The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-12-21
VER FALLS PIERCE COUNTY, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, .

Voices" The peasautry of England. are
forgetiul oftheir troubled lives in genial
Joy OF the New Year holidays, in the
May-day festival of blossoming Spring,
and in the hilarity of their Autumn jubi
/ lees.
But with us such JOYOUS days are scarce
~ known. The eagerness to attain some
material ends, to distance others in the
race for something we know not of,
makes us almost forget we are social be-
ines. The sparkling days of Christmas
and New \ ears fail to awaken us from
I the monotonous routine of our daily toll.
/ The harvest icstivals.rs forgotten, and
scarcely does our patri' Sin in the glad
some days of summer, have power to stir
us up to celebrate the hcroism of our an.
/ cestors. We havo to learn that we must
be sociabe. Then how meet it is that
ON these long winter evenings, the cares
/ OF business should DO suspended-tho
troubles of ife forgotten, and we meet
to nosr:sh and apparel our better sell
vcs.
But beneficial as these meetings are as
q means of social improvement, they
are, II possible, far more important in the
attainment of other and nobler objects.
We come together here, FOR "mutua i'm
provcment in knowledge, and tho power
Of expressing it," We come *
| Although engaged in different pursuits
IN lifc yet Nc haya5 common interests,
ard common objects of thought. Each
can contribute to the general stock, his
own opinions, thoughts and experiences
and receive III return all tho truths the
others may make known. Even more,
each evening we leave the Club Room
with p higher arprec alton of life, the OBJ
.jccts that may be accomplished-the ends
attained. While we exert ourselves to
build up tbs Society, it exerts reflex
influence upon uS, and stimulates and in
cites us to more determined action
4 association, is the great agent that is
working wonders III the world. In Lit
crature Art, and Po!i;ics-in every de-
partment o. science and society, assoca-
tons are accomplishing unhoped for and
undrcametl Of results. Every great and
successful movement among men is ar
mored with organzatlOn. This agent
has rent the s,eptre from t g monarchs
of tile Old World, and rcyolut;onzod the
government of nations. Caesar fell be-
ncath the awful dagger Of organized con
spiracy. This great agent is doing no
less in our day aud county. 1t is organ
zation that ''uuiils our railroads; works
our mines; settles oar erritories;" and is
guiding tie dcstil $ Of this nation 1t
is the great ally OF progress in ;h1 world.
Union is strength" is its motto, and
adol t'ng tbs, it concentrates the power
Of md yluas, and then when their eff
orts have = common object, nothing can
withstand their power. AS the lens col
locts the rays Of the sun to f6cus and
thus produces burning centre, so the eff
orts of men, when associated, produce re-
suits which without such concentration
would be utter Y unattainabie. What ev-
or system it touches it galyanizes into
new Ito-what ever measure it adyocates
it pushes on to glorious results.
Now it may not seem in accordance
with the past action and present prosl ects
of this Association, to contemplate such
great results a, these. Knight, perhaps
moe NJ propriatel y, 81 oak Of ends prob
able of attainment. Yet it is well to place
our standard high. Even we with the
proper and possible effort, have glori-
Gus future. tits not in numbers that we
rely; but in the wondrous potency of
earnestness and energy. Our numbers
IRE few, and our means limited; yet if
the advantages we have aro properly
made use Of, the talents we possess bro't
into earnest action. our present, compared
with our future, will be hut as the fckea-
ing and uncertain ray Of Il dIi lg twilight
to the living blaze of a MONDAY SUM-
To lie SURE, what we do, We do privately,
the community takes no note Of cur nc
ton; but this matters nothing, we are
not dcsirous "to be seen OF mon, we
seek our own individual improvement.
I may remark, perhaps, without osten-
tation, that the world rarely ever takes
notice or knows anything Of those men
and institutions who are doing most for
it. The crowd pass by the shop Of the
humble mechanic who by tireiess and un-
rewarded labor, is ascerta:n5 facts that
shall bless the world to the end Of time
they pass the study OF the scholar, who
is thinking thoughts that when uttered
will startie world, and burn incense to
some popular ido whose breath shall die
upon the passing wind. "Lutbef's theses
nailed upon the door Of a convent made
no nose, yet a thousand cannons could
not do half the execution"
TIE English literature was greatly pol
ishei and cultured by the efforts of few
of the men of London who were organi-
zed in the form of a secret club, for the
purpose, | suppose, of mutual improve
mont in knowledge, and the power of ex-
pressing it," BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, and
n few of his compeers, organized the
"FRASKLIN CLUE" in the Quaker City,
and the action of that Club exercised
potent Influence in building up, shaping,
aud maintaining many of the glorious
institutions of which that metropolis now
INooctS