Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-27
Price Four Cen
Extracts From ohorda,,s Letters.

There are lot of mechanics who | manage to get into every shop in the land. who judge of possibilities entirely by their
 own weak accomplishments. They are the
 ones who do the grumbling. Their weak
 minds never understand the circumstances around them, and they foolishly and blindly give utterance to the stereotyped growi.
 There's no show for mechanic" Is there no show for maehinists, Mir. Editor? Turn to the last pages of the American Machinist and there read the biography of the working man. The advertisiug pages tell the tale sixty men put their names on those pages. They employ five thousand workmen and over six million dollars of capital.
 Were these sixty men born with these mil lions in their pockets? Did they fall heir to a bit of it. Look here: At the age of eight cen over forty of these men were working in the Shops, drilling Set screw holes in pulleys, cutting bolts, chipping new holes in old boil CTS, contriving ways and means to get old broken heads out of old cylinders, forging square keys out of round iron, butt-welding erroneous connecting rods, gouging out core boxes, giuing up segments, splitting white pine dust. cutting up old boilers, building up new boilers, putting in good ri7ets, cutting out old rtvets, bedding floor n moasos, 1aing ramming copes, filling for another mans money. They were not preparing themselves to take charge of pro bAted fortunes. Tho, were working. Of these forty men, thirty did not, at the age of eighteen, have fifty dollars they could call their own. Of the five thousand men they now employ, three thousand were then their shopmates
 Among these sixty men can be found the names of some of the highest social powers in this land of ours. Hightoned society made no exception among the three thou sand and sixty. Society never said to one of tho Jvfr EH G,,l Ls..EI-
 twenty years from now come to us." Society never said anything. The sixty said. For tune never said ''I see mark; come to me-" Fortune never said anything. The sixty said. The five thousand in the shop never said to the sixty: ''We see a mark on you; shoot ahead and we will lag and work for you" The five thousand never said anything The sixty said. Providence didn't chalk out future for the sixty. The sixty did their own chalking, and left the five thousand to lean on Providence.
 Civil law never said, 'sixty of you chaps must be smart and prudeut-thrifty five thousand of you must starve in pot houses after werk is over" Law don't push men for ward. The sixty did the pushing.
 A low down blackguard blows the fumes of cheap whiskey in my face and tells me there is no future for mechanic. Oh, no! of course not. If a man is foolish enough to learn the machine trade, of course he can never hope 50 call pane of glass or 8 rose bush his own! Of oourse he can never hope to take daily papsr, Or to own copy of Comstocks philos- ophy, or twenty dollars worth of general books, or to be called on to rule in public councils, or to head public charity, or to see his children well educated There's no show. of course. If man ever touches a chipping hammer, a wise people will never call on him to govern State. If he ever splits rail, goodbye to all future prospects. Ohordar' in American Machinist