The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-05

PORTANT MOVEMENT ON THE COAL
WASTE EfI!o From 20 TIl PFEHHNANsYLvAHfA AN
THRAC1TE GOAL-SPEECH OF HON.
WILLIAM u, KELLEY ON THE IN
FLUENCE OF SCIENCE ON LABOR
READING OF IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC
PAPERS.
From the Philadelphia Press1
Always since its foundation as state,
or from the discovery within its confines
Of those great essentials Of the commerce
and industries of the present era-iron and
coal-Pennsylvania has stood foremost
among the states of the Union as mineral
state, and her name is celebrated to the
utmost borders of the civilized world for
her wonderful productions and manufac-
lures of those articles. Therefore an
assemblage within her limits, and especially
in her principal city, of men distinguished
throughout the country as metallurgists,
and theoretical and practical miners and
engineers, bearing so heavily upon our vast
and important industries as they do, must
every Pennsylvania, no matter Of what
moved practically from our mining affairs.
1t is a matter, therefore, to which all
should at least turn attention when it is
known that the American Institute of
mining engineers is in session now in our
city, and that from their deliberations vast
benefits may be derived by all, for the
single reason that, whatever concerns our
coal and iron interests, must ultimately
affect the interests Of all the people Of our
state and city.
This convention is not only composed of
practical mining engineers, but ranks
among its members some of the most emil
nent scientific men in the country, whose
theoretical knowledge, submitted to the
cruclbles of their more practical brethren,
must leave as a residue results which will
tell most potently upon our productions
and manufactures in the future.
The institute met last evening in the lee
ture-.oom Of the Mercantile Library hall, on
Tenth street, above Chestnut, now occupied
by the Board of Trade. Hon. R. w. Ray
mond, United States Commissioner of Min
ing statistics and president of the institute,
occupied the chair, and opened the session by
introducing Hon. William ID. Kelley, who
delivered an address of welcome to the
members of the institute, as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
American Institute of Mining engineers
The agreeable duty of welcoming you 10
the city of homes and workshops on your
assembling for the purpose of holding the
second annual meeting of the institute has
been assigned to me, and in the name Of
her capitalists, of the skilled artisans EN-.
ployed in her vast and varied industries
and of her devotees to science, | bid you
welcome to Philadelphia.
You will, | trust, find time during youl
stay in the city to visit some of our more
important workshops, and especially the
large and well-appointed yards for the
construction of sea-going IRON steamers,
which have come into existence, as if by
magic, within the last three years. Yor
will thus have an opportunity to see how
largely we as community are indebted tC
you and others who have faithfully pursued
and applied the laws of mining, mechanical
and civil engineering, and the cordia
greetings you will receive from the proprie
tors of all such establishments and tbost
to whom the superintendent of their sew
eral departments is confded, will convince
you that my words of welcome are no
formal, but sincere and earnest.
But for the forces ofnature discovered ant
applied by scientists Philadelphia would b.
but an unimportant inland city, and the
proportions Of the commerce of New York
would be relatively insignificant. The
truth OF this statement is not generally re.
cognlzed. The masses of our countrymer
do not yet perceive the relation of the truly
scientific engineer and the metalurgist to
the worlds progress and their individual
prosperity. Applied science is not yet in
cluded in the system of instruction pro-
vlded by our commonwealth for her chill.
dren. 1t will be, and when that better day
comes the annual meetings of your insti-
tute will be greeted by ovations. Do not.
pray you, gentlemen, suspect me of ex-
aggeration or extravaganza of expression.
Such is not my habit, and l do but use the
language of truth and soberness when saw
ing that to conscientious engineers and me.
tallurgsts we must look for the command
ers and leaders Of the regenerating army
of the future. You may boast that you
are not politicians, but it is for you and
your co-laborers, together with those who,
from the current facts of history. are pa
tiently deducing system of social science
in harmony with natural laws, to regene-
rate society by harmonizing capital and
labor, and bringing the seething anarchy
into subsection to law.
nv Hoiiu oWCS every 1DiIl u living.
This truth, though sadly perverted by
black.legs, thieves, and Migrants, and
though it is denied by every British teacher
of political economy from Nautilus to j.
Stuart Mill, is nevertheless a truth: the
reasonableness and universally of which
are to be demonstrated by the results at
tanned by engineers, metallurgsts, and
their co-laborers in the pursuit and appllca-
ton of the laws which govern the forces of
nature. Earnest men who have not been
bewildered by the mazes and ig,,us fltuii
of a false and artificial science of political
economy have ever believed that the Al
mighty had from the beginning provided
ample sustenance for all bis children.
While yet ANALYTICAL chemistry was un-
known, and the five syllables, Fl e, air, earth,
water, were supposed to enumerate and
define the elements, George Herbert
quantity said:
More servants wait on man
Than he'll take notice of.
"IIe is all symmetry,
Full OF proportions, one limb to another,
and to all the world besides.
Nothing we see but means our good
AS our delight treasure;
The whole is either our cupboard of food
Or cabinet of PLEASURE
And Milton did but express Iie faith of
tile Commonwealth when he made the lady