Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1909 — Labor Day Cuts But Little Figure In the Country. [ARTICLE]

Labor Day Cuts But Little Figure In the Country.

Today, Monday, is labor day, which by the laws, of the country, is a legal holiday, but. it don’t cut much ice in the small cities and towns and in the country. In the large cities, however, and wherever labor unions exist, the day is one of the most important holidays of the year. Parades are held, speakers address great audiences, all business is suspended, and homage paid to those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. In Rensselaer the banks are closed, but sH other avocations are plied with the usual amount of vigor and the elusive dollar is given a chase up and down the business avenues of life. To the rural districts labor day means another day of labor and there is no relaxation until the setting sun casts long shadows athwart the fields and the busy bread winner, exhausted by the day’s hustle, prepares*for a night’s rest and early rise for a fresh start the following day. While silver tongued orators are paying tribute to the homage of labor in the cities, the farmers, the greatest workers of the ages, are finishing up the season’s threshing, fall plowing for another crop and milking a dozen cows twice a day.