Progress Is Born Of Agitation.

Ten Thousand Times Has The Labor Movement Stumbled And Bruised Itself. We Have Been Enjoined By The Courts, Assaulted By Thugs, Charged By The Militia, Traduced By The Press, Frowned Upon In Public Opinion, And Deceived By Politicians. 'but Notwithstanding All This And All These, Labor Is Today The Most Vital And Potential Power This Planet Has Ever Known, And Its Historic Mission Is As Certain Of Ultimate Realization As Is The Setting Of The Sun.

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.

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.

The Truth Has Always Been Dangerous To The Rule Of The Rogue, The Exploiter, The Robber. So The Truth Must Be Supressed.

When I Rise It Will Be With The Ranks, And Not From The Ranks.