The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-12-21
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DEECHER ON MANUAL LABOR.
Plain Talk with n General Appli.
cation.

bEECAAslG ON MAN UAl IADOhI
Plain Talk with n General AppIi.
cation.
From Moaddy's Word.
Mr.. Bccchcr, last evening, took five
verses, from the 9TH to the 18th, Of the I'd
chapter Of ThGssOlOniHns for his text, and
delivered an address therelrOm on manual
labor After citing various other passa.
yes, showing that the Apostles had com.
manded work with the h0ndsRs necessary
aud honorable, and this had been tho C4sG
with our fathers. in this country; but lie
| (Alr. BcCCher) was sorry TO sec that the
tendency Of the age wis to DRIFT away
from this, and to look down upon all man.
uul labor with contempt, and there was
too much desire on the part of yOungmcn
to get rich too rapidly and without giving
the necessary equivalent Of labor, and Il
steady current OF young men was setting
in to the large cities from the country and
from the country towns, all bent upon
the acquisition OF wealth without manual
labor. They crowd the professions. Pro.
lcssiOn0l men arc drugs on the mar
kct There was almost one doctor for
every sick man, and the law is so tull That
If you distributed the business there
would not be one fec to each lawyer, and
so half OF them have 10 become mere
commercial agents; and all this time the
country needs labor, and also needs cdu.
Gated mechanics. Then, too, there is n
feeling in the community among parents
that their sons would be degraded by en-.
bracing any mechanical pursuit, and their
sons they will not tan their faces on the
farm, hr tar their fingers on the ship, or
harden their muscles ut the forge. lie
then drew n picture Of the horror Of II res
pcctablc parent ut finding that his boy
wished to become Il mAChiniSt, and the
dislain Of the boys mother when inform
cd of this choice, and the father resolves
that il will not do to directly oppose tho
boys wishes, but resolves that he will go
to Europe and take that boy with him,
md so lie grows up and gets TO be 30 or
40 years old, and has dabblCd little in
law and little in banking, and the father
dies and the estate does not turn out rs
well as was expected, and the boys have
to shit for themselves and then where
will this hoy go? "Why," said Mr..
I3eccher, with emphasis, "hc will go
straight to'thc devil. The tnthcr-with the
best Ol intcntiOns-has lost his boy which,
| if he had allowed him to follow. his nNtu-
raj bent, he would have saved him. This
was not IN ovcrdrNwn picture, fOrpausing
and looking nj the congregational you
know it is yourselves (Gughter) and put
it to you il some OF you do not feel GX-
actly like this with regard to manual III
Dor" Mr.. BGcchCr paid MI eloquent trib'
ute to New England thrift and industry,
and said that it was owing to the nccCSSi'
ty which they were under Of working
lard for bare subsistence. They could
not get living ont OF those barren rocks
without work. Put an casy-going people
in New England and they would starvc,
and SO wherever you went il there WAS u
bank to be run or railroad built, nine
times out OF ten there was Yankee i'll IT,
No other part of the community are so
much cursed or so universally blamed.
they are tho Jews Of America. All over
the world mCn'hatc the Jews, and all
over the world Jews persGvcrc in spite Of
persecution. They build themselves up,
that grand old race, and bid fair to carry
the politics OF the world with them, and
the Yankee is the jew the Western
Continent; they have been brought up to
work, to put the whole Of their manhood
into their business, and you see the pro.
duct Of il, Mr.. BGcChGr, in conclusion,
earnestly bcsought his hearers II they val
ued the future Of their children, to bring
them up to some trade which should
make them independent and scli.rClNnt
under any adverse circumstances.