True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-02-27
For the True American.
TEMPERANCE NO. 2.
DIVISION OF LABOR

DIVISION OF LABOR
In all kinds of handcraft manufacture,
division of labor has at least these advan.
,tages il facilitates the production Of ar
ticles, and they are more completely fin
ished. l shall illustrate by instancing
boot.maktng-merely noting the main di.
visions. They are first cut out then
crimped, next closed, and then 6nishe d.
Each artizan, having but one department
of the craft TO learn, becomes very ex-
pert. Readers, should you ever visit a
boot establishment, you cannot find
workman who made one boot in the vast
number of boots that are made there.
r. An extensive system of manufacture is
now being carried on, and its operatives
are busy throughout the length and breadth
of our country. 1t is a system which
deeply effects the welfare of society, and,
like boot making, its operations are faci
itated, and its effectiveness vastly increas-
ed by division of labor. 1t matters not
how completely finished its product may
be, moi one of The operatives, ever claims
The credit of the job-not one will say 81
did it," And in fact no one Of them can
in truth do so, for they are all, from him
that cuts out to him that finishes off, con-
cerned in the making, and doubtless each
will lie rewarded according TO his work.
The object of these articles is to expose
the working of this system, and to assist
in some degree, to rouse and deepen pub
lie opinion againstit, till that Odium which
is now attached 10 part of the system,
shall be indeliby affixed TO the Wh0le.-
Nay part is even considered creditable, ,
honorable. Much praise is frequently
bestowed on publican, because he keeps
an orderly house, because no drunkards
can get dram there, notwithstanding the
sale of Intoxicating beverages may be his
principal source of income. TO such a
house resort those who consider a social
glass honorable, but detest drunkenness =
Should drunken man stagger in there,
he is turned out, for the credit of the
house would suffer; | have said these
houses are commonly esteemed credila-
ble-ihat social glass by many is thought
honorable, and persons resort to them and
indulge in this practice, who would scorn
10 be seen in the low rumholes, where
drunkenness and obscenily exhibit them
selves in their most hdious aspects
Were the neophyte first introduced into
these places he would shrink back appal-
led from the horrid revelry. He would
dread the loss of reputation that must soon
follow, and he yet values his character
He must be gradually iniliated-he must
pass through The several stages of the sys-
tenn, and be slowly divested oflove for his
reputation and feel the cravings of Vita
ted and Unsuitable appetite, before he cali
ioin in such debauches. But the neo-
pbyte visits not these places, he is pre-.
vailed on TO take social glass at the cred
liable house-there he first acquires IL
king for siimulen,s and becomes habitua.
ted 10 using them. He is in the cutting
out department of the system, and as soor
as his sensibililies become sufficiently
blun,ed, he joins some jolly fellows on {
high which ends by getting low. Thi:
repeated few times, and he is sufficient
ly Soaked for crimping. And thus he
is gradually passed onward and down
ward till he is completely finished
Readers, the degraded being you have
seen staggering-jabbering nonsense o.
yelling .blasphemous curses, or sleeping
sheltered, needless alike of driving snow
or chilling rain, once walked erect. Far
far better did he discharge lile's high, no
ly duties, before the demon Inlemperanc,
set its brand of shame on his brow-be
fore it robbed him of mans distinctive al
tribute, reason. In possession of man
hoods glorious faculties, he walked be
fore men, before il sunk him to The low
est state of human degradation. Read
ers, his fall began with the SOCIAL cLAs
in reputable house. A. M.
BLooMINoDALE.
O7-The last Wellsvlle Patriot says
"The revival in the Methodist Episcopa