Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-11-06


The man who never had climbed the
ladder, had very little distance to fall
Wo have lots Of mechanics In this
country, but scarcely any ono who
knows a trade, The man and machine
together can make shoe, but divorce
them, aud tho man finds he can make
but part Of shoe, lie thought that
no would learn part OF the trade and
the machine would do the rest, When
machines and manufactures stopped,
these men could do nothing, They
had no trade,
RCoSoMr,
Then came the idiot cry feconomy,
] cant call ii anything else but tho
idiot cry. Tho man heard II from the
pulpit. lie heard II from the press
He heard 1t everywhere. He then
goes home and says ~ must econom-
ize," He discharges his hired girl,
whom he paid 81 a week, for the sake
of economy, lie discharges his coach.
man for economy,
That cry causes more real want than
any thing else The rich man ought
to be cxlravagant. The man who
would sit at q feast and 60 hungry,
excitcs your contempt the rich man
who is not extravagant, excites mine.
Ina country where the rich ore ex'
travagant, and the poor economical, Is
prosperity and happiness. In n coun'
try where the rich are economical, and
the poor are extravagant, is beggary
and want. (Applause.)
Whenever l see u palace built by o
rich man, Isay to myself, THAT palace
has been blessing to great many
people," 1t has given employment to
huadreds. Extravaganza, say, is the
finest form OF charity. The real
economy is to use your money so as
to get the most JOY from 1t, and make
the most people happy. You cannot
give friend money tor nothing -
lie gives something for it whether
you get anything or not. He gives
his manhood for it, whether you get
it or not. A population supported by
charity is the most miserable populA-
ton in existence. Italy was ruined
by the thousands of her people sup
ported by charity. It's no use to try
and boost any man who won't climb.
IT you do, hell drop. Uaughter)-
No one is as happy as he who makes
some one else happy.
Labor is the only effectual prayer
and the only prayer that has any right
to be answered Labor saving mach
inery ought to help mankind by short.
ening the hours of work Men used
to work fifteen hours day. Now
they work eight and ten. After you
have done days work, you go home
too tired to do any thing but eat your
supper and go to bed. Like horse
in a treadmill, you 60 round and round
and don't advance a bit. II sickness
comes there is 4 genuine bankruptcy.
l tell you such life is not worth liv-
ing. l had rather my children should
find an early grave than live such
a life. Just see what we do now and
what we did formerly. A good man
could formerly reap by hand a half
acre per day. Now, with a patent
reaper, man can do ten times as
much as formerly. With all these
advantages, it seems to me that a
reasonable amount of labor should win
tho necessarips of life. Now comes
man who says he wants
MORE MONEY.
1t seems to me that everything
comes from the soil. We must pro-
duce what we destroyed. We can't
make it by act of Congress. There
is money enough, l find. What is
wanted is collateral. l can get all the
money want it could only get the
Laughter.) Congress,
then, should not make money for us,
but give us the collateral cloud
laughter.) The trouble is, we differ
in definitions. You use a word, and
I use the same word and mean differ
emily, and then we argue. Money,
we are told, is an instrumentality to
facilitate trade. l don't believe that
Men formerly bartered their wheat
and their shoes, their commoditieS.-I
I dig the gold and you raise the wheat
then we swap. That is barter! How
can any one say. .hen, that money is
m fundamentally to facilitate ex-
change /. I will tell you. The coin
ing OF money is measure to facilitate
trade. 1t saves a man the trouble of
scales with him. We differ,