New-York tribune., 1872-07-05
D IJlABOR REFORM.

IN this city was one of the odfashioned Kind put 's
features seemed fresh and interesting TO the peopo
though they were the original Inventions OF anunuo
minds brought out for the first time In the ciysn Ills
tory. Bell ringing and national saules openeo INC '
there was morning concert and competitive military
drill on the Common music dancing ana other eh.e-
aiuments for children in the various public halls tne
animal Grafton in Music Hail. goose lace, rowing anu
sailing regatas and the usual display OF nreworKs IN Tic
evening In addition TO all this there were iour COLI
certs in the mammoth Coliseum. Inc programme ""'
sufficiently varied to suit oil classes ana 'here "elo
hrones Of peope who witnessed each and every feature
Chas Francis Adams jr., Bostons CHOSEN orator
+odov and bs GRAFTON was one which will take high
place in the archives where found the productions Oh
the distn guished gentlemen who have preeeded MN
In the first part of his address he made graceiu anu
apprecatye reference TO his predecessors VINO nave
cupied the same position the same occasion' saying
of Charles Sumner that "the deep glow OF his eoquehoe
has burned his name into the history OF emancipation
and Of his native land.' After brief hstoeai survey
OF the past he proceeded as follows:
MIR. ADAMs's GRAFTON.
century ago. out OF every 100 OF the inhabitants OF
Massachusetts, dwet In communities numbering less
than 1900 each, while but single town in the province
contained above 5000 souls To-day-and ths MARKS
wen the change-the majority dwell In communities OF
at least 10OCO each while "A cities and towns contain
more than half Of the inhabitants Of the Commonwealth
one-sixth OF all Of whom citizens OF Boston, stcau
OF the yeoman sailor race, living In the open ar anu III
close contact with nature We have become mahuIac
turing community whose teeming population cr9wdSe S
into heated shops or noisy mills tends necessarily the
busy loom or feeds the hungry furnace whether we
will not therefore, this grave pro9em - 81 one
form Of social and industrial being, Is 10 DC pTesefe ~
another and wholly different form e % ~ he Kent
i'm vigorous life in artisan community wmcn is swarm
| ing to cities
THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES OF MASSACHUSETTS
IL Hoa for ust
OF that labor question which is yearly assuming such III
creased proportions. in fact the blind unconscious
effort OF new social and industrial organization 10
adapt 10 its needs the forms and traditions Oh ahoer
time And yet unless greatly err think it WIZ ,o oe
found the social and political oIgani.aton "a %ni,I I
we inherited from our fathers depended rt sueeesu
working upon two essential Prncpes, an1 uPSa
education, not only in the knowledge taught III
but in that derived from an active contact WIN men ano
pnbIic affairs ;-and next, and more important STILL was
the happy distribution OF property when gave 10 tue
Which is the strongest guaranty Of social and political
stability. These werethese are the soid coLnesi9hes
of our edce. While they rest undlsturDed the onhg
OF the first there ia no need TO speak Massachusetts,
is fully and finally committed to the cause OF universal,
If need be- OF compulsory education Popular opinion
and public and private wealth are ever ready 10 RESPOND
when that cord struck. It is but necessary 10 point
out defects-whether existing deficiencies or possible
development not YET dt w6eneyer
and wherever real need exists for common Schools OF
%iSh schools or normal schools for academies or uni
yersties for truant schools or industrial schools OF
pnbhe libraries we may rest assured that not in our
reprTation M least will the Commonwealth long be
wanting 10 its record More in this she cannot do
The grand old practical college OF the public lie Is vanish
ING with the memory of toWnneeting days The active
contac with nature and with that teaching which no
couse of lectures nor instruction from norman schoOl
can at ali replace with the present modes
of life These grave deficiencies neither legislation nor
public spirit again make good IL remains tor US TO
supply their place best we may through that poor
machinery Of our schools, which We can yet contr0l
nor, If this is done, need we lear the grahu result a
people trained youth to the quick reception o1 new
ideas may wander greatly from its pain, Out Is never
"-''' THE DIGNITY OF OWNERSHIP.
