy’far those Who are better off. The two feelings, envy and arrogance, are but opposite sides of the same shield, but different’ developments of ~ the - same spirit. Fundamentally, . the unscrupulous rich man who seeks to exploit and oppress those who are. less well off s in spirit not opposed to, but identical with, the unscrupulous pdor man Who desires to plunder and oppress those who are better off. The courtler and the dema- gogue are but developments of the same type under different conditions, each manifesting the same servile apirit, the same desire to rise by pandering to base passions; though one panders to power in the shape of & single man and the other to power in the shape of a mul- titude. S0 likewise the man who wishes to rise by wronging others must by right be con- trasted, not with the man who likewise wishes to do wrong, though to a different set of peo- ple, but with the man who wishes to do jus- tice to all people and to wrong nome, GOOD AND BAD CITIZENSHIP. The line of cleavage between good and bad | this spirit shows itself in the form of bodily | | fair-dealing and common sense. citizenship lies, not between the man of wealth who acts squarely by his fellows and . ‘%5;53‘ i . | | NENT LABOR LEADERS ADDRE:! SCENE AT THE CHUTES CELEBRATION, AND TWO OF THE PROMI- SSING THE VAST CROWD THAT ASSEMBLED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EXERCISES. man who secks each day's wage by that s work, wronging no one and doing hi duty by his nelghbor: nor yet does this line of cleavage divide the unscrupulous wealthy man, who exploits others In his own interest, from the demagogue, or from the sullen and en- vious belng who wishes to attack all men of property_ whether they do well or ill. On the contrary, the line of cleavage between good citizenship dnd bad citizenship separates the rich man who does well from the rich man who does 1ll, the poor man of good conduct | from the poor man of bad conduct. This ling of cleavage lles at right angles to any such arbitrary line of division as that separat- ing one class from another, one locality from another, or men with a certain degree of prop- erty from those of & less degree of Property. The good citizen is the man who, whatever | his wealth or his poverty strives manfully to do his duty to himself, fo his family, to his | neighbor, to the State; who is incapable of the baseness which manifests itself either in arrogance or In envy, but who while demand- ing justice for himsélf is mo less scrupulous to do justice to others. It fs because the average Amerlcan citizen, rich or poor. is of | just this type that we have cause for our profound faith in the future of the republic. Ours is a government of liberty, by, through | and under the law. Lawlessness and conni- | vance at law-breaking—whether the law- breaking take the form of a crime of greed and cunning or of a crime of violence—are de- etructive not only of order, but of the true liberties which can only come through order. | 1f alive to thelr true Interests rich and poor | alike will set their faces like flint against the spitit which secks personal advantage by over- riding the laws, without regard to whether violence by one set of men or in the form of vulpine cunning by another set of men. Let the watchwords of all our people he the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, | Thé qualities | denoted by these words are essential to all of | us; as we deal with the complex industrial problems of to-day, the problems affecting not mercly the accumulation but even more the wise distribution of wealth. We ask no man's permission when We require him to obey the law; neither the permission of the poor man nor ‘yet of the rich man. Least of all can the man of great wealth afford to break the law, even for his own financial advantage; for the law I8 his prop and support, and it is both fool- ish and profoundly unpatriotic for him to fail in giving hearty support to those who show that there is in very fact one law, and one law only, allke for the rich and the poor, for the great and the small. Men_sincerely Interested in the due protec- tion of property, and men sincerely interested in seelng that the just rights of labor are guaranteed. should alike remember not only that in the long run neither the capitalist nor the wage-worker can be helped in healthy fashion save by helping the other; but also that to require elther side to obey the law and do its full duty toward the community is em- phatically to that side's real Interest. FOE OF THE WAGEWORKER. There is no worse enemy of the wage- worker than the man who condones mob vio- lence in any shape or Who preaches class hatred, and surely the slightest acquaintance with our industrial history ehould teach even the most shorteighted that the times of most suffering for our people'as a whole, the times ‘when businees {s stangnant and