Carpenter . his way to Wash-ington to be inaugurated Presidentho delivered an address in Inde-pendence Hall, Philadelphia. On Wash-ingtons birthday, in 1861, in which he said,referring to the purpose of theleaders in the then impending re-bellion : It is an effort to placeCapital on an equal footing, ifnot above. Labor. Labor is priorto and independent of is only the fruit of Laborand could not have existed ifLabor had not first existed. La-bor is the superior of Capital and deservesmuch the higher consideration. Let theworking people beware of surrenderingpolitical power which
Carpenter . his way to Wash-ington to be inaugurated Presidentho delivered an address in Inde-pendence Hall, Philadelphia. On Wash-ingtons birthday, in 1861, in which he said,referring to the purpose of theleaders in the then impending re-bellion : It is an effort to placeCapital on an equal footing, ifnot above. Labor. Labor is priorto and independent of is only the fruit of Laborand could not have existed ifLabor had not first existed. La-bor is the superior of Capital and deservesmuch the higher consideration. Let theworking people beware of surrenderingpolitical power which they already possess,and which, if surrendered, will surely beused to shut the door of advancement forsuch as they, and fix new disabilities uponthem until all liberty is lost. Considering the crisis Labor is nowfacing the above extract from Lincoln saddress should be framed and hung inevery union meeting hall in the land, whilethe fight is now on to save the white work-ingmen of the country from a more in-. sidious form of slavery than the chat-tel slavery he freed the nationfrom. It will be well for us to refresh ourminds and be guided by the words of wis-dom from the man who guided the nationthrough the most momentous crisis in itshistory. And it should also be made clearthat organized labor is endeavoring, as ithas a perfect right to do according to theDeclaration of Independence, when anyform of governn:ent becomes destructiveto life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-ness, To institute new govern-ment, laying its foundations onsuch principles and organizing itspowers in such forms as to themshall seem most likely to effecttheir safety and our course by the lightsbequeathed us by these greatleaders of the common Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln,organized labor, freighted with the hopesand aspirations of those who are contend-ing for more lilaerty—for themselves andposterity—can face the future confidentthe same principles that in the past
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