New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-05

acknowledged Are they committed to puhy ha"'S "
:. a,hood broa lcnei and strenglhehed anu en',
Ioor then at our population, what II Is Spio'u io"
I, II "a land 1t might be said that America icP-
-, c,,r. n ttion on the globe better thdn tAt h"io'i
- cents itself We have the best thihS' 1l'S i"'' So
=. ireland for we have stripped her a-ihos' odI'' ""
have the elrny Scotchman IN G'c"' """''
among u.s. though not enough loi Vu So
W. have the Ensllshman among us anu are
"O -, ,rs,,,,es Of having English blood
-. - ,i,.s We have also those from Norway sweden
I,,or,, Rus.la even, Germany. Austria ana hungary
It,Iv syip France, Switzerland We can 'uf'lo'u az
tbese nations out Of population many fuc'n''i' VI
,vbou they arc not ashainet anu iul WYNN
70 oro grateful We have our fields tilcd by foreign
hords. orr roads built by them This Il matter OF
Ii,,I economy but the question which propose 10
In n What are they as component elements o. new
American stock2 DO you believe in siock-do you De-
liare in Hood do. Do ycu believe IN crossing luui
oousyl DO YOU believe that the best blood oil all ma
,ions will ultimate by and by III better race
than the primitive and the uncompleH race mn
inc new strength and allianCesl We have iofVnot
our blood. curiched our blood; we have caiIeu
,ha world 10 be our father and the lathcr VI
our children aud postcrity, and there never was t
in the history OF this nation when the race S'oc" % "
it so much that worth the study Oh 'he ~!
and phllanthropist as to-day. We are eAF'."eu S '
The mower Of gratitude for regard al the neon
,bs digaoncc Of customs the difference of religion the
adherence in domestic arrangement-l regard an 'hoso
ipconvenIences rs a trlfe; but the augmentation Vi
noor of breadth Of manhood. the promise OF tac 'uc'
is mast all computation and there never was inert never
began to be in the carly day such promise Tor phISc
gor and enriched life there is to-day upon ths con
tinent.
CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AND HAPPINESS
And now consider that not only is this racesocS ior
these reqsons made better one than mat Whch cs'eu
hundred years ago, bit consider that the conuos %
axistepce among the whole population are better IMAM
thev were hundred years ago We not only wear Oet'o
hoaas h,t WE have better bellies Igrcat lauGhterI
WITH better food in them. We have also Deuef cotucS
now In other words, the art OF living h1'itl! '.'' ~
vanced immensely aud though cities nave ehlarRc" anu
tbouch the causes Of dangers TO sanitary co't'V "
multiplied science has kept pace. and there never was
time will not say in own history hui IN ihe history
., apv nation on the globe, when the c'hui-
.;o,s NJ lie were so wholesome, the c0huuOhs
Of bounincss so universally, dlused' as th'y are
TODAY in this great land. We grumble-wc nlcr' th"
from our ancestors we often NOPE ana FcA ohso'N''
with melancholy representations concerning uoS VI
that danger Some men born to see the de'l 81 ei
anoholy they would him sitting iii the very door OF
heaven methlnks Not Fl for though there De in'.eis
o,d troubles vet when We look the great c0ud onS OF
bpmau life in society and they have been au3meh'ed III
yoraby they never favorable as tAeJ are 70 S
More than that il you will look at the diversity "I the
industries y which ply their hands II we iooh ~
the accumuatine power of the average c-en' you VII
And that il is in the power of man To earn
more in a single ten years of his life to-day
than for our ancestors in the whole OF ther
Nfe The heavens as nearer TO us than TO them LOT we
have learned gro ecras of the storm and the sweep OF
the lightning iho e@ h itself is but just OUTSIDE our
door We caulov eau y Asia and the distant parts OF
the rtj easier th.u t.g could to Boston or Phadel-
ont ,lt ~
hiring 1,tbeI tho butte g.Dbe, and that not ior the
rich IL an and sumpt'0u- liver but i'r tie common
folks q the LAND 10 which al belong me hoeses III
which We live a. better; ei T warmed VI Nln'ef-anu
our SUI 1mers are very vel warmed too 1ti mlelhehts
by which the common works arc multiplied; the
processes which he can con- r 9nd which are organized
in society tl1t nc gets '.c r,heN benefit OF them'
are incllculable. Aud si mat the SOL mas
and all tat the scs mas, ma all tha'
the mountain locks up. aus aH that IS MVlslDe VI
the atmosphere, are mfoY trrtor7 WORKING IN IN
great democratic land for tic uititude, for The great
mass of the aommOn people ' IL iat regard ad-
vapced a. beyond the days 5 hcrs for then they
had not escaped from te hereditary notions or
aristocratic thoughts the arsr' atic classes or the
aristocrati. tcndencics even U Government But Inc
progress Q, tcmocracy-whicL Il not aciely political
but which is religious in literature, art, even III
mechanics ~ OF democrat iinuence mas pceh
for hundla ears washing il tlr,h her and further
toward the . II the common peor. And today til.
IA not on Che of the globe auOthC forty Lions t5
have such aI ilde Of sphere. such strength OF pur
such instrue8f to their hand such capitol for irlL
such OppOrtal'r such happiness. And TINT icld- ne
TO speak-go.a- aside from the common people IN
dviduay O. s r casses-of their institutions, and let
me begin whore yOu began. in the household
Ill
CHANGES IN TUE HOUSEH0I y.
WHAT'S the fan ~ dhousehold to-day rcdwith
the family and d ,sehold hundred years ago Time is
great magnify D medium. We look back hundred
years and think at influences Of the housea and OF
society been better, purer than they to-day
No no. II there be thing thai has grown solidty
and grandeur in richness and purity and refinement II
has been the American household On there we're here
and there notable mansions here and there notable
households of intelligence and virtue in che Ollen DAY.
But we are with the averages and the average
American household wiser, there is moro material for
thought for comfort for home love- TO-DAY in the ord
parry worlman's house, than there hundred years
400 In one of hundred rich mems mansions and build