The ballot of united labor expresses the people’s will and the people’s
will is the supreme law of a free nation.
The ballot means that labor is no longer dumb, that at last it has a
voice, that it may be heard and if united shall be heeded.
Centuries of struggle and sacrifice were required to wrest this symbol
of freedom from the mailed clutch of tyranny and place it in the hand of
labor as the shield and lance of attack and defense.
The abuse and not the use of it is responsible for its evils.
The divided vote of labor is the abuse of the ballot and the penalty is
slavery and death.
The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who
have and toil not, and solve forever the problem of democracy.