Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-10-10

them by individuals End ~ vovarngant. aga,us'
our own !.utioa even, which we com.
monty .ega-l as political event, was no
more than the working out of great labor
questions and the vindicatiou of great
lab,r rights. More than twenty laws of
Parliament either prohibited or restricted
some kiuds of labor in the Colonies the
use of water-power, the building of forges
and machinery and the manufacture of
hats, were expressly forbidden. Even
Chatham himself in 1910 proclaimed that
the Colonies ought not to be allowed to
manufacture so much as hob-nail -
these were the grievances that first alien
| ated the hearts of the colonists and paved
the way for those political differences that
naturall y arose from such policy. Our
Revolution was only the first step in the
western world towards the elevation of the
laboring class and the emancipation of
labor. ...
The higher class in society have long
ago secured their rights, while the lower
class have long struggles yet before them
ere they can boast perfect MANHOOD
Still we can we'll hope for success -
agitation, discussion, association aud ed
ucation will surely secure the great end
But there are certain natural laws which
the laborer must observe; he must not
attribute to wealth those results which he
may himself control, nor demand of So
ciety what is within his own hands,
From the beginning of the world, the
laboing class have seemed at least to rank
the pursuits Of manual toll higher than
mental labor,--and those thinkers who
seem to do nothing, because they work 81
lently and within, have too often been re
garded as II hespasSerS in the top places o.
society. Now this prejudice oil the work
ing class is wrong; for it is one of the
plainest truths in nature, that, that which
makes man, is MIND, and measure maj
as you will, mind will always stand high
er than muscle-and wo k is Away
loaoer than thought; and in fact the la
boring classes themselves really acknowl
edge this, for among their own class, al
work does not stand upon the same leve
and that work which requires and int
which enters the most brain is the mos
respectable and is the best paid.
This recognition Of the unequal valu
Of work, is based upon Divine and uni
versal law The man who puts the low
est part of man into his work ought t
stand lowest and he who puts the bes
part of man into his work, ought to ant
will stand highest The man that all hi
davs is content to hoe and dig and lift,wil
all his days be at the bottom Of society
because he only brings to his work wha
the OK brings,-and il he can only pul
what the OK pulls which is the better p
If he only puts into his work pounds anc
ounces, he must be content to be aOeighe'
by pounds and ounces. But if he is dis
contented with his fate let him come N,
--qrOaC--set his brains as well as hi
hands. to work, and as suddenly as h
does this, will he quit his lifting as tn
sole business of life and rise in his OWL
and the public estimation. This is tn
greatest objection to slave labor; it i
brainIess--you could not carry industr.
any farther than the Intelligence of th
slave would carry it, and as it is the prim
tive law of slavery, that the slave b
kept in ignorance, it follows that his la
Dor is less productive aud less profitable
and so through every department of labor
, the work that requires the most brains
is the highest A bar of iron is wort
five dollars-madc into steel and then il
. to watch springs, it is worth two hdndre
, and 6fty thousand dollars. 1t is brain
r the last instance that makes it worth NOR
than in the first, and 80 the world regard
i 1t will not do to say, 81 am just a
, good as my nei;sehhor," if | do notbin
but hand work and he ICES head work
he gets pay fOr brains and | for li2scle.
But can farmers put any brains Int
their work? Nobody has more need
' it than they in their work, 1t is nc
. your business to plOw and hoe ard di
s simply;-but while you do'thesc to stud
n the great book Of nature which the FAR
!. opens before you--to seize those electr
g currents which shatter your barns al
G houses and compel them to push forwaI
v your vegetation then the change OF ten
. perature the succession of calms aud storm
d Shall no more bring disaster, but sha
o themselves hurry on the growth of yo'
v grains that one of you that best devt
:. opes his mind, makes the best and Z
II richest farmer, neat and comely building
70 substantial fences, fat oxen aud horse
10 the best breeds of sheep. hearty suppc
" and patronage Of schools. thu use OF
i Dor r-saving machines, to the drudgery tt
ID would otherwise wear ont so much mus
v. these all indicate the intelligent farm
N and if intelligent the happy man. WI
a his neighbor's house is running down,
h stock Starving, his scbool-tax not paid
a wrung out Of him, mark and character
of the lowest order of industry. The d
rv gets rich, has money at interest and pl'
ty Of time for all the rational enjoy me