Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-28

LORD BROUGHAM ON w oRK-1he London
Times reports carefully the following briei
| speech of Lord Brougham, delivered recently
in Bradford, Eng, at meeting of the Nation
al Association for the promotion of Social Sci
snce. The speech is such an one as cannot be
heard or read anywhere without profit; and
he being himself an almost unequalled work.
er, and the constant benefactor of working
people, had right to deliver it with the tone
of zone having authority p
Lord Brougham (who had only few min
utes before entered the hall, having just come
from Sheffield, whittier he had gone to attend
a meeting) was received with loud demonstra-
| tons of applause. He could not address the
working men of Bradford without expressing,
in common with those who had gone before
him, the great admiration he felt at the good
conduct they had exhibited. But it was al
ways more useful to point out defects than to
indulge in panegyric (hear, hear, and he
would take the liberty to advert to one defect
which, in common with all working-men, the
operatives of Bradford were chargeable with.
That defect was, that they did not sufficiently
estimate the absolute necessity OF provident
and prudent conduct. The particular kind of
improvidence he was going to specify might
be called comparatively trlfing, and it was
very easily remedied. 1t was not that they
did not sufficiently reflect that they were not
entitled to any relaxation or amusement what
ever till after their days work was done-that
they were not entitled to take even the reaxa-
ton of reading and instructing themselves till
after they had finished their days work, and
finished it well (cheers j for the very highest
duty and interest was to follow their regular
callings, and SO secure their independence.
No. h.,
man himself CHEERS and that was the rule
he had always followed. (Hear.) He never
counted any one hour or minute as his own,
or considered hmselfentitled to relaxation even
in the way OF instruction, out of the line of the
profession to which he belonged, till his days
work was ompleted-honestly and accurately
done. he had been a working man all his life,
and what was more, he lived all his life on wages
(cheers and laughter) !; for it so happened that
he never spent one halfpenny OF any little
property he enjoyed, or of any sum that
might have come to him. He had always
lived by the sweat Of his brow. Cheers
Another subject to which he would refer was
the kind of relaxation in which the working
classes should indulge, (Hear) He entirely
agreed with what had been said on the subject
of reading. 1t was great misfortune that at
one time there had been so large an issue OF
inferior works of fancy and imagination. He
did not at all object to works of fancy. The
moral was, that all work and no play makes
Jack dull boy ; so, if reading was all hard
reading, unrelieved by anything that was light
and fanciful, the mental stomach would not
digest well (Laughter.) He therefore did
not object to works of fiction, but to those
that were not Of the purest kind-to novels of
light kind, full Of extravagant descriptions,
of impossible scenes and sickly sentiment, and
MI Of that
CURED among men and women in this world
(Hear, hear But there had been great i'm
provcment of late years few of these trashy
novels were now circulating, and there were
many excellent works of fancy that might be
productive fmuch good. Hear, hear.) Now,
when he had been working man all his life,
and was SO now, it might be said that he
should at his time of liie-and he was good
deal over 30 years of age (great laughter)-
take little rest, and that he had earned a title
to a little rspose. (Cheers.) But it had been
SAID by the great Christian poet Cowper-
"A man unOccupied is not at rest
mind quite vacant is mind distrest.'
(Cheers.) And he had resolved that so long
as Providence allowed him to retain his facul
ties he would not fall under the description Of
imam unoccupied," or of mind "quite va
cant (Cheers.) He would continue. as fan
i as he was able, to live ''life of labour." to
which he had SO long been accustomed
| (Cheers.) They had heard of contemplated
political changes but on that point he would
not enter further than to say that such changes
might possibly be improvements, but that they
ought to be adopted only after much fore
thought and circumspection, and they ought
to be moderate in their substance Hear
hear.) And this he would most emphaticaIly
say, that it was the bounden duty of all O
every class, and of no class more than thu
working class, to be content in the meantim,
with things as they were, and not to raise up .
hand or little finger to alter the law by
force. (Cheers.w