Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-12-10
Dignity Of Labor.

1t would seem that emnlovmen, frcu
the morning OF creation, when God Him.
self worked ard rested, and when Adam
was commanded 10 till the soil and sub.
due the animals, implies peculiar dig.
nifty and honor. The Maker of worlds
blesses labor. 1t is apostolic, il is Christ.
like, II is GOd-like to work. No system
of education is complete that does not
harden the hand aud toughen the muscle.
while II develops the intellect and en-.
larges the heart. The religion that
yhows nothing but pale cheeks. and Ill
ly-white fingers, is not the religion of
the Bible. Highways and hedges are
better sanctuaries for an acceptable SER
vice, than studios, cloisters, and cells,
scars and knots on the hands are more
honorable thai rings and gloves. Bronze
out OF The sunbeams is moIe beautiful
on the face than rouge out of the shops.
Only the worker attains the true symme-
try, strength and glory of manhood or
womanhood. Genius itself falters in n
conflict with a6o", Industry has tho
ing elld OF the lever that moves public
opinion, parties, congresses and thrones.
IL was men with brown faces aud sinewy
arms that built the pyramids on Egypt's
plains, reared the temple on Mount Mo-
riah, and walled the Holy CITY with ad.
amant, circled an Asiatic empire with
impenetraLle walls OF garnite, put arm
In arm the old aud new world as whis-
pering mother aud daughter, spanned
the American continent with thorough
fare of iron from sea to sea, cut a acanal
Tor steamers across the dos .rt sands
where the Iraelites wandered forty
years it is men with sun-burnt features
and nerves of steel that to-day whiten
the worlds wide waters with the sails of
commerce, navigate. ali rivers, explore
all lands, and subdue the earth as God
at first commanded. An idle man, how
ever white, and soft, and smart, is not
Gods man--4hraader Clark.
The Springfield Republican takes this
hopeful view of the European situation
The really great feature of this war, that,
which, even more than its grand movement of
victory on victory, will make it proudly his
toric, is that ii is successful and final blow to
the spirit of military glory and military ag-
greasion in Europe, and puts an end both to
the motive and the necessity for the mainten-
ance of large standing armies. The efforts of
the best disposed governments Of Europe, as
of her liberal popular clements, for the las,
generation, have been TO extend and enforce
the policy of disarmament. For this is not only
the first step toward peace, but the great guar
anty of it. More than this, il is the first and
great step toward the liberalization of the
governments and the enfranehisement of the
peoples. France, through its imperialism as
well rs by its Inheritance of the popular IN
stincts for military glory and military con-
quest, almost alone held out against this re-
form of peace and the people. She menaced
Europe with her military preparations and
military ambitions and this war is, is in gen.
eral terms, but the grand duel Of the old bar
barrie military nation ana the modern civiliZ-
ed peace natiOn-the conflict of imperialism
and the people. French defeat is the extin,
guishmcnt of the old order; German triumph
is the victory of the new. The few may not
see it, or readily yield TO il on either side; but
it is the instinct, the assurance of the many
and so soon as tue smoke of battle clears O,
way, and pride and politics permit peace,
the new order will rapidly creep over all the
nations OF Europe. even into France itself,
She may fume and threaten and dream of re-
vcnge, but the days of her worship of military
glory are past. She must and she will begin
the construction of new greatness an a new
glory, based not upon standing armies, or q
blazon, barren show of imperialism, but on
the freedom and education of the people, and
the enlargement, through that freedom and
education, Of all the elements Of her wealth
and prosperity,