Give the laborer his wage before his perspiration be dry

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.