The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-06-16

passes through the minute capillaries tC
i every cell and tissue. A pin prick will
| find blood everywhere. The excess passes
4 through the capillaries to the veins, themes
into the lungs, where it is combined will
other ingredients received from the atmos-
phere, and again passes into the heart,
| from which it is forced into every part.
1 So great cities represent the heart and
lungs of society. The lungs-the manu-
featuring cities-prepare the blood in the
form Of clothing, boots and shoes, hats and
caps, furniture-th things for the use and
1 comfort, and education and recreation Of
/ man these pass down the railroads and
aareams (the arteries), they branch of at
every station and landing, and the stream
snbdivides on the country roads (the
cspillaries) and reach every homestead,
and every human being (every cell) then
back through the veins, returning to the
CITY (the heart), come wheat, and corn,
aud meat, through the veins into the lungs
(the manufacturing districts) to feed the
operatives, in order that they may prepare
(ae the lnngs) new arterial blood for re-
distsibution and the red and white cor
.pnscles Of the blood represent money.
I'll the. circulation of blood should cease,
the man Mould die. If the circulation is
irregular or deficient, the man is sick.
The telegraphic wires correspond to the
nerves Of the human body-the convey
ance Of intelligence to sensation. II
mans foot is wounded, his head receives a
dispatch instantly, conveying the intelli-
gence, and the radiating nerves convey the
sensation to every other part and if one
aarfa arnff.a oil 20 feaal ha
pathize and put forth efforts to repair and
heal. As it is thus with a healthy society
All parts must be in intimate relation with
every other part !; all must cooperate for
the common good. 1t must be realized,
that if one part Of the people are in want
and ignorance, all parts Of the body poll
tic must suffer. We must also remember
that as every human body has many parts,
each adapted to its especial work and
function, and happy in that work, so there
must be various parts and organs to the
body polite or social feet, head, hands,
heart, lungs, limbs, muscles, nerves, veins
all Of which are especially fitted to per
form special service for all. and for which
all are performing reciprocal services.
Such is not the present state of society, but
we are slowly approaching it. said you
had reached the third stage Of industrial
progress and education.
The fJSt stage Of industry is that in
which war alone is considered the proper
vocation Of free man Women and slaves
must do the field work, aud weave, spin,
knit. and sew for the soldiers.
Many small tribes or nations are, by
conquest, finally consolidated and held
within natural boundaries by thestrongest;
then the seco',d stage of industry is reached,
life being comparatively secure, wars less
frequent, and only portion of the men
required for the army.
Men now engage in industry and trade
at first reluctantly, however; then comes
division Of labor, the second stage. The
division Of physical labor among uneduca-
ted men, people whose brains contain no
pabulum, nothing to digest while at work,
IS stupefying and degrading. A man who
Is occupied all his life IN making the thir-
teenth part Of pin, with nothing to think
about, is evidently not living as he ought
Though Spinoza, while engaged in earning
scanty living by polishing spectacle
glasses, worked out in his head his won
derful system of philosophy. he was ed1-
N4tCA+4CtOiO hO WCht W POhAonhttA ktnSDCD.
The,third stage of industry Is that in
which the Hand Worker has received some
education, so that while he works with his
hands he builds in his head machine to
do what his hands are doing he becomes
an inventor, a machinist, and a manager
ofmachinery. This is the stage in which
you are to-day, for every farmer is now
machInist every farm has its workshop,
great or small. Many an intelligent farm
lad can run the steam engine that drives
his fathers threshing machine, and all
have at least common school education,
the tools for acquiring all human know
ledge.
You all use complicated machinery; you
all know when 1t is out of order. If you
hear some unusual rattle or squeaking,
yoH stop your machine instantly, ascertain
the cause, and apply the remedy.
ITO be Contnuedl