Carpenter . the weeping mother, the crying sonor frail daughter, is somewhere in thesweatshops of poverty and distress, andthat over them are the brute masters ofsordid wealth and greed, of whom let meask one simple question—how can we ex-pect such unfortunates to educate them-selves or be educated when living pricesare soaring upward and wages tumblinglower and lower? The C a r p e o t e ir In the siftings of thought, it seems tome that capital is endeavoring to educatethe people to believe in an industrial des-potism, which it holds should obtain tocheck the toilers in their demands for bet-
Carpenter . the weeping mother, the crying sonor frail daughter, is somewhere in thesweatshops of poverty and distress, andthat over them are the brute masters ofsordid wealth and greed, of whom let meask one simple question—how can we ex-pect such unfortunates to educate them-selves or be educated when living pricesare soaring upward and wages tumblinglower and lower? The C a r p e o t e ir In the siftings of thought, it seems tome that capital is endeavoring to educatethe people to believe in an industrial des-potism, which it holds should obtain tocheck the toilers in their demands for bet-ter living wage, for I believe organizedlabor is exerting all its mental and physi- cal powers to enlarge the enlightened prin-ciple of industrial intelligence, power andeflBciency, and to make labor a greater fac-tor in the worlds industrial advancementand improvement. I have hope that the people will be forthis principle and against this despotism. THE GET-TOGETHER SPIRIT. (By Howard E. Robertson, .Jr.). LEGAL friend came verynear being fined for con-tempt of court for declar-ing that judges shouldbe punished for having acontempt of the law, andif the public could reviewsome decisions certainjudges have rendered, itwould agree with my legalfriend. Some peculiar things appear in la-bor cases, and many suggest to the work-ing people a sharper vigilance and closerunity, for unity has a power, whether it beexercised by labor, the capitalist, politi-cians or the judiciary, or whom. What ispeculiar about it is that among these thepolitician plays to please the other three,the judges to please him and the capitalist,and the latter to please himself. And thishe tries to do by attempting to make allothers do his bidding and denying thatjustice which impartial law respects, thekind that some judges have a contemptfor. Had all labor realized in the fall of 1908what power was in political unity andmade it effective for its industrial unity,or had its leaders forced candidates to sig-na
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