capital suffers from shrinkage and gets no return from its investments, are exactly the times of hard- Ships and want and grim disaster among the poor. If all the existing Instrumentalities of wealth could be abolished the first and sever- est suffering would come among those of us who are least well off at present. The wage- worker is well off only when the rest of the country ‘well off, and he can best contribute to this general well-being by showing sanity and a firm purpose to do justice to others. NO ROOM FOR THE IDLER. There is o room in our healthy American !ife for the mere idler, for the man or the woman whose object it s throughout life to shirk the duties which life ought to bring. Life can mean nothing worth meaning unless | its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achlevement of results worth achleving. A recent writer has finely sald: ‘After all, the saddest thing that can happen to a man is to carry no burdens. To be bent under too great a load is bad; to be crushed by It is lament- —~ in that there are possibllities But to carry no load at ali there is nothing In o No one seems to arrive at any goal really worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy laden.” Surely from our own experfence each one of us knows that this is true. From the great- est to the smallest. happiness and usefulness are largely found in, the same soul, and the joy of life is won In its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens. The men whom we most delight to honor in all this land are those who, in the iron years f{rom ‘61 to '65, bore on their shoulders- the burden of saving the Union. The: Jdid not choose the easy task. They did Dot shirk the difficult duty. Deliberately and T their own free will they strove for an ideal, upward and onward acros the stony slopes of greatness. They did the hardest work that was then to be dome; they bore the heaviest burden that any generation of Americans ever ad to bear., and because they did this they have won such proud joy as it has fallen to able, th but even t are gloriou | the lot of no other men to win, and have writ- ten their names forevermore on the golden honor roll of the nation. As it {s with the soldier, 80 it Is with the civillan. To win success in the busness world, to become a first-class me- chanic, a successful farmer, an able lawyer or doctor, means that the man has devoted his best emergy and power through long years to the achievement of his ends. So it is in the life of the family, upon which in the last analysis the whole welfare of the nation rests. { The man or woman who as bread-winner and home-maker, or as wife and mother, has done all that he or she can do, patiently and un- complainingly, is to be honored, and is to be envied by those who have never had the good fortune to feel the need and duty of doing such work. The woman who has borne and who has reared as they should be reared a | family of children has in the most emphatic manner deserved well of the republic. Her burden has been heavy and she has been able 10 bear it worthily only by the possession of resolution, of good semse, of conscience and of unselfishness. But If she has borne it well, then to her shall come the supreme - blessing, for in the words of the oldest and greatest of books, ‘'Her children shall rise up and call her blessed,”” and among the benefactors of the land her place must be with those who have done the best and the hardest work, whether as lawgivers or as soldlers, whether in public or in private life QUALITY OF OUR GREATNESS. This s not a soft and easy creed to preach It is a creed willingly learned only by men and women who, together with the softer vir- tues, possess also the stronger; who can do and dare and die at need, but who while life lasts will never filnch from their allotted tasi. You farmers and wage-workers and business men of this great State, of this mighty and wonderful nation, are gathered to-day, proud of your State and still prouder of your nation, because your forefathers and predecessors have lived up to just this creed. You have recelved from their hands a great inheritance, and you will leave an even greater inheritance to your children and your children’'s children, provided only that your practice alike in your private and yeur public lives the strong virtues thae have given us as a people greatness in the past. It is not enough to be well-meaning and kindly, but weak: neither is it enough to be strong, unless morality and decemcy go hand in hand with strength. We must possess the qualities which make us do our duty in our homes and among our Deighbors, and in addi- tion we must possess the qualifies which are indispensable to the makeup of every great and masterful nation—the qualities of courage and hardihood, of individual initiative and yot of power to combine for a common end, and above all, the resolute determination