The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-02-02


wards become attractive an aim of para
mount importance, because by this means
alone can industrial products (wealth) be-
come so abundant and universally dltfused
that want and destitution, as well present
as prospective, shall be entirely driven
out of the world Our last number was
devoted to the brief exposition Of two
special incentives 10 industry, namely,
emulation, or the spirit of rivalry, and
sympathy, or attachment to esteemed as
sociates, these being in our enumeration
the second and third agencies by which
attraction may be either created or lnten-
sifed. They are also agencies Of capital
especially the third, which
having for its basis the sympathetic COM
munion OF friend with friend in all the
various affectional relations, Is q pirotGL
condition of attraction, that is, a central
and cardinal one, in the absence of which
all the other higher incentives can be
made to act but very feebly, If at all. 1t
is also very important that emulation and
should be made to act simulta-
neously and in concert, since it Is only
when their influence is thus combined
that they act with their greatest energy.
And by way of explanation take occa-
sion to say here, though fearing that the
remark may not be universally apprecia-
ted, that, in the system of Universal An
alogy, (the key which viii in due time un-
lock all the mysteries of the universe), these
two stimulants correspond to accords and
dissonances in music, the artistic blend
ing of which is indispensable to the ut
most perfection of harmony.
". The next or fourth condition of
attractive industry to which attention is
invited is, that rs dccOmpdIliBeIltS and
surroundings be not only pied for their
purposes, bit be also graceful and beaUtl-
titi3
Mans instructive love of beauty, and
the pleasure which attends its legitimate
qualification, should never be lost sight of
in the organization of labor. This senti-
ment demands that the instruments and
apparatus of industry, its tools and ma
chimes, besides being convenient and well
adapted to their intended uses, shall be
also graceful and elegant, and, as far as
practicable, be even ornamented and en-
bellished, and that the co-operators, being
distributed into industrial groups, be at
tired in appropriate and tasteful costumes
and uniforms Those animals also, such
as oxen and horses, which man makes his
assistants in industry, besides being well
fed and humanelY treated, should be
equipped and caparisoned with the same
regard to elegance and beauty as Is paid
to the other auxiliaries with which his
work is associated. Those labors in which
large numbers participate may, moreover,
be properly enlivened with music and a
display of ensigns and banners, and ac-
companied with such other appliances and
ceremonies as are best adapted to klndle
animation and enthusiasm.
The names of eonquering military chief
tains shine brightest on the historic page,
because, during the ages Of imperfection
and social discord through which human
ity has hitherto been passing, wholesale
murder has been regarded as the function
In which it was most glorious to excel
Wherefore ambition, directing its view to
the means of attaining the highest and
most enduring honors, has always been
tempted by the strongest motives to dis
cover by what means the destructive agen-
cies of war could be invested with all pos
sible elements Of efficiency and power, and
has found that appropriate and graceful
uniforms, glittering armor, gilded and pic
tured standards and animatIng music, al
aid in promoting the sanguinary purposes
j for which armies are organized The ex.
ample is eminently instructive, if mer
will only turn it to proper account. We
NAV be sure that similar means, applied
/ to groups and companies engaged IN use
I full production, will be no less influential
and will stimulate no less efhcaciously t
| great industrial achievements and sucl
means will be applied, in the interest o
| the laborer and with a view to his benefit
when the gifted and the prosperous rec
oenize their obligations to their weake
fellow men and become as desirous to d.
GOOD to their interiors in fortune and ca
pacity as they have hitherto been to TAX
advantage Of them by pillage, extOrtion
fraud and spoiation. But so long as
state of war ftly typifes the rapacity wit
which the more fortunate classes pre-
upon those beneath them, and the free
booter of the stock exchange and th
counting house spoliates industry as effeC
tually and as cruelty as ever did the mil
tary marauder, so long will honest labc
be despised, and so long Will the haT
toiling masses, whose lives are spent
useful work. be the Pariahs of society
While the relations of labor TO caplt'
continue such as they now are, the fortr
nate classes will do nothing TO dignity L
Dor, or 10 lift it above its present leve
! whatever barren compliments they ms
pay it as a requital for the profit thG
have made or hope to make by preyiI
upon its earnings. But they too are d
victims of temptation,-let u5 Judge
! men charitably.
: Y. a fifth incentive. to industry "
4 be found in o SyStematized distribution
decorations and honorary distinctions,
tshich such eO-operatOrS and groups
hare performed their respeetiUe t1mctlo
: Reith 1re-emillsRt ability and success m
z BE- hoiored according 10 their Ud,IOus Z
0gceS Of merit
Nature has implanted in the hum
> breast an ardent craving for badges OF s
= perioritv and pre-eminence, and the mi
tarv organization, in its distinctions
rink and corresponding epaulettes andoi
= er insignia Of honor, has had its efhcien
uromoted scarcely, if at all, less than
Of the stimulating forces previously specih
Nor has the use of such agencies been cC
70 fined to the art Of war; witness the rel
liza of free masonry and other similar SO
a eties. and especially the escutcheons o
= armorial trappings, which, in the pal
days of chiyalry, the true knight wo
ra die rather than permit 10 be stained W
dishonor. Yet the influence Of these ag
cies is usually marred by the VICIOUS
compartments with which almost eve
thing in our. present civilization IS s
rounded, for 1T is the rnle rather than
exception that favoritism or the power
money gets precedence IN honorary
: tinctiops over substantial merit.
" The last two incentives to industry,
L ing the fourth and fifth OF our enumt
ton, belong to that sphere of art VIZ
embraces the ornamentation and emI
ishment by man Of bis material Ell
ronment, and the charming Of his ssI
by physical beauty. The Importance
h the beautiful, not only to industrial
qress, but more especially perhaps to
development Of the social and spiritual
ture Of man, it il not easy TO exagger
So far from the beautiful, IN the tut
be being subordinate to the useful, the
to viii be that the useful will be esteel
such only as it ministers to and prod
- beauty in other words. the useful wll
absorbed by the beautiful. The I'm
tance which nature attaches to 1t IS sh
- not oDly IN the starTIy heavens and the