Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — Labor Day Proclamation Issued by Governor Marshall. [ARTICLE]

Labor Day Proclamation Issued by Governor Marshall.

Governor Marshall has issued the following Labor Day proclamation: “Whoever sees the shuttle dart across the loom and views the wondrous works of modern machinery, whoever hears the complex noises of industrial life, whoever feels the pulsing of the power behind our progress, whoever tasts the ripened fruitage of the field and vine and thinks only of the brain behind it all, is half made in the world } where whole men are needed. The race and all its hopes will come to naught only when its children are born armless. The de-» signer is impotent without the builder. Our civilization is ambidextrous he who does things must be either one hand or the other. Indiana has been wise enough to remember this and by law to provide that the first Monday in September shall be a holy day for labor. Let us this year keep it gladly, not grudgingly; let us keep it in the spirit as well as ii» the letter; keep it with a vow to deal justly with and think kindly of those who make life bearable, nay, even beautiful; keep it as our brothers, not our servants’ birthday. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state of Indiana at the capitol in the city of Indianapolis, the 21st day of August, in the year of our Lord 1912.”