Our Movement Is Of The Working People,

The Freedom Of Speech And The Freedom Of The Press Have Not Been Granted To The People In Order That They May Say Things Which Please, And Which Are Based Upon Accepted Thought, But The Right To Say The Things Which Displease, The Right To Say The Things Which Convey The New And Yet Unexpected Thoughts, The Right To Say Things, Even Though They Do A Wrong.

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.

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.

Our Movement Is Of The Working People, For The Working People, By The Working People. . . . There Is Not A Right Too Long Denied To Which We Do Not Aspire In Order To Achieve; There Is Not A Wrong Too Long Endured That We Are Not Determined To Abolish.

What Does Labor Want? We Want More Schoolhouses And Less Jails; More Books And Less Arsenals; More Learning And Less Vice; More Leisure And Less Greed; More Justice And Less Revenge; In Fact, More Of The Opportunities To Cultivate Our Better Natures, To Make Manhood More Noble, Womanhood More Beautiful, And Childhood More Happy And Bright.