Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-07
1917 From the Vernon, Patriot.
"RlSING" In THE WORLD. ~
"Ths rank Is but the guinea's stamp,
A man g man for a. that" ,r.''.

i} "The rank 10 but the guines,s stamp.
arta + A man g man for a. that, ~
We saw it stated the other day, that a
member Of Congress, from Tennessee
was formerly Tailor, and the inference
drawn from the statement was, that he had
risen, from a Tailor to member of Con.
gress 1t strikes US that all such talk is
excessively deleterious TO our republican
society. The result of tits 10 teach me-
chanics that they are inferior to those who
get their living by their wits, and that, in
order 10 rise in the world, they must aban.
don their business and seek their bread in
some ofIhe fashionable professions. The
truth of it is, however, that although the
learned professions are necessary, yet the
producer, the mechanic, the great lo6or4
ing class, must Of necessity stand first and
foremost in the order of worldly things
Now, pray, show US a wor,hier man than
your Tailor, or your Shoemaker, or your
Blacksmith, no labors honestly through
the day N his vocation, doing like man,
what he finds to do-what, in the matter
Of making clothes. patching boots. and
shoeing horses, 1t is necessary should be
done. Can this man rise from his busi-
ness to any other that he may follow as
mere means of getting living? Your
Law profession, your Medical profession,
your Divinity profession, so far as they
are used as a means of a liUing, to make
bread and money out of, what better are
they than your profession Of Coat. mend.
ing, your profession of rse.shoeing. or
your profession of Shoe. making? Talk
about thrifty, honorable mechanics ri.
sing, to half:starved pettifoger, whom
society calls lawyer, or a maker of
rotten wood pills called physician--bah
rising! a..-..
We are no preacher of agrarianism.--
The learned professions are all right,
proper, useful and necessary but what
good is to be, nay, what evil is not. &C.
complished by inducing the shoemaker,
the blacksmith, the printer, and such like,
to understand that their business is louer
than that of the learned professions Is
it not better for them to know that their
professions are also necessary land that it
is the manliness NTH uhich they labor in
the calling, and not the calling, that shall
bring to them ''consciences void of offence
towards God and man." and entitle them
to the consideration of worthy and honor.
able members of Society?
You Law teachers, and you teachers of
Religion and you Physicians, you are all
necessary. The mechanic has no time
to devote to more than the general prin.
ciples of your professions he must trust
you in the matters you profess, and he
does trust you; but none of your airs,
gentlemen for the old shoe maker and
the jacket builder are just as necessary as
you are. They need you and you need
them let it be so understood then, and
SO agreed. You know great deal that
they do not know; and thsy are up 10 you,
for they know great deal that you do not
know, and, without their knowledge of
shoe. making, house. building, nail making,
and such like, you would be poorly off.
1t ought to be said, however, to por-
ton of the laboring people who are con.
tinually crying out against those whom all
demagogues represent to them to be arts.
tocrats, that you often do very great wrong
when you hear such cries. You do, often,
still greater wrong when you fancy that
every professional man feels above you.
1t is, nine cases out of ten, mere fancy ;
for, we tell you, and you must hear US in
this matter, for we are defending you now,
it is all mere fancy. You will meet now
and then, thing of starch and rattan, who
gives himself airs and turns up his nose
at you but who made you fool that you
should mind him? Do you get mad and
feel envious towards your cock turkey,
because he spreads his wings and struts
about you and fills your ears with his
gobble! gobble! gobble We tell you
that no true man ever feels above any
nan. You fancy sometimes as you stand
in the door of your workshop, and see a
man ride by, ruffle in his bosom and a
! gold watch in his pocket, that he is an
aristocrat and feels above you! This
follows as a matter of course, by no man.
ner of means. The ruffie, the gold watch,
ETC., may be mere matter of habit, of ed
ucation, things to which he has been &C.
customed from childhood, and which be
thinks as little of as you do of your apron
and plain Dover unbleached.
The true. aristocrats of the country are
the producers. It would be better per-
haps if there were not so many who live
on other peoples productions; blu, class
of this kind we must have, and, as long as
the producers feed them, it is as well to
let the matter pass without m aking much
trouble about it. There is a portion Of
our laboring population who understand
their position. They perform their re-
quisites of labor in their business conten.
ted, happy, and envying nobody, looking
with green eyes upon no other mans bu'