New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-15
RUSKIy TO THE W0aKIyGNIM.

EOTS Cidriyfrl.
| As tIunps are nowadays. yOu LnOw any pretty
| lady in the Elysian fields OF PARIS who can set
rband OF u new color III her cap IN taking way
! forthwith sets few thousands 81 Lionnalst
! spinners and dyers lurlOuSly weaving ubands OF
! like stuff. and washing them with Ike dye. And II
! due time the new French edict reaches also yOul
sturdy En- glish mind, and the steeples OF Coventry
ring in the reign of the elect rlband aud the Ely
sian fields of Spta, or Whatever other hospIce now
| shelters the weavers head, bcstr themselves az
couling To the French pattern. and bedaub them
! selves with the French dye: and the pretty lady
! thinks herself your everlasting benefactress and
| little short angel sent from heaven to feed
You with miraculous mama, ana yOu are free
BrltOns that rule the waves ana free FrenChmen
that lead the universe of COURSE but you have not
a bit of land You can stand On-withOut some-
bOdy's lcaVe-nOr house Tor your children that
they can't be turned out Of nor bit OF bread tor
their breakfast tomorrow, but on the chance of
some mere wards of riband being wanted. Nor
have you any notion that the pretty lady herself
be or the slightest uSe 10 YOU, except as a con-
sumner oil ribands; what Goa made her t0r-yOu do
NOT ask still less she, what God made you for.
How many are there OF YOU, wonder, laEdess,
roOlrSs, fOOdlcsS, unless, tor such work as they
choose 10 put you 10, the upper classes provide you
with cellars in Lille, gaSs-cageS IN lIallun Court
" the strength to smile" How many OF you tell
me-and what your united hands and wits are
worth, at your own reckoning
Trade unions OF Engand-trade armies OF Chris
tendon, what's the roll-call of you. and what part
OF 10, have Won hitherto. in this holy Christian
land OF Your fathers Is not That inheritance TO
be claimed and the biIthright of 1t no less than
the death right Will you not determine where
YOU may be Christianity bred, before You set your
blockhcad Parliamr nts 10 debate where YOU may
he christianity buried iyOur priests also all
a-Squabble about that matter As hear as If any
ground could be consecrated that hal the bones OF
raScalS IN IT, or prOtane where good man slept
But how The earth that yOn tread may be conse-
Grated to You. and the roofs that shade your
breathing sleep ana the deeds that sou ITO with the
breath of life, yet strengthening hand and heart
that it Is your business to learn. II you know
not and tins. mine to tell YOU II you Will learn.
BE it far from me to speak seornfully of trade.
Nv fathcF-whOsc charter OF freedom of London
town | keep i'll my Brentwood treasury beside
missa and crOss-sOld good wine. and had. over his
modest door in Blllitcr-st., no huSh But he grew
his wine before he sold ii and could answer tor il
with his head that no rotten grapes icrnentcd III his
vats and no chemists salt cttryeSccd in his
bottles. BE you also iIadestuen--in your place
and in your right but be you primarily eIOwers
makers aItiicers, inventors. of things good and
precious. What talk yOu of wagesf Whose is the
wealth OF the world but yours! Whose is the
virtue DO you mean to go on forever. leaving
your wealth 10 be consumed by the idle, ANA your
virtues to Ice Knocked by the vile
The wealth of the world IL yours; even yOuI
common rant and rabble of economists tell you that
-" no wealth wlthOuti industry" Who roJS YOU OF
il, then, or begulles YOU Whose fault is il, YOU
clothmakeTs. that any English child in IN RAGS
Whose fault Is II. yOu shOcmake,e. that the street
harlOts mincc III hlgh-heeled shoes. and your own
babes paddle barefoot H. the street slime Whose
fault is 10. sou bron2cd huSbandmen, that through
all your furIOwCd England, children are diving of
famine Primarily, of course, il is your clergy
mems and masters faull: bu. also in this VouI
own, that you never educate any OF your children
with the earnest object OF enabling them u see their
way ont Oi this, not ny rising above their fathers
business. but 10y setting IN nrer What WAS aInis, i'm
1t also IN this Your own that mona of You who do
rlSc above your business ever seem to keep tho
memory OF what wrong they have known or
suffered; nor rs masters, SET better exansle than
Others.