Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-10-10
HYDE PARK VERMONT. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1885,

you say one was lucky ? Strictly speak
ing, there is no such thing as luck in the
! world. The true reason is. one used his
brains in his work. the other hardly knew
he had such an article the first loved
his work and was coI.tented with it.
and that labor that receives fair share
of mind will always afford the highest
kind of enjoyment the other despised
his work, longed to "go West" and was
happy, never
Why should the farmer seek for any.
thing outside of his vocation ? His oc.
cupation gives him full play for taste, i'm
aglnation aud inventive genius, so that
the full rounded manhood Of life ought to
characterize him as well as the statesmen.
Look about you in any business of life
aud the same law prevails. Why has
Stewart, the merchant prince of New
York, who started in life poor so far out
stripped all the other commercial! men of
that great city? Not surely because he
has been more lucky, but because he has
made his business of higher order, has
studied the laws of finance and of trade,
has learned the philosophy of great events
both in Europe and America and their eff.
fects upon the commerce of the world, has
made the legislation Of the old and new
worlds, as it bears upon trade, a study,
aud thus while accumulating his millions,
, has become at the same time a statesman
lifted for Senate Halls or Exchequr Bu-
reaus. Elihu Burritt learned philosophy
in shoeing horses, and Hugh Miller in a
stone quarry unfosded the great plan Of
creation and demonstrated the truths Of
natural religion. Woe, to the man who
is slave to his work and whose work is
barren of MUD. This is the degradation
{ of the operatives in the English workshops
who can never hope to rise above the class
, in which they were born and are immov
ably hcdged in by society.
The especial glory of our form of gov
ernment and that which gives it life, anG
s we. trust perpetual life, is that it open
our workshops and farms and lets out ou>
workmen, that they may become more men
| Out Of their work than in it,-that the,
rlay grow in society aud In citizenship =
o may aspire to dispense patronage as wei
t as yield it,-tnay govern as well as obey
and so our workmen may become thinker
G as well as workers. The mechanic saving
/. planning aud shaping his wood into som
= useful or ornamental article Of Household
o furniture, justly wins our admiration 70
t this mental power,-this adjustment o
d parts and proportions to profitable uses
s indicates both mind and'manhood in him
| Our Republican form of Government i,
all its relations to the laboring class act
t as most powerful incentive to ambition
1 Accidental rank or wealth are nothing
= brains are the only requisite of success
the laborcr is better paid and better fed
d here, than in any other land on the earth
. How the foreigner. who at home Wa
{ doomed to toll all the long weary years 0
= his existancc, without hope in the world,
e becomes a citizen. wealthy intelligent an,
e brave almost the moment he tOuche
! American shores-how he finds opcnin
e up before him new world of ambition, s
s that the very opportunity calls out al
Y the powers of his mind and tunes all tn
Q music of his soul, to the rewards and tn
f. harmoneS of a more glorious future.
G Give the freedman of the south fe,
: acres of your public domain-givc hir
;; citizenship-give him Il hope in the worl
?. and then every strong blow that hi
}, stout arm strikes against the entrcnch
h ments OF the receding forest, will be bu
!. a loud knock on the door of that future
d which be shall break open and take u
n the wife of his youth and his childre
e with him, to seat made high, made nc
S BILE and made honorable through his love
q his valor and his devotion.
g The world moves-wc are no longe
: chained down to the Magma Charta of ar
tiquity. Rights are coming to be regard
o as inherent - no divinity hedges abou
,f power, or accident enobles Ounce.
q Warfare, social and political, is the ne
v dispcnsation-the very arches of tn
m heavens are over hung with the porten
ic of conflict aud under the banners Of pr
ID gress. the laboring class must fight f
I'd their Independence and conquer the
n. their peace, their march is qutckstt
ns not dtrge--they must be identified VIII
II the great questions Of the day, for ii {
,r have vital interest at stake in every soci
4. and political agitation that disturbs Il
he g,eat sea of time-and whether it be
IS, moving machine or constitution tn
,s must be criticized, they MUST SIT IN JUD
,rt MENT and award upon it, in the light
la. reason of truth and of justice.
.at That there is law of progress in I
Gle affairs of mankind, the worker is bou
er, to know and to obey, what moots 1t tn
lie the farmer can plow 10 spring time q
his harvest in fall time--if this be all OF
,ut to him. if he feels that to do this wo
ise precisely at the time and in the mani
rst his flther before him did, is to bea Il
en-. mer, and that the improvements OF M
nts ern science arc to be discarded as hereC
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