No Lasting Gain Has Ever Come From

It Is Impossible For Capitalists And Laborers To Have Common Interests.

So Long As We Have Held Fast To Voluntary Principles And Have Been Actuated And Inspired By The Spirit Of Service, We Have Sustained Our Forward Progress, And We Have Made Our Labor Movement Something To Be Respected And Accorded A Place In The Councils Of The Republic. Where We Have Blundered Into Trying To Force A Policy Or Decision, Even Though Wise And Right, We Have Impeded If Not Interrupted The Realization Of Our Own Aims.

No Race Of Barbarians Ever Existed Yet Offered Up Children For Money

Doing For People What They Can And Ought To Do For Themselves Is A Dangerous Experiment. In The Last Analysis, The Welfare Of The Workers Depends Upon Their Own Initiative. Whatever Is Done Under The Guise Of Philanthropy Or Social Morality Which In Any Way Lessens Initiative Is The Greatest Crime That Can Be Committed Against The Toilers. Let Social Busybodies And Professional "public Morals Experts" In Their Fads Reflect Upon The Perils They Rashly Invite Under This Pretense Of Social Welfare.

The Trade Union Movement Represents The Organized Economic Power Of The Workers... It Is In Reality The Most Potent And The Most Direct Social Insurance The Workers Can Establish.