The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-20

the taiismanic letters they viii find, that
incentive 10 defer the future Of America
what has been done By the great and
COED Of to-day.
TEE INDUSTRY OF AMERICA.
In all things In our country, whose
interests we should remember on this
day Of commemoEation and rejoicing, il
should be our industrial forces, and If
there Is TO be one thing more than
another that is torecsive our sympathies,
both moral and material, it il the artisan
of America, that being Of whom It has
been said By q loving heart, that beat
warmly for the WOFkingmen of the
United States:
Glove the blacksmith 81 his anvil,
The weaver az his loom,
The tailor at his table,
The miner IN the gloom;
The man who strides the dewy seld, where
sweet wild flowers blO0hl,
And steps among the golden grain to the
reapar's dr8ning tone:
Gathers the red-cheeked apples, or breaks
the fruitful sod.
The lofty viii not see him, az he walks with
Christ earth's road,
Vet the the wOTkingman IS Of the aEistoCraey
Of God.
And 90 be ia, the great producer, this
muscular aid Of our county, with his SC
tive brain to direct al united tending to
the development of America. it il true
that in q certain sense we are all work
ingmen, all dependent, but there are GER
tain classes, tOileTsy heWeTg Of wood and
| drawers of water, men and women who
| fill our workshops, whose each and every
hour brings forth q result, for purposes OF
utility or ornament, and in thousand
WAYS are useful, yes, necessary, 70 the
lthfulness Of the body economic. The
great body of the army Of Workingmen
and women of the union are in holiday
attire to-day. They are peaceable, they
are intelligent, and they should receive
that full NEED of active legislation IN
their behalf, that social support, and that
material aid that il one of the most wise
actions Of the body polite. Care for the
4 farmers of the material constructions OF
the country, let laws look directly to
their necessities, for they are money.
Leqislate Immediately for their improve
ment, educationally and otherwise.
| And the day will come, when to be an
American artisan, viii be q synonym OF
nobility in any man throughout the
world, as it il patent Of gentility IN
Eour own country TO say a man is an in
dustrious artisan, he Is an honest work
ingman.
PEACE.
To-day the nation is at peace let Us
confirm this tranquility by the suppress
sion of agitation, let sill the resolutions
. of disturbance, of disCord, and Of antago-
nism have their errors absorbed into the
mercies Of peace, whose white wings shall
envelop them in calm and protection.
Let repOse be the wish and hope Of our
people, and while we claim that In the
Z mighty hosts that are marshalled to-day
in patriotic rehearsal OF the most notable
of all events in the history Of the world
; we can command peace from the world
let us first emulate that thought OF IN.
! spiration he who controlling himself u
> greater than he who commands ylct0sL
> Gus armies. Peace and unity . Wha'
+ the national occasion and the day de
mands. With peace, the future o. Amer
, ica Is one of unguestiOned stability and
! progress. This peace can be established
: bv the Cultivation Of all past amnestlSs
mutual concessions, the shading thS
2 sword with the olive branch, the calume1
] Of peace invoked in the councils OF tn'
: nation. YesI let the dead past bury 10
I dead. true nobility looks to the tnEuFe
let that future become peace.