Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-12-06

the crops that grow IN our nelds, while
there has not been an exorbitant yield
Of any one, neither has there been a
failure of any; and that the sum total
of the yield has been more than enough
for our own wants, and that like as in
those years of dearth in the days of
Joseph, to US, as to Egypt. the nations
FOUND about come to buy the corn their
go lands cannot produce /; the feeling
If thanksgiving should verify dwell in
fur hearts, the language Of thanksgiving
should burst from our lips, and the spir-
t of thanksgiving should minfest itself
IN our lives, SO that men about us, so
zthat the nations of the earth may know
that We do appreciate the goodness of
&ke Lord above us, who having done
many things for US as people, has
once again put the golden crown of ripe
ness, and Of. plentiful harvest upon
the year that has almost gone.
Let US open the second volume of the
catalogue of the Divine Mercies, and
let it be The volume Of the prosperity of
our nation IN the matter OF manufacture
and naechanical appliances.
Two years ago, as a nation, we were
still sitting in the land Of the shadow
of death. Our spindles and looms were
almost silent, the whirr of revolving
machinery was lessened in the volume
of its sound, business was at stagnation
point, and the great ship of commerce
was lying in the trough of the sea of
commercial depression, rudderless, dis
masted and helpless. But since then,
with the bountiful crops of that year,
trade has sprung up, the mechanic finds
ready place for his labor, business has
renewed its old-time bustling, driving
spirit. the ship of commerce having been
overhauled in the port of trade revival.
is speeding under full sail over the
ocean of prosperity, while as a nation
We see wonderful future before US.
From many points, and from many
lands We are receiving constant evidence
that our works of mechanical skill are
not surpassed by the older nations.
Having no traditional law of mechani-
cal procedure to hamper and stultify,
our mechanics have cut out plan. of
their own, and right grandly successful
have they been. Helped by protec-
tive tariff, which if it has made the pur-
chaser pay higher price for his goods,
has kept up the rate of wages for the
arti6cer; We have called to our shores
the skilled workmen Of other lands, and
to-day, whether it is machinery for the
farm, or the shop, or the factory, or the
rail whether it be plows, or moving
machines, or engines, or pins. or pens,
or watches, we are able to 60 to any
market, and, without asking odds in
our favor. compete successfully with
any rival or any competitor.
And, as nation, We are prosperous.
minding our own business. Having no
outside national pie in which to dip our
fingers with the hope of pulling out a
plum, but with the chance also of losing
a finger in the transaction, we are in a
position to devote ourselves exclusively
to the work of Strengthening the frame
work of our national life, and of max
ing our land desirable home for our
children, and for all who seek our
shores with the intention Of becoming
citizens among US.
Now here is cause for devout thank
fulness. We have been able to live
through the period of commercial de.
pression-brought upon us by national
thoughtlessness and extravagance-wt
are once more living in the sunlight
while the language of complaint ha,
died out from our midst.
What shall we do? For mark, ther,
is, danger is this prosperity! A DANCE
that has been fatal in the history o
monarchies and republics in the past
The shores of history have had strewl
upon them the wrecks of nations ant
governments that have been swampet
in the waters of national prosperity
Prosperity engenders pride. Success
produces self-glory and self-laudation
and in the midst of the sunlight mel
, forget the Giver of it all. We are in
, dustrious, and ingenious, and practica
: as a people. and there is danger of ou
Incorporating our ingenuity into tn
deity that we shall call to preside owe
our national welfare la
The one great thing that we need
, do as people is to reafirm our unite
$ and popular, and universal belief in Il
doctrine of personal and ever prese
| God. managing the affairs both of il
dividuals and of nations in the interes
, of both present and future. and befo
whom we are ready in constant homai
2 to bow, and to whom in reverence :,
q submit the guidance of all our way
q Standing to-day upon the Plymout
s Rock of national success and prosperit
d it would be both wise and a gratefi
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