Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-08

sells where it can sell for most; skill and muscle
are but one portion of its raw material, as coal
and cotton are another. Ii can be effectively ap-
preached in one way, and in only one To deal
successfully with it, labor has yet to prove one
essential, vital postulatc--it must demonstrate
that labor is more profitable TO capital as part
ner than as an employe. In these few words
rest the whole issue OF this great debate; but
this it can never do till it tries and fails, and
fails and tries again, for nothing here will sue
coed but success. One great cooperative tri-
umph, the result of its own uIassised capital
and its own directing brain, would thus out
weigh TO the labor of Massachusetts the results
of a thousand successful strikes. AT once a
new declaration of independence, and another
Bunker's hill, through its stimulating impulse
the self-reliant energy still native TO the soil
would again assert itself, and would go forth re-
freshed and invigorated by its moral victory. to
the encounter with those other trials which the
future has in store
Still great changes are not easily or quickly
wrought, nor is the period of transition apt to
be pleasant one May we not, however, firmly
trust that the groanS and contortions of the
present are but the agony of trayail2 Truth is
ever born out of error, and success most surely
follows the patient study of failure. That in the
future, the children of Massachusetts will no
more be wanting to themselves than they have
proved to be in the past, we have as yet small
ground to fear. With the burden comes the
strength; the hour will find the man. When the
time is ripe, unless the record of the past is to
serve as sad reproach TO the future, more than
one of her sons will rise up in Massachusetts
prophet in our lsrael-eveu as Horace Mann
rose up third of a century ago. The harvest
was ready, and lo!-the reaper was there The
work that Mann did for education these Others
will do for industry; they will reorganize it and
infuse into its veins the rich blood of better
life; they will cause the workman on his bench
10 feel that he also has a property in his tools
and in the workshop, the home of his labors;
that he, too, owns part of what results from
his toll. BY so doing, they will restore to labor
its independence and its dignity; to the laborer
the great attributes of his republican manhood;
TO the state, the essentials of a continued sta
bility
An intelligent people, all equal before the
law, and laboring together in a community of
interest, might throw light defiance in the face
of change, The forces of evil though they in
clude even civil corruption, could not prevail
against it, True to its early traditions, its early
traditions would guide it in safety through the
dark night of storm and disaster And should
Massachusetts now sustain herself and prove
equal to the great occasion, when another cen
fury of orators shall have responded to your
call, my remote successor, after dwelling in purer
accents upon the wonders which it shall have
been the happy destiny of the coming genera.
ton to unfold, may turn to his distant present
and there behold our ancient commonwealth
still retaining her place at the head of that proud
column whose animating spirit went forth from
her shores, and which he also in truth and in
sOberneSS may see as "a noble and puiSsant ma
ton rousng herself, like a strong man after
sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; an eagle
mewing her mighty youth, and kndling her
undaZzed eyes at full midday BEAM"