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Lutherraann Normal School Mirror.
"United We Stand, Divided We Fall."
Vol. XIX. No. 7. SIOUX FALLS, S. D., APRIL, 1917. Whole No. 1 64.
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The Call of the West.
Dakota, Dakota, all honor to thee !
How vast are your prairies, how grand
and how free !
The North Wind comes sweeping down
over the lea,
And bears on his wings new life to
you and me.
Ho ho ! for the land where every cheek
is red,
Where the frost and the snow doth
creak at your tread,
And the stars glitter bright in the blue
overhead.
Though the East has its charms, it is
crowded back there ;
As for me, let me roam in the land of
do and dare,
Let me drink the cool water and breathe
the pure air,
And sleep the sweet sleep of the land
of no care.
Lead me farther and farther into the
far West,
To Elysian fields, where the sun sinks
to rest.
Somewhere over there let me build me
a nest,
And there let me liVe with the one I
love best. AN ALUMNA.
The Labor Movements of the
Thirties.
As long as labor was almost wholly
agricultural, there was little opportunity
for organization in order to improve
conditions. There was also little need
for it. Hours of labor were excessive,
and the wages low, but this was be-cause
labor produced little surplus
wealth. There had been no sharp dis-tinction
between labor and capital, and
no permanent labor class. But between
1800 and 1825 these conditions changed
rapidly in the United States, and the
change was not to the advantage of the
workers. The mass of hired labor
shifted from agriculture to the trades
and manufactures. The growth of
cities (in which these industries more
and more were concentrated) crowded
the poorer population into the unwhole-some
tenements, where were conditions
of disease and crime, against which
there was neither science nor law to
guard. The growth of machinery mul-tiplied
wealth, but the increase was left
almost wholly in the hands of a new
capitalist class, made up of large manu-facturers,
speculators, and money kings.
In name, wages had risen, but they had