New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-29

and stately cities and whai mS XXX desert
onasss 10 6e Jungle and foul, unwhOlesome ueseIt;
tSooI,, Co1sIder how, even IN the meanest sOIt OF
iabnr The whole soul of man Is com POseu intO AI
20 eaI harmony the instant he sets himself 10 WORK!
GI Ieal 5rn sorrow RemOrse. Indignation, De
snojr itself all these like hell-dOgs DeleagueIng te
spni of the poor day-wOrker' as OF every man bnI
ohoyds vyitb free valOr against his task, and all
Ioos are sfilled all these shrink muTmuring far on
ITO their caves The man IS now man. The
blessed glow of Labor in him. Is 1t not as purifying
fire. wherein all poison Is burnt up ana OF sour smoke
itself there is made bright, blessed hameF
Show me a people energeticaly busy, heaylng,
struggling, all shoulders at the wheel their hearts
pulsng. every muscle swelling with mans energy
and will | show YOU people Of whom great gOo9
is already predicable-tO whom all manner OF goo o
n vet certain if their energy endure. By very
working they will learn; they have, Ant'ens-lIhSSl
their feet on Mother Fact how can they b" learn
Our own great CLAIMING had, some years
earlier set forth the same general truth-that
Of the benefcence of Labor as groundwork
of human education and disciplme-in terms
somewhat less vigorous but no less explicit
and positive than those Of the British essaylst
Tie says
al do not expect series Of improvements by which
ihe abOror is DO released from his daily work sui
1Ore have desire TO dismiss him from his work
hop aud fam-to take the spade and AK from his
and, and TO make his life a long holiday. | have
nth in labor; and / the goodness of God in
Iacng MS i'm a world where labor alone can keep us
live j would not change, If / could, our own sub,
sctOn to physical laws, our exposure to hunger and
material world would not if could, so temper the
clements that they should infuse into only CRATE
al sensatiOns-that they should make vegetation 80
,Nuborant to anticipate every want, ana the NM
rails so ductile as to offer no resistance 10 our
strength and skill. Such world would make con
femptiDle race. Man owes his GROWTH MS energy
shelly 10 the striving of the will-that conflict
with difficulty which we call Effort Easy Pleasant
ernTk docs not make robust mnds-dOes not give
men consciousness of their powers-dOes not Tram
them TO endurance, to perseverance, 10 steady loice
Of wil-that force without which all other acqusl-
tions avail nothing. Manual labor IS a school. IN
which men are placed to get energy OF purpose ana
sIaracter-a vastly more important endowment IMAM
an the learning of all other schools. They are
placed indeed under hard masteTs-physlc suffer-
iugs and wantS-the power of fearful clements ana
the vcisstudes of all human things; but these stern
teachers do a work which no compassionate maui,
GENT friend could do for us; and true wisdom VIII
hless Providence for their sharp ministry i nave
great faith in hard work. The material world does
nnoh for the mind by its beauty and order; |
out it does much more 1Or our minus 10y, !no
lain If iufcts-by its obstinate resistance, which
.othng but patient toll can OvercOme-by IFS vast |
forces which nothing but unTemtng skill and effort
can turn to our use-by its perils which demand CON
tinual vigilance and by It's tendency to decay pc
Eeye that difficulties are important TO the hu-
man mind than what we call asSlStances Nofk we !
an must if we mean to bring out and perfect our |
nature Even if we do not work with the hanus we
must undergo equivalent toll IN some other dlTecuOh
No business or stIay M zen Deecf and he Will is
worthy of man, In science, he who does not crap
pie with hard guestiOns-whO does not concentrate
his whole intellect in vigorous attenuon|whO doeSS
- ~
never attain to meutal force"
Ross Browne, summing up his observations |
made during a recent tour of the Holy Land
remarks that he saw in all that country but
one man doing any thing: he was falling off
the roof of house. Need it be explained that |
Palestine is under the sway of race and rule |
that reject the idea of Protection to Home In |
lustry, holding it condemned by the precepts |
of that Koran which is their Bible? Labor is |
amazingly cheap there - cheap as in the |
day when each of the labOrers in the vine
ward received a penny for his days |
wages, whether he had worked twelve hours |
OF but one--yet barely few of the very rudest
manufactures are still prosecuted, and these are
palpably feeble and declining, with the great
body of the people impoverished, wretched'
despairing. Well may they be so under
a government which Gas a recent writer
from COnstantinOple reports charges an
excise duty of treIre per cent. on ship
timber cut from Turkish forests, and an
irpost of but eight per cent. on like timber I'M
ported from a foreign land. No plunderlng |
the masses here for the profit of monopohsts'
and "cotton-lords :" yet the wild Bedouin OF the |
desert levies at will OH the wretched tiller OF |
the soil the local tax-collectOr SEXES most OF |
what remains; and the hapless cultlvator Is
driven in the Spring to the usurer, OF whom |
he borrows. at twenty-five to fifty per cent. |
the means of reseedng his unfertilized fields, |
and thus beginning anew his dreary, hopeless !
round of famished toll and vexatiOus care.
The Hon. Robert Dale Owen, who spent sew
eral wears at Naples as Minister of the United |
States, declares the LazzarOni of that great
city uniustly stigmatized as inveterate, willful
idlers; he having found them always accepting !
with alacrity any job that was offered them
and that they knew how to do. They were |
habitually idle, simply because they could get |
no work Let us suppose that the new King !
dom of Italy was ruled by some great genus |
like Car Peter OF Napoleon l.; can you believe
that he would not find or make some way OF
setting these idle hundreds of thousands at
work that he would be withheld from at
tempting it by some college pedant or blear-
eyed bOOk-wOrm, who should magisterially adj
mOnish him that Governments have properly
nothing to do with Industry or Commerce
that the extent of their legitimate function is
to keep you from breaking each others heads
or picking each others pOckets-that they
transcend their sphere whenever they NEEDLE
with Production, and seek to make two blades
of grass flourish where but one has hitherto
been grown7 Who does not see that to set
those thousands at wOrk-tO make them busy,
useful, thrifty-to prOffer them ample, remu-
nerative, diversified employment-is to elevate
them morally as well as physically-tO increase
the wealth and strength of the kingdom or
state-nay, more: to elevate the standard Of
human nature and increase the sum of human