Smyrna times., 1858-01-14
Mechanical VS.. Manual Labor,


stant warfare between machinery and marua
Dab THE operators in the latter mode con-
tending and believing that the introduction u
vast machinery would be the means of throw.
ing them out of employment and depriving
them of the means of daily sustenance How
ever apparent and reasonable such arguments
may at first strike the mind, how different it is
when reduced to application! In fact, exactly
the reverse is the case,-just in proportion as
tG0or-savtHg machines are invented, in the
same proportion does the demand for labor in.
crease. In proof of this, we have only 10 look
back few years, when the sickle was used in
harvesting, and the old tunbling tom in getting
out the grain for market. At that time labor
did not cost half so much and was not half ss
difficult TO be had as at present. In the same
way we might compare the la6ors of the house.
hold, when the women not only had the present
duties OF house-work to perform, bu: spun
wove and knit all the garments in wear by both
sexes,-yet we hear not of half the difficulty
in getting domestcs then as now, notwitb.
standing the real labor of the former time-.tbo
manufacturing OF " lindsey, woolsey and long
hose us entirely discarded in modern housc.
wifery. We might go on, and compare Tho
wooden to the patent mole-b board plow. the
ploddIng sower to the almost perfect drill. the
treadlng-ioor TO the thresher and cleaner that
with almost stroke prepares the grain for mar.
ket (dolng the work formerly of weeks in an c
hour)' and thus through the whole range Of t
"nechanics and physics but it is unneces. t
sary, as the reflective mind takes them all in at
glance The following extract from the Il
speech OF WIN. ID. Lewis, Esq, before a mum. "
Der OF gentlemen last week. in Philadelob;o ..
who had been on a visit of inspection ,o tho d
new mechanical bakery (the nlodus oDerand; "
0l whlch Is given on our first page), presents s
the subject of Capital and Labor in lucid On
manner: :;
''Cap:tal, in its general sen c. is the hand F.
maid OF labor, and in civilized life the two are -,
inSeparaoIe companions. Every artificial oh. !.
Jcct that strikes the eye is their iulnt prodpc. Ut
A'o" Tue huiAOest ha6ltations no less than the ia
most gorgeous ed'tices; the most modest b,Lorr
IN our city no less than The spacious building N
"hch we now are, and its expensive machinery nj
:" The food we cat the water we drink IIa
clothes We wear, are all brought within onr 'h'
ieac1 Oy the harmonious action of these eln lh'
hehls' without capital, the axe of the wood MI
man, the spade Of the dItcher, and the rlonIh We
Ot Tue husbandman would have no empIovme,i -.
nor even existence. Without ca pilaL IN All :, ~
'he embodiment OF the mental creations of in.
'enti'e genus, how many of the greatest p;
ie"ieVemehts OF science ln physics would have
been wanting | might adduc? the stooo, 49,, IN
sne and It's nnumerable offspring. as The ms, las
,Om'9en' "ra. Illustrations OF this truth And in q
.h;nar, I,,e;;lt;s 'eut improvements IN ma mig
'ninery, diminishing the necessity of mammal
aoor, been brought into use without temnor,ry '''
inconvenience 10 particular classes, use The The
ERIN temporary advisedly, because those classes day
ave always soon found remunerative emoIov- nea
heh' 10 othcr avocations profitable instead Of oil
lnPronlaole to the community. Have not The .1
ieamOoats OF the Mississippi and the VoIga dis use
"aeeu l.o'h lhelr oars the laborious boatmen.
1t to give them other and better occunations
at first in supplying with needful ai,mnn, on
rom the surrounding forests, these voranin' Tu,
nterloPerS, and at later day in frcightipp mill
nem win the products Of the fertile dnmaIH c,u
nus conquered from the wilderness! -,
HdVe we not railroads, constructed at n
ast expense OF capital and labor to supersede trac
ur less costly and less available turnpike roads
'e.nseNes N s vast Improvement on the common tioh
itb their nonJorons "en -ahd locomotives. up
u" 'neI Ponuerous trains, to displace the
IA hn-
ow many exnress r;J".oy& 30 Tue same functions! Hot
cen displaced by the locomotive. How monv Mr.
Epress trains has the telegraph made unneces. OF
Hy! For 'he feeble and Intellectual light for delp
erly shed upon US by the aid of tallow and tai;
erds Of valuable aSu,aTs obstruction OF vast Sine
Id southern prarles, aud at the price of ex- Hot
eme physical suffering in inclement seas. we T
ha6 auh tod
nau Suos''u'eo, tnroug1 the joint efforts goin
"a The coni,;,no,n u isoor, Tue spiendors of undt
om the bowels of the harmless EARTH" Ifbe OF
itles performed by the fingers of our grand. g
others at their spinning wheels, are now eye.
'ted, with Immensely increased productive Dc"
,ss' oy the iron fingers of the spinning iennv sire
ne days OF carding wool and cotton by hand M
e aimo't orgotten--though the cards were the
age oy machinery even before that mode of roo
'ng them had ceased-while the tolls of The ~
Ina,ioom nave been superseded by looms oper. carr
ed by steam. j.
= " we have machines for making bricks and Muir
1lsi for saving and planning boards; for ma. RicI
ug pms tor making clocks and for pegging 80.
O's machines for sewing shirts and for most 'p''
"el aglnabie purposes and, notwthstand. @,
: tue resistance with which tie in,roduction ~
most of them was mel bv ,boso ''to a.o ders
70 De inIurousy affected thereby, these won vigo
~. .ho;. nave proceeded steadily, full Shor
ing ihelr faisalon in promoting The comtort wbi,
- enjoylaen.s oi mankind; while the obec- o.na
zen long IN finding other employment In and
ed, many Of the maligned inventions ana ~, IN urge
ovements IN the arts. have created new oecn. hoe.
tlons for the industrious and skiful. TaLo
one striking example that of the operators We
'he magnetic telegraph; and as another thai amp
our friends, the reporters for the public press Il
me. oi whom am happy to see here. who all
1e tne existence Of their profession to i'm. .en
ovements In the art Of nrint;n" y yv. in insta
oula become OF them were we to 90 back to comp
: and Gn,;sps ana rude presses Of Lauren six
oro ''i''0''s :" use only four centuries Tint