Word: laborers
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When we try to estimate and fathom life, we at once see some prominent qualities which all life possesses. The first is the necessity for universal labor. To every human being is allotted a certain amount of work. If one person fails to perform his share, it falls to the portion of some other man to do, in addition to his own. There are no lands or peoples free from this inexorable condition of toil...
...truly successful living. The faith which characterized every attitude of Jesus toward life is still the faith with which to meet the life which confronts us today. Trusting implicitly in God, we can toil on, knowing that all will be well. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," is surely a message more winsome than any other the world has ever heard. Faith in God will not free us from labor, but will lift it from our shoulders till it becomes very light...
...navigation laws have long required changing.- (a) American shipping has steadily declined since the introduction of iron construction in the early fifties: Kelley, Question of Ships 18.- (b) Though heavily protected, ship building has not thrived: Codman, Free Ships, 45-(1) Cost of labor (in iron ships nine-tents of whole cost) is too great here: Free Ships 30-32.- (c) The manning of ships even now is a more important industry than shipbuilding: The Question of Ships, 30.- (1) Over fifty times as much wages paid to sailors as to shipbuilders' operatives: Ibid. (d) In case...
...Economic.- (1) Problem of the unemployed in dull times increased: Publications of the Immigration Restriction League, No. 4, SS 10, 11, and No. 8.- (2) Lowering of wages: Smith, Em. and Im. p. 140.- (3) Lowering the standard of living: Yale Review, I. 135 (Aug. 1892).- (4) Labor troubles increased: F. A. Walker in American Economic Association Papers, III, 170-172.- (c) Social.- (1) Excessive proportion of paupers are foreign born.- (2) Of insane and diseased persons.- (3) Of criminals: H. C. Lodge, The Census and Immigration, in Century, XLVI. 737-739 (Sept. 1893).- (4) Colonies in cities and country...
...continuation of immigration is desirable. Cong. Record, XVI, 1788-89 (Feb. 17, 1885); Forum, XIII, 360-70.- (a) Unskilled laborers on public and semi-public works, in heavy manufacturing works, etc., release intelligent American labor for higher pursuits; Forum, XIII, 363.- (b) Intelligent farmers for the development of our agricultural resources in the south and west; ibid.- (c) Domestic servants.- (d) The educated and thrifty constitute a large part of the immigrants: No. Am. Rev., vol. 134, pp. 346-67.- (e) Immigration will not injure American labor,- (1) Wages have steadily increased in the last twenty years: Atkinson, in Forum...