Is it not a fact that no matter what we achieve, we are belittled by the Socialists? Even the Labor Day we have achieved for all the people of our country--the proposition comes in here to abolish it and to make Labor Day in line with the Labor Day of continental Europe, May 1st. The American Federation of Labor in 1889 addressed a letter to the French workingmen, suggesting to them to celebrate the 1st of May when the carpenters were to inaugurate the eight-hour day; and from that suggestion, made by your humble servant, they have made the first of May of each year their holiday, and so they celebrate it, usually on the Sunday before or the Sunday after. They take no holiday, but they sometimes celebrate it in the evening of May 1st.

In no country on the globe has labor ever taken a day for itself without asking consent, or begging or apologizing for itself, except in this country. And yet the Socialists want us to give up our own Labor Day and celebrate on May 1st, in the evening.