If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.