The New York herald., 1872-09-21

loss WucAC hC vSAS~ s''S '~~"'--S
"a solitary soldier equipped and plumed for war
aqencies and incidents or peace he seems incon-
gruous and fantastic--a relic OF some bygone age
q representative OF social order long since fallen
into decay. But mass one hundred thousand such
tiiscipfined and supplied with all the requisite en-
jestic, power It's terrible significance are plain
even to the sdTiring a gaze n,o o. children; irsa
rude log cabin has just been thrown up,
around which he is slowly beating back the empire
seems petty W and cssa when regarded 3 BY i.sel
but could we, from some commanding height, some
ship o. !, the a look down a. the whole
recognize In their desultory array the skirmishing
line OF advancing civilization, the harbngers or
Intelligence, comfort, thrift humanity and religion.
The wolf, the boar the serpent, perishing or van
ishing as the pioneer host slowly, irregularly yet
Inc xoraby moves on are now seen to be types o.
oNn CHIEF END
OF industrial exp0sitiOns, TO make the wOrkingman
realize the essential value and true dignity or his
work. The Infinite division and subdivision OF
labor exacted BY modern invention and machinery
are calculated to obscure these inspiring consider
atons. The artisan or artifcer devotes his
days to making, not q whole watch, but
give mis- life to Matchmaking yet never see one
watch perfected. as the most skilfu and valued
worker in a factory may spend his years in setting
up looms or compromising dyes, and never make
one yard OF cloth. me Exposition is needed to in
spirit each with thorough, cheering conscious,
labors and efforts ofall. gazed with interest on
the opening Of the 1Kst Worlds Exposition in Lon
don twsSnty0ne years asS Apparently super
dukes and Garter knights, In honor OF the efforts
and products OF smiths and weavers, smacked OF
grimace and anectati0n How could they truly
honor manual industry who had all their lives
STUNNED 1T AS A DEGRADATIONf
And yet that parade OF feudal trappngs and gcw-
avVo n upf nj Ia
ever blindly and even insincerey. No prophecy OF
the auspiciOus day when swords shall be beaten
was ever clearer than that procession Of royalty
and arstocracy OF plenpotentiaries and gold sticks
in waiting to usher in the display Of all nations rs,
Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, April 80, 1881. Our
work, too, generally compels US to look down, to fx
out the view Of stars and mountains, and c0ncen-
trate our thoughts upon bits OF metal or few
head and bent frame. We need occasionally to
straighten up to expand our chests with full iDsp
ratons Of @ the free @ air Of heaven We need to real M
highly needful replentshment OF basket and store; /;
that its best result is the skilfu modest, upright
faithful, large-souled workman. Such is
THE LESSON Ir..
which the Exposition is teaching tens OF thou
sands: The material recompense Of labor is indis.
pensable, but the honor paid to the achievements OF
the highly deserving workman Is beyond and
above this the sky is above the EARTH Nor is this
to that Industrial cooperation which seems to me,
even though distant and difacult nevertheless in.
evitable. Strikes for higher wages, strikes for
shorter days l0ckouts trade unions, all suggest to
the radical vice of our mode of determining the
workman's compensation. He should manifestly
his product. He is oftener paid in proportion to
the time he manages to consume in creating or
1ashioning It. Hence eye service, dawdling, and
the production OF fabrics and wares that look well,
but fail to wear or serve well. This cannot always
endure. Yon need not tell me that any essential
change is difficult, for know already that
ALL GENUINE REFORMS
are exceedingly go; that they are only achieved
through suffering and sacrifice, and alter repeated
failures. You do not rlghten me by asserting that
cooperative industry involves complicated and
troublesome account keeping, for know that des-
Slavery REQUIRES 5 less reckoning and bargannS
ana bookkeeping than any system Of free labor.
Do not ask me first how cooperation Is to be re-
experiments, mistakes and failures in the early
tentative stages Of the reform. ! foresee that
rogues ana chariatans WIN seize upon It. IN a the
I clearly see all this; but think | discern q
brighter idea stretching away beyond it. Now
to government and proved a success, after making
all due allowances for drawbacks, believe the ap-
pcation to industry is
that the workers who make clothes or shoes. or
whatever else may minister to human sustt Cance
rather than hirelings, dividing eQutaby and
wholly the proceeds instead OF accepting share
perfect se weebS
the compensation OF workers alone may be
rendered practicable. benefcent and secure. and
he who wants house built in Cincinnati will apply
to corporation OF practical builders, organized
y PARK m & or M gasan sa WIN Wh
master builder or hrm, and nave his work done at
least as well and as reasonably as now, while the
toned among those who have earned 1t. II you
ask "Where Is the capital to be had ~ point to
the hundreds OF millions now deposited in savings
n q al tn vvor Il
ingmen and women, and say, "rhere it is." The
depositors are careful saving, thrifty people who
will not risk their scanty boards in rash expert
ments, as indeed they should not; but whenever 1t
shall have been demonstrated that they may as
safely invest in cooperative undertakings as lend to
those bv whom the laboring class are now
hired and paid, there viii be no lack
of capital for such investment. even though the
rich should supply none Of it. Ours Is prc-emi-
nenty an age OF invention, Of Industrial progress.
can remember time when the steamboat was
still novelty and a freside marvel; when no mile
OF iron track had yet been laid on the surface of
our planet; when American canals were merely
cOntrivances for circumventIng cataracts and of
vessel had ever crossed sea, and when the cleo
trio telegraph was as inconccivable as broad,
firm rF r17t e-' -l- l1 Efs -ff .H1t- s. tN
.la 4n HIGHWAY TO THE MOON.
To NOW grass, to cut grain or sew garments by
machinery was then unimagined. We exported
lantc, Its bays and inlets, and our malls were
wholly drawn by horses at an average speed
less st than y s s.rSes Say
and machinery, OF steam aud electricity, during
the present century, and mainly in my day, who
can nationally doubt that industrial progress Is
yet the threshold of its career; that tile inven-
tions OF the next half century must far surpass in
scope and utility those OF the preceding. Happy is
the generation just entering upon this stage OF be-
ing, II its leaders and teachers shall realize that
the nobest achievement towards Which its exer
tions should be directed-the highest attainment
within its reach-ts q more generous, more en-
llghtcned, more courageous, more devoted genera
ton to follow 1t, qualified and incitcd to take
nm a hac
laid down, and bear 1t on to still
greater, grander and moro beneficial triumphs
THE SERENDAE.
At halfpast seven O'Clock the crowds about the
Buinet Honse began to increase. BY eight the
length Of Vine and Third streets In front OF the
hotel was crowded by at least thirty thousand
people, while the balconies OF the hotel were so
jammed that the police could only
With great difficulty open n way for
Mr.. Greeley TO the corner balcony, whence he
was to deliver the speech by halfpast eight. Half
a dozen ward clubs, numbering in all about five