The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-16
Eioquence Of Labor.

E1oquence to be effectual must be i'm
pressive. 1t must, to awaken sympathy,
possess magnetic influence combined
with essential verities. 1t must, while
appealing to thought, be able to arouse
impulse. 1t must be based upon facts
and be instigated by the necessity of
the occasion. These are the leading
qualifications to make eloquence pro-
ductiye of the desired results. Its mi
nor features are but subdivisions of its
above enumerated concomitants All
these requisites, and even more, are
possessed and continually practiced by
labor.
1t is impressive because it shows the
results of its efforts. 1t speaks in a
language that cannot be misunderstood
of the benefits which it is ever and al
ways competent to obtain. 1t shows
that its acts are causes which conduce
to the accomplishments of its desires
and its designs.
In appealing to sympathy with its
unmistakable truths, it points to its
utile creations and to its additions to
the wealth and the welfare of nations,
and awakens the desire to emulate its
examples in so meritorious cause. 1t
shows how the world is made product
i've and its barren places caused to be-
come fruitful. 1t tells of the banish-
ment of sterility from the soil and the
installation of prolific epoch in its
stead. 1t arouses the energy of the
agriculturist and nerves him to more
strenuous exertions to derive increased
yields from the land. 1t incites the
artisan to the creation of new mechani-
cal devices through whose assistance
widely extended manufactures are dis
seminated.
1t engenders impulse by its bold and
vigorous instances of successful manip-
ulations, and appeals to the investigat-
ing and thoughtful mind by its array of
incontrovertible facts regarding the
benefits it is able to confer upon man.
kind.
Its eloquence never ceases; from the
rising of the sun to the going down
thereof, its utterances are continued
with all their convincing arguments.
Its language never descends from sub
Unity of conception, or falls to the vain
frivolous or futile. 1t adapts itself to
the comprehension of the unlettered,
and fascinates the scholastic with the
purity of it's diction. 1t holds out no
wild inducements, it utters no false
hoods, it speaks only of wel-proven
truths. 1t asserts no false dogmas, it
deals not in sophistry and it abhors
prevarication. 1t breathes no insinua-
tons, but it ever gives voice to decided
and plain assertions.
Its most potent arguments are utter
ed in its moments of most earnest toll.
While striving to its utmost tension it
is most convincing. Its proofs are ON
nipresent, self-evident and irrefutable.
1t recognizes facts and ignores postu-
lation. Its voice rises whenever the
sound of labor breaks upon tho stiffness
of the air, and while toll continues it
never relapses into silence. Each deep
drawn breath Of tho worker is its inton-
alton of argument, while the result of
his eXertion is its correlative proof. Its
e1oquence is generated in the narrow
apartment of the half-famiShed seam
stress by tho faint tone of the cloth
piercing needle, as well as in the rush
ing sound of the most remote and eS-
tensive sun in the stellar universe. 1t
finds its audibility in the silent brain
thought of the inventor, through whose
telephone power it causes itself to be
heard by the people of nations.
1t is god-ike in its power, for it is
omnipotent in its persuasiyeness;
equally so i'll its verify, for truth is its
solid basis. Since Inc lnclplency OF
creation il has never been silent. It's
tones pervaded space with their har-
mony ere man came into existence, for
it gave voice to the stars when they
sang together their rhythmic hymn of
JOY and adulation. And now that man
does exist, it eXerts itself for the pro-
motion of his welfare, and all it's utter
ings are for the advancement of his
prosperity and to his benefit if he will
but heed purport of them.