Doing For People What They Can And

All Other Holidays Are In A More Or Less Degree Connected With Conflicts And Battles Of Man's Prowess Over Man, Of Strife And Discord For Greed And Power, Of Glories Achieved By One Nation Over Another. Labor Dayis Devoted To No Man, Living Or Dead, To No Sect, Race, Or Nation.

In Many Instances The Conduct Of Colored Workmen, And Those Who Have Spoken For Them, Has Not Been In Asking Or Demanding That Equal Rights Be Accorded To Them As To White Workmen, But Somehow Conveying The Idea That They Are To Be Petted And Coddled And Given Special Consideration And Special Privilege. Of Course That Can't Be Done.

You Can't Weigh The Soul Of A Man With A Bar Of Pig-iron.

One Fact Stands Out In Bold Relief In The History Of Man's Attempts For Betterment. That Is That When Compulsion Is Used, Only Resentment Is Aroused, And The End Is Not Gained. Only Through Moral Suasion And Appeal To Man's Reason Can A Movement Succeed.

There May Be Here And There A Worker Who For Certain Reasons Unexplainable To Us Does Not Join A Union Of Labor. That Is His Right. It Is His Legal Right, No Matter How Morally Wrong He May Be. It Is His Legal Right, And No One Can Or Dare Question His Exercise Of That Legal Right.