I Would Rather A Thousand Times Be

Thousands Of Years Ago The Question Was Asked: "am I My Brother's Keeper?" That Question Has Never Yet Been Answered In A Way That Is Satisfactory To Civilized Society.

Nothing Is More Humiliating Than To Have To Beg For Work, And A System In Which Any Man Has To Beg For Work Stands Condemned. No Man Can Defend It.

In All The History Of Organized Labor, From The Earliest Times To The Present Day, No Body Of Union Workingmen Ever Served In A More Humiliating And Debasing Role Than That In Which The Railway Unions Appear At This Very Hour Before The American People And The World.

If You Go To The City Of Washington, And You Examine The Pages Of The Congressional Directory, You Will Find That Almost All Of Those Corporation Lawyers And Cowardly Politicians, Members Of Congress, And Misrepresentatives Of The Masses - You Will Find That Almost All Of Them Claim, In Glowing Terms, That They Have Risen From The Ranks To Places Of Eminence And Distinction. I Am Very Glad That I Cannot Make That Claim For Myself. I Would Be Ashamed To Admit That I Had Risen From The Ranks. When I Rise It Will Be With The Ranks, And Not From The Ranks.

If The People Would But Analyze The Human Equation Of A Prison They Might Better Account For The Crimes That Are Visited Upon Them In Cities, Towns, And Hamlets, Ofttimes By Men Who Graduated With An Education And Equipment For Just That Sort Of Retributive Service From Some Penal Institution.