The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-26
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ness, and compelled the boosted masters
of the sea to sign treaty of peace at
Breda, and had been an apprentice to a
| shoemaker. Napoleon Bonaparte-him-
self of humble origin. and the greatest
doer of modern unrestricted the Brit
ish with being nation OF shopkeepers;
and yet to the derided shopkeepers, more
I than to aught save circumstance, he owed
| the thunder-stroke to Waterloo. t.. ta.
All the world over the men who work
are the men who win. 1t has always
been so and always will be- They who
! despise labor despise themselves. The
drones in the hive of humanity are stung
to spiritual death by consciousness of
their own folly Still, in the face of self
enforced morals, of indisputable facts,
there have been, and there are, men and
| women claiming distinction because they
do nothing, imagining id1eness to be an
! honor Because they are zeroes they
fancy they make figure in the world,
| forgetful that zeroes add nought to the
sum of progress or prosperity. Fortu-
| nately, and fifty in this era OF uncommon
sense, rarer than genius always, the con-
| ceited do-nothings are disappearing fast.
| By normal law, too, since Nature does
not keep what she does not need. The
days of Show and Sham, of Title and
| Theory, are rapidly passing .Clylllza-
| ton has come to mean reason, truth and
practicality This generation says to
every man. II care not who you are but
what you can do If idle or inefficient,
stand aside for your betters; for they
are your betters who can and will work.
! l Judge each and all by their labor and
its fruits p 5
! Work, in a word, has become the fash
/ iona fashion set ages ago, but never
largely followed until now. Antecedents
and ancestors authority no longer count,
even in oligarchies, unless sustained by
acts. The governing heads of the globe
have active brains and busy hands. Only
| to the striving and strenuous are the
badges of distinction given. Only to
those who are up and doing come the
early and the full rewards. The first
and strongest nation of the Continent IS
composed of the hardest workers, and
owes her position more to her work than
to her genius or her advantages. Ger
many believes in education and exertlon,
not in precedents, rehabilitation or mil
itary glory, and for this reason she pre-
i vailed over confident and naughty
France. The lesson, though severe, has
not been lost on France Her defeat
will be her triumph in the end She has
learned the value of labor, and will not
hereafter underrate or contemn labor
ious foe. Henceforth from the Rhine
to the Pyrenees, the newest and best OF
fashions, in the home of fashions, Will
be the fashion of Work. The mode IS
prevailing in Russia, Austria, Italy, and
Spain Each year it is more firmly es-
tablished; its every movement forward
is movement upward.
Perhaps the strongest evidence that
can be offered of the fashionableness OF
work is the fact that in England (there
caste-feeling and rank-worship, by a
strange anomaly, have been more deeply
rooted than almost anywhere else), some
of the highest noblemen have placed
their sons in commercial houses with
view of educating them as merchants.
This audacious innovation may endanger
the British Constitution, of which the
Britons talk so much and know so little;
but the shadowy old bugbear has fallen
of late into such disesteem that cads ana
costermongers alone revere it. England
is undergoing a social revolution, and
labor is the pivot on which 1t turns. The
whole question is, Who shall rule-they
who work without reward, or they who
are rewarded without workr This perti-
nent interrogatory thrusts itself into all
politics; demands of all Governments
that it shall be answered.; refuses to be
cajoled or delayed, or neglected any
, longer.
The Republic is the land of work-the
Mezzoramia of workingmen, whatever
! their craft, order, or degree. Its very
atmosphere is inimical to idleness. lie
who would waste his time must go else
} where to waste it consistently and COM
fortably On the gates of every city of
America are inscribed DEGREES of Danish
ment against all her sons who refuse the
duties belonging to them, or who shirk
J the responsibilities of their station. We
work here when we have no pecuniary
need-not because we are mercenary, but
because we think our moral@health and
mental development require that we
4, should They who are not anxious to do
, something on principle, do something
now for fashion sake. Dawdling loung-
; ing, and struggling to kill time are out of
: vogue, and for this reason, if for no
: higher, are to be avoided. Even women
/ who are devotees of mode feel ashamed
to be unemployed. Many women in easy
, circumstances have turned their heads
and hands to earning money, which is
: the more precious to them by the novelty
, of its acquisition, and by their natural
, adherence of asking for it. The best
society is that of character and culture,
understanding and activity, where they
: who compose it can tell without her
aldry who and what they are. 1t is not
uncommon nowadays to hear, "She is
: charming indeed. "What does she do ?
3 She is exceedingly clever Wherein does
be lovelier if she had more to fill her
time" Assuredly this is q most hopeful
sign. When such women rise up to
pluck the fruit of labor, no man can
afford to lie under the shade of the
: boughs. Through the fashion of work
we are arriving at the true aristocracy-
the government of the best-helping on
: the cause of humanity, elevating the des-
: tiny of the race. The noble fashion was
! first set here and here shall it be. fixed.
:, Having been followed elsewhere, it will
= not be abandoned. The world has long
! been coming to it, and win not part with
j a mode whose advantages grow daily
Q more apparent The fashion of Work is
e the triumph of the democratic idea in
: the most concrete of forms. II is the
best and wisest of fashions; for all men
7 and all women who adopt it will find it
! to fit their character, and to be becoming
= and beautiful at all seasons. .4s
, A gentleman of Elegant leisure" and
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