The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-09-30

industrial and intellectual Developments
would be extremely limited and unbal-
snced. On the contrary, labor in the di-
versity of human pursuits, Is stimulated
in each, prompts useful inventions, and
rounds out in symmetrical proportions
the powers of nation. All history dem
onstrates that labor has been the most
thorough educator and civilizer of, man
kind d @ htaa s819l9-
Farming with all the aid of machinery
and the light Of science, is laborious
calling. It is not all poetry, as some i'm
agine who know nothing of It's cares and
tolls. Neither is it all drudgery. as some
view it, who in their operations have new
er raised it above servile employment, nor
contemplated the dignity of its true pc
sition.
Under the great law of Compensation,
every department of industry has its pc
culiar labors and rewards Effort-hon-
est, devoted and perseyering-is every
where the price of excellence, and they
who cannot afford to pay it, must not
wonder at their failure of success.
Labor is absolutely necessary to creste
value All the wealth from Cresus to
the Rothchilds and Astor, inclusive, and
and all the eloqnence from Demosthenes
and Cicero to Chatham and Burke and
Webster, could not, without labor, feed
and clothe single person could not pro-
duce loaf of bread, II hat, shoe, or a
dress. Your choice garments and adorn
ings, and your tables at this festival, la
den with luxuries from every quarter of
the Globe, are all the creations of manual
labor t @
Labor--intelligent free labor is the
life of the World, and the glory of all
ages Suspend it but single year and
the whole Earth would be paralyzed, and
famine, death and desolation would ensue
Multiply this term by one hundred, and
what language cSn adequately describe
the ruinous result. Stay all civilized la
Dor for a century, and the reign of univer-
sal barbarism would be established Be
hold the cultivated fields relapsed into
wilderness, and husbandry no more, all
the cities desolated waste. Proud Agri-
culture, Manufactures and Commerce sunk
into oblivion. No productions, no mar
kets, no shipping, no institutions educa-
tional, charitable or religious-no steam
or electro magnetic forces mo printing
press !; no free governments !; no protec-
ton to individual rights under enlight
ened law, but ignorance, superstition,
crime, and despotism, would shroud the
world in darkness
We little think, how all the happiness
and advancement of mankind, depend, un-
der God, upon educate labor. But for
this, the earth to-day would contain little
else than wild beasts, and a reduced pop
ulation of savages.
Notwithstanding all this, there are men
and women who think manual labor vul-
gar. and that it disqualifes for the higher
circles of responsibility. Such cherish
the old notion that hand-work and brain
work, in the same person, are incompati-
BILE. The pleasure going throng, the but
terfies of fashion, mere consumers, who
are lovers of selfish amusements more than
lovers of industrial prosperity, speak with
disdain of the "laboring classes"
producers who support the world. This
sentiment is quite too prevalent, even here,
where the laborels are lords of the soil.
Formerly, under the feudal system, the
ownership Of the land being hereditary
in few, the agricultural labor of Europe
was performed by a degraded class, and
was called "menial service" Slavery in
our own country has also brought reproach
| upon manual labor.
Prejudices against the responsibility of
such labor have thus originated amid
wrong and oppression, when your noble
pursuits were in the hands of the low and
the vile, and not as here, performed by
the sovereigns of the land. Away then
with the odious notion, that one class is to
serve and another to be served, that some
are born with crowns on their heads and
others with chains on their limbs, and
that a part come into the world all booted
and spurred 10 ride, and others all saddled
and bridled to be ridden H
| Our illustrious Revolutionary ancestors
on their original national seal, proclaimed
to the world new order or series of the
ages. Their motto was, "Noeus Ordo Sec
toruna-"denoting that new order of
things had commenced in the Western
Hemisphere. Under this "new order of
the ages - this Government founded upon
the principles of Liberty and Equal
Rights, and dependent upon the intelli-
gence, industry and virtue of all, recog-
nizing Free Labor as the corner stone of
the Social State-it is the imperative duty
of every American citizen to uphold and
/ vindicate its honor, and establish pub
lie sentiment for its dignity IN accordance
with the memorable equality of our laws.
Contempt for useful labor is OF Pagan
origin-is barbarian. Ages antecedent to
the Mosaic period, Heathen mythology
represented the Sovereign Deity as dwell
ing in awful majesty and repose above
too exalted for sympathy or action, dis
daining labor, and imposing upon subor-
. dinates the ignoble duty of creating and
controlling worlds. Moses rising to the
sublimity of aspiritual Creator, and look
ing down with abhorance upon idoiatry,