When we pass on however that other essential ee-
ment TO all real social political stability, which Is
found only in general eontontment VI the great mass
OF those whose webeDg all government exists our
horizon is not wholly free from clouds They hang, in
deed lightly the present. bnt 1t is the haze OF 10,
day which betOkens the storm Of tomorrow; Inc RAPID
increase Of manufacturing prosperity mas mtheio l.l,
Piled the no less rapid increase Ol Operative want anu
| Commonwealth founded manufactures Is as yet a
house built the sand 1t thus becomes necessity OF
continued existence that the sense OF propretosp
the dignity of ownershp-that only lmmovaole basis oi
free institutiOns-shOuld somehow or IN some way De
This, however spring only from consciousness IN
the great OF the people that they individually nave
an interest tile vested accumuatiOns OF the WnOle
our future Commonwealth is not TO he governed by those
who have stake in the SOIL and is therefore lncum-
bent upon TO extend the saving dignity wlch enco
passes the landowner TO the operative as We-t must
belong 10 him who tends tue loom 30 ss tnih ~ III IN
who follows the plOw. Our Commonwealth can only be
governed by all o her children, absolutely equal before
her law and that thew may govern well, all should give
their hostages to fortune.
This is our latest problem A new social system de-
mands OF nothing less than an Industrial reorgdnlZa-
ton lest IL result in political decay The lines OF di-
vision in our community must not become horizontal
but, TO prevent their becoming So IL Is necessary that
labor and capital should be partners that tley may
not be enemies or that falling, 1t s necessary tat te
labOrers should their capital, ana not the capl-
tasts labor. This much was settled IN the war OF the
Rebellion. II is not gwen US yet to see now tnls great
result TO about but rtst assured that IL
will not about through any bombardment OF rhet-
orical epigrams yet through tine noisy resolutions
Of strikes; II VIII not come To US tbI0ush polte ac
tion yet through the passage OF muutudnous laws
value OF human labor the demand Tor wealth; AL
these but the barren product OF that spr OF pot-
cal tamperng which has been described as Tie odious
vice OF restless and unstable minds
A LEGISLATIVE MILLENNIUM IMPOSSIBLE.
Not our generation, nor many succeeding ones, VIII
see the millennium created by act Of Legislature,
and ushered into being by the club Of constable Far
otherwise; the industrial and social reorganization
essential TO our future like all farreaching social
ments can only result from the combined and quiet
action Of intelligent and determined people attend
REGARDING ali short cuts and royal roads to their
promised land IL must be the result Of the deep ground
the frOthy eddies OF AN Idle rhetoric Germany has
already taught us one lesson; England Is teaching US
another Both lessons TO the STILL small voice
Of aud hope, making Itself heard amid the noisy
ana f aSns the O Of labor have at last
learned TO cooperate well as 10 combine. Are, then,
the laborers OF Germany and Of Great Brtain,-hose
whom constantly refer TO in vic political jar
gon the pauper labor OF Europe ne they more
Intelligent or determined than those OF Massachusesi
Few at least here would TO maintain H. Are they
better endowed with with which to further their
experiments cannot say; bat with Sl60000.000 OF
wealth boarded in the savings banks OF the Common
wealth people should have suficiency of capital
Yet intelligent self.relant, determined children
Massachusetts hang backward in this great work. while
oihers less fortunate lands press the front.
theless the work will yet be accomplished and what the
savings is To the laboring class OF Massachu
setts that and much will the mill and the workshop
e in the future. Here, and here alone lies the solution
of the problem, therein is the ark of salvation.
FUTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
An immutable law, wiser than any recorded upon
human book, has decreed that every people may
IN course Of time regulate its destiny No human
noUer xternal TO Themselves can assist them creatly