New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-20
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/ bid you welcome to this harvest home, as
you come hither with your household gods the wives
of your hearts and the children Of your love- to this
farmers festival you have emphatcaly the right to
call your own. do not hther in response 10 the
invitation with which Ihaye been honored to attempt
to instruct you TO growing crops booded stock ms
to the implements of the Agricultural the methods OF
his profession TO tell you when 10 plant how TO reap
or in any way to the role OF on expert as to
farmers lives or farmers duties. One OF the most
powerful and lncisive editorial writer's OF our ago
HORACE GREELEY-and pause here to that with his
wonderful brain, bis bold and original thought his
epigrammatic power OF expression, but above all his
arge-hearted and faT-reachinR philanthropy, which
sought to upft the poor and better their condition.
and knew distinction OF or color, OF creed or
cline he was indeed honor to his country aud bis
age-this noble-bearted wsrm-hearted humanitarian
adopted as the quaint title Of of the books which he
wrote IN spare hours snatcbed from the abors Of daily
editing What Know About Farming" But can as
sure you that what don't know about farming would I'LL
q good many more volumes than Horace Greeley ever
wrote during the whole Of his busy life. intend there
FORE to-day only TO make practical suggestions as
to matters Of individual and National concern outside OF
the realm OF partisan politics, with which the few
that you give out of the crowded day of your
fair these exercises may not be unprofaby occupied
LABOR-sAvING MACHINERY.
The most striking characteristic OF the present age
the extraordinary multiplication Of industries and helps
to industries with rapidy Of progress and advance
ment unknown aud undreamed Of heretofore. / know
very well that there those who insist that laborsay
ing machinery Is evil and only evil contnualy that 1t
dlmnshes demand for manual labor and is inmical
10 personaindusry: that 10 revolu,iOnizng the 0ldfash
Toned system labor has thrown millions out OF employ
meut increased the number Of tramps, etc. etc But
while do not the one hand, regard the remarkable
very rapid development OF abor-saying machinery
during the last half century unmxed good IN all
respects yet the sweeping TRADE against 1t Ia, on the
other hand the most absurd well the most mis-
eheyous of faaces so far from its being true, has
asserted that three millions Of labOrers are out OF
work country, do not believe the aggregate OF
those able and willing 20 work at wages equal 10 the cost
Of living but who ind demand for their labor eX
ceeds One-fourh II indeed It exceeds onesxth Of that
number.
Tie truth is undeniabe that invention, OF which labor
saving machinery the outgrowth, IA itself the result
and the Outgrowth OF civilization aud progress. Aud an
other uudenlabe truth II, that with civilization always
come additional necessities and additional expenses
II reaper are to be burned according to the gospel
our labor refomers. the tamps, the cradles for
granheds aud the tanning mills too must be destroyed
on the funeral pile. For to harvest your crops
with the sickle as IN the oden time TO thresh them with
the FALL and to wnnow them with the WIND would fur
nlsh aboters with employment besides being more
primitive. To be truthful We must all concede that
laborsavug machinery made possible the extraordinary
Development OF vast Western country. without u
our crops could not have been gathered when million
men wore In arms away from home for the salvation OF
the Union. Il has undeuably enabled us in the New
World 10 rival the Old World In the very markets OF the
Old World ITSELF IN manufactures Aud official statistics
prove that In tho ten years ending 1860 number OF
farmers and fam-hands IN our great grain-pToducng
states actually increased in spite Of the rapid introduce
ton OF farm machinery, fully 90 per cent; and during
the years to 1870 nearly 30 per cent more
being actually 10 per than their share OF tho
increase OF our total population.
One point in discussion frankly concede, because
truth equires tand that H. that the development In
machinery in present century has been sudden, 20
rapid as well as vast :arreaChng that II has 20
some extent unsettled and dsarrangcd the demand for
labor aud Will until this increased production al
cheaper rates aud the increased consumption incident
TO reduced prices have mad time to assimaie and nc
commodate themselves TO each other. ,,.
Take the plough, the supreme necessity OF agriculture,
which used 10 be IN the last century so bulky In size
anu 50 excessively cumbersome ~ uIasEhi. mo % you
TODAY would back 10 the awkward plOughs oi your
ancestOisi TAKE rorhsheller- In the a5 celut, one
man could shell bat few bushels per DAY Nhlie now
with steam or horse power TWO men can sh u l:OOp
bushels per day t has been estimated tht 20 she tbc
corn crop the six great States-IOwa, Illinois,
Indiana. Missouri ONO and insAs-'n the fashion OF
tne last century, the entire farming community OF hSse
states womb heed seVeu,eeh soIu iA'uN ,i, i"t
cOrnshelling alone besides the time spent IN plouBhllH
10 herce 10 mark, Look AT wheat haTycstinR IL
was not shown by Mr.. Colin before Congressional
that the cradle superseded the sickle this labOrsayng
implement enabling man 10 40 IN one day as much as
ago. Hussey out the first mower patent aud II Is
less than tbird OF century since Mccormick com
menced the manufacture which has made MIN so amous
and which, years later, gave 70 him aud 70 America
that greatest OF machinery triumphs at the Worlds
Fair IN Paris I'm 1888 How impossible 10 would be 10
harvest thu crop OF America now with the sickle OF
the last century. need not pause moment to prove
tradetOn that In spite OF all tins machinery there are
more engaged IN growing, harvesting and trans
porting grain than before; this resulting In tho
cbeaD1r bread Look az sewing machines How would
you plO he \
Seisate Derican proves 6y the figures OF the census
that cannot lie. that the number Of persons earning
their living by sewing has increased since their nyun
ratio or than the increase OF our popua-
ton. do not OF course speak approvny OF the very
low prices paid in many eties Tor womans sewngi put
quite great under the old system as under the
is insisted that. asaborsaving machinery increases.
number OF Ia must necessarily IN the
same ratio. But The Scientific American shows that In
the manufacturing State OF Rhode Island, from 1870 70
1875, when machinery being rspidly introduced,
the aggregate number Of laborers employed IN manu-
featuring that State increased from 40 900 $4,000
and the wages paid per year from Sl9OOOOOO % 49,
OO0OOO and IN Massachusetts' while there were put
$4,000 persons employed in cotton manufactures ~
1870 that number had increased in 1873 70 10000, and
the value OF the goods manufactured had rsen IN spite
OF declining prices, from S59OOOOO0 per year 20 S77
100000. 800
MoRMoNIsM.
None OF shut his eyes the fact that II is to-
day the shame and dishOnor OF Republic that, while
# gave the lives OF half million OF braYest and
best with thousands OF millions OF treasure, in order
that the authority Of the Nation should be maintained
and It's laws oheyed throughout the South, yet In
Of our Western Territories officers and Legsla
ture paid out OF your taxes and whose legislation is
directly under the authority and control Of your Con-
qress one law Of tho United States openly wAntony
nsultngly disobeyed, denounced, aud even de6ed f;
while the benefits Of NIL the rest OF your laws-hOme
stead, postal, naturalization, passports etc-are de-
manded. And more than this one can lift his voice
against this law-defyiug outrage-outrage the Ma.
tona authority outrage morality and decenoy out
rage on American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. being be-
spattered with abuse by these wllful eyidoers and
their sympathlzers and defenders. It may surprise
many OF YOU knowing as you do that these Mormon