And until they do fix their own wages they
are not men at all. The ox does not fix his hours of labor or
the quantity of his corn. But the man does. The man controlled
like an ox is nearer an ox than a man.
We delight in the efforts of unions. We are advocates of every
movement that tends to divide among a still larger class the good
things of the world.
But this newspaper is no mere labor union organ. We care more
for the welfare of the humblest, non-organized, underpaid,
underfed citizen than for the finest, most highly paid, most
intelligent mechanic.
The man who is least well off needs our help most. He needs,
above all men, some practical PROOF that he lives where men
are equal. He should be the object of earnest thought on the
part of the five-dollar-a-day man.
It is the five-dollar-a-day man, the able mechanic, whom we
address to-day: ----
Many of your thoughts and words, Mr. Five-Dollar Man, are
devoted to plutocrats. You are not free from envy. You
consider, and with perfect justice, that you do not--even with
your five dollars--get your share of the world's good things.
But, for a change to-day, will you look DOWN instead of UP?
You work hard at five dollars per day "to fatten in comfort the
happy millionaire employer.
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