Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — Labor Day Proclamation. [ARTICLE]

Labor Day Proclamation.

Governor Marshall’s Labor Day proclamation, just issued, designates Monday, September 6, in the following words: “From the beginning of time it has been part of the economy of life that man should labor. He who fails to do his share shirks a duty and imiloses a burden upon his fellow man. And yet this world-old custom has nowhere been dignified as it deserves save in the United States of America. Elsewhere it is not thought wrong that many should toil to create, while few should exist to destroy: In Indiana the honest son of toil who does an honest day’s labor is a peer of our realm and should gather all the fruit of his toil untithed by adverse legislation. Such citizens should be esteemed and honored. The republic can survive loss of wealth and name, but honest toil of hand, and brain, and heart, are vital to it. “To the end that those who love labor may not think their work forgotten, and in accordance with law and custom, I proclaim Monday, September 6, 1909, a holiday. On that day let those who toil with their hands exult in their high calling; let those who toil with their brains seek the highest and best that trust can offer; and let all who love a country, the chief asset of which is the character of its citizenship and sturdiness of its manhood, gfve every heartbeat to the prayer that the hour may soon come when industrial troubles will be settled, not by the law of the land, but by the law of universal brotherhood. May the day promote justice, charity and peace. THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Governor.”