to per- mit no man and no set of men o sunder us one from the other by lines of caste or crecd or section. We must act upon the motto of all for each and each for all. There muat be ever present In our minds the fundamental truth that in a republic such as ours the only eafety i to stand neither for nor against any man because he is rich or because he s poor, because ne is engaged in one occupation or another, because he works with his brains or because he works with his hands. We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each Is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less. Finally we must keep ever In mind that & republic such as ours can extst only in virtue of the orderly liberty TO THEM Small Crowds Aitend at Cgutes. Speeches Are Made by Legggrs. | ISAPPOINTINGLY small was the attendance at the Chutes to | listen to the literary exercises | of the Labor Council in aft- ernoon. The theater was I y a quarter full and not even an ordinary Sunday crowd was in the grounds. Plen- | tiful criticism was heard among l‘.)vrn of the unions because the manage- ment had chosen a place for the speai ing where an admittance fee was ¢ | One zealous Individual arose ter just as the meeting comme Proposed to send out the band to rc up the delinquents. He was squelched with difficulty. J. K. Jones presided and introduced the | Bpeakers, prefacing the introductions with | some eloquent re: ks. Mayor Schmits | and many other prominent labor le were on the platform BENHAM SPEAKS. P G. B. Benham, Council, made a dress. sident Ha; He sald in part These exercises are held under the ausp! of the San Franeisco Labor Coun of the Labor t and forcible ad- an zation credited with being se o n - | this or any other country in it the necessities of the w ends it seeks are (M, a great surround the v We stand here, pledged by ou principles “to secure the e laws, or aid to establish ernment as will secur full prod et ef the riker at th It would not be ca noe for the world If the frate ¢ the workers were torn asunder. yourselt t struction of the trades uni | that catastrophe to the mere fin | the past. It is something that selt | indelibly up ds of the of this lan ity rests 1 back of productive laborers, 1 artisan purchasing power; the grea galned by industrial which the po ¢ coer: Against the assoctated the gates of the Ma cannot prevail. If it immense soctal disas feat of the tra these, our oppe capitalt 1 be among the tims of the general ter and ba forced to camp In the economi n they had mad. The result of these labor day cel ts a more adequate understanding tions one to the other, understanding of past events view the expanding hope of be further inspired to carry ciples of industrial equity and Those of us who are here may mitted to enter the promised land where and equity are the gulding stars effort, but we all may, by an int sight, gaze upon the possibilities future for the workers of world FURUSETH CHEERED. Andrew Furuseth was given a tumult ous welcome when he was introduced and several minutes elapsed before he could quiet the applause. He reviewed the growth of labor development since the days of absolutism_tracing a connection with the disfranchisement of the toilers and the spread of the doctrine of Christ The labor movement, he said, was a co- rollary of the doctrine enunciated by Christ of the equality of man under the fathership of God. Trades unionism, he said, In its sim- plest form was an assoclation of workers in similar lines who joined together pri- marily to learn that greatest of all les- sons, how to govern themselves. Out of this had grown many forms of organiza- tion and of that farm which bound to- gether a large number of different crafts under a strong central executive he ex- pressed the greatest concern as being the | rock upon which trades unfonism might be wrecked. The contract system also. whereby organizations agreed to work for certain parties and compelled a re- turn contract to refuse the employment of others, he denounced as treason to labor and of the utmost danger. Dancing was indulged in during the aft- ernoon and evening and a magnificent dis- play of fireworks wound up the exercises at night. L B o o e ‘sifke. and throush ita ad- ministration in such resolute and fearless fash- ijon as shall teach all that no man is gbove it and no man below it. At the close of the speech the Presi- dent, the State officers and the reception committee were the guests of the Stats Fair commission at a luncheon in the club house. The President, who watched the races from the clubhouse veranda, was particu- larly interested in the attempt of the stallion John A. McKerron to break the track record. When it waseannounced that he had accomplished this and low- ered his own record besides the President seemed greatly pleased, and later when Harry K. 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