confuse the question, and to mystify the people, by raising the cry
of over-production! The inexorable law of supply and demand! The
impossibility of our manufacturers longer competing in the markets of
the world, against the cheap products of the pauper labor of Europe,
while they are obliged by the unions, to pay such exorbitant wages here.
This cry has grown more insistent, with each succeeding year.
Nevertheless, the fact still remains, that but for the continuous
opposition of the united labor organizations, long before this time, the
wages paid in Europe, would govern the price of labor in this Republic.
What then would have happened to our workers, the basic units of our
government? Fortunately, the campaign of education still continues! The
people at large are just beginning to wake up to the importance of the
labor question! They have studied it carefully and earnestly. They have
learned that in productive labor, muscular effort is a mental
demonstration.

"They have learned, that the products of the skillfully educated,
intelligent, refined, moral, self-respecting worker of this Republic,
can successfully, compete with the inferior products, of a less
intelligent or pauperized labor of any country, in any of the markets of
the world. No matter how high the wages of the former, or how low the
wages of the latter may be.

"They have learned, that the demand, in any market for a superior
article, will always drive out the inferior.

"They have learned, that the question of the unemployed, is a question
of the utmost importance, which demands the immediate attention of all
patriots. They have learned, that the unemployed we shall have with us
in ever increasing numbers, so long as the competitive system shall
last.

"They have learned, that not one from the ranks of the unemployed, can
again become a worker, without paying a handsome bonus for the
privilege, by allowing some one to pocket the lion's share of the
profits he may be able to earn.

"They have learned, that when society encourages conditions, which
cause the laborer to look upon any calamity as a blessing in disguise,
because it offers work for the unemployed; that society, must be
reorganized.

"They have learned, that whenever an industrial system produces
conditions, which make the laborer see only disaster for his individual
interests, in every labor-saving invention which may be introduced; such
a system, must be superseded by a better on