Isn't it well to have a trades-union system which curbs the avariciousness of employers and gives workmen a chance to develop the best that is in them? Isn't it better for England to have that 'longshoreman develop into a scientist than to let some man who employs him make an extra shilling a day out of his labor, even though it should add a little to the exports of England? ---- A country's greatness depends on the quality of the men that live in the country, not on goods manufactured to sell to outside nations. Rome was doing little exporting when she ruled the world. She was breeding men, independent and brave, who could bring the products of the world to her. She did not need to worry about exports, nor does any other country need to worry about them. The thing to worry about is the condition of your citizens, the education of children, the decent treatment of women, the equality of laws. Other things take care of themselves. 150 AGAINST 150,000--WE FAVOR THE 150,000 It should not take long to convince a man fit to live in a republic that public welfare demands the support of Union Labor. No better proof of that could be asked than a spectacle presented in Chicago. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY contractors have practically locked out ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND men. The contractors want bigger profits--to be got through underpaying and overworking their employes. The men want better pay and shorter hours. ---- Leave out sentiment if you choose. Ignore the fact that on one side the few who enjoy everything are industriously squeezing the many who have little enjoyment. Look at things purely from the standpoint of benefit to the nation and the nation's future. If the hundred and fifty win, they will have a little more money. Their wives and daughters will dress a little more grotesquely. Their families will be able to go abroad oftener and stay longer. Their heirs will be able to make more complete idiots of themselves--and that is all. Personally we should like to see all contractors' families prosperous--all American families prosperous. No man's wife or daughter can be too happy to suit us, provided things more important be not neglected. ---- If Union Labor wins, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND families will be able to lead at least decent American workingmen's lives. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND wives will be able to dress their children comfortably and to dress themselves respectably. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND families of children will be brought up more nearly as American children ought to be. Which is more important: THE WELFARE OF 150 CONTRACTORS' FAMILIES? (They will have enough anyhow.) Or THE WELFARE OF 150,000 WORKINGMEN'S FAMILIES? (They will have only a decent living at best.)