Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-10-01

while The marx II this century VAS I'VE
worship Of IDEAS. The Greeks as 'hoVn
by their Olympi, games admired force
while we pay homage to the idea which
,mpels aadldirsc,s force. This festival
brinss forth the offspring Of intelligent
industry and suggests as a topic tor dis
eussion
woRKE-s AND TnINKERs.
The hssd-Sorker aud the brain-Worker
have each ausarduous tsss, though too Of
ten the former is isalous au1 enVious Of
The latter. aRd the latter looks with too
little esteem upon the former. The great
eouvulsions Of historical interest have
arisen from the struggles Of the laborers
TO better their condition aud to break
down the barriers erected against them by
individuals d government. Our own
revolution. though not often so regarded
was but a phase Of the great labor ques-
ton. Parliament had hemmed in many
industries BY restrictive laws aud It was
this which irsi aliena;ed the colorists
The Revolution following was the first
step toward the emancipation OF labor.
The higher classes In society nave Sc
cured their rights; the lower classes have
vet long struggle before theirs will be
attained. To reach their rights they
must not attribute to wealth results which
they eau control. nor demand of society
what is in their own hands. A great
trouble has been that the laboring classes
have seemed at least 10 rank manual toll
higher than mental, aud have regarded
thinkers who work silently as trespassers
in the top places in society. Now, mind
will always stand higher than muscle.
Among workers that which requires most
brain is most respected. The man who
all his life is content to dig aud lift will
always bo as the bottem of society for he
brings 10 his work no more than OK brings.
He must came R"i oSgrow- Set brains go
ing as we ib;,. 80; so seen rs this II
done he rises. 1t was and is the law Of
slavery that the slave shall be ignorant,
for so long as lie is can he be kept down
and no longer.
The FIVE dollar bar of iron may be con-
vertod into a numbered thousand dollars
worth of watch springs. A man should
not content himself with being muscle but
should Increase his value by using his
brains in addition. An Agricultural So
cicty should teach farmers to put mole
brains into work; farming is not to dig
and plow and hoe alone, but to watch ma
turc and rise with knowledge of her ways,
Neat buildings and good stock, the
support of schools and the use of labor
saving machinery supplanting drudgery ;
these Indicate the intelligent farmer and
if intelligent the happy man. The farm
er whose buildings toppc, whose kline are
lean, and who has to be chlorotormcd be.
! fore a school-tax can be extracted from
him, belongs to the lowest order Of indus.
try. The one gets rich aud has time for
rational cnjoyments; the other is awaye
poor and always crowded with work;
Luck does not make the difference; the
first loved his work and put mind into it,
the second tespised his work aud longcd
to 90 west enjoyment pays the ono and
continual discomfort the other.
The intelligent farmer can grow to a
rounded manhood. Not only Stewart.
now tie merchant prince, has become a
great fhancer, but EIihu Burritt learned
philosophy in shoeiHg horses, and Hugh
Miller found it in a stone quarry. They
were not slaves in their work, going about
it without thought.
The glory Of this country is that il
''lets OUT its workers; they may grow
govern as wei as obey, and become think.
ors as well as workers. They are better
paid here than the European workers aid
have better means of culture Those
who come to our shores from abroad fine
opening before them larger opportunities
and become worthy citizens by improvin.
them. Citizenship aud "a chance ill {
man with ambition and hope. The for
eigucr does not find here the pyramid, al
Russian Society has been called, with tn,
laboring classes at the bottom and tn,
car at the top, not the conccntric circle
; OF orders Of people as found in England
with the monarch at the center, and th,
position Of each, Interchangeable. He End
rather way, open to any who work in
diligently, from the bottom to the top
To travel this way is the birthright Of la
, ber.
| Hand-workers are to demonstrate thei
, growth by results, and this Society meet
. to mark those results. They should b.
. profitable results showing the discovery o
new truths during the year There ar,
features that do not seem 10 be Of grea
9 utility. How is it that SO many premi
c ums can be afforded for horse-racing
, The best horses are not necessarily tn,
, best trotters. While one man in tn,
market calls for racer a thousand cal
for ether qualities Nor Goes horse rae
ing certainly have tendency to promct,
, speed in our Vermont horscs--the winners
Of your premiums are quito as likely to b.
some autern-jawed, shumblc- gated, bro
kon-down Rosinantes from some foreign
, race-course, as to be from your own sta
bles and Of your own growth Besides
such exhibitions encourage a species O
gambling that is corrupting and induce ;
want Of respect for the law and order
converting an exhibition Of mechanical
= and agricultural skill into demoraliziB,
> sport One county in the State offer
I, $500 in premiums of which 5000 is 70
u trotting. What growth do the worker