"The way of a ship in the midst of the sea"

The way of a human being in the midst of life is like that of a
ship on the ocean.

Make up your mind that your own way at least shall be controlled
by the rudder of conscience, and learn from the passing ships a
lesson of use in your own life.



ONE OF THE MANY CORPSES IN THE JOHNSTOWN MINE

The widow says to the mine owner: "Here he is, dead--killed
working for you. Where were you when he was killed? Driving in
your carriage, enjoying the difference between his EARNINGS
and his PAY. Was one dollar and thirty cents per day too much
to pay him for this risk? Was it too much to let him save
something for us--who now have nothing? Is there nothing to
arbitrate when the man who risks his life and gets nothing asks
arbitration of the man who risks nothing and gets all? ----

There are many men in America--honest and sincere--who believe
that strikers are nearly always right, that failure of a strike
is a calamity.

Other men, less numerous, but also honest and sincere, consider
strikes an evil. They believe that labor unionism threatens
"capital," threatens national energy, and our national industrial