Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1905 — To Work Is Honorable. [ARTICLE]

To Work Is Honorable.

There has existed, and still exists to some extent, a false sentiment that labor is degrading or belittling. The contrary is true. An ideal condition of society can come only when every member of it recognizes that he is bound to exercise whatever skill or strength or faculty he possesses to its fullest capacity, not selfishly or for the sake of gain merely, but for his own happiness and development and for the benefit of all. And there should be no restriction pn anyone, either legal or social or through association, in regard to his labor or its fruits. If by patient application or natural endowment a man possesses more skill than his fellow or if he chooses to be more industrious he is entitled to the full benefit of it —Cincinnati Enquirer.

There is a reason to believe that the traffic in Chinese girls has been renewed in San Francisco in the last six mpnths on an extensive scale, and the Chinese immigration bureau there is under hot newspaper fire. It costs the slave dealers of Chinatown 11,000 to land a girl illegally, but how the money Is divided, and whether any of It goes to white oOdata, are still open question*