Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-06

performed in the kitchen and in the par
lor; in the school and in the college; upon
the farm and in the office; from the pull
pit and through the public press; in our
literature and poetry: in the hustlngS anu
on the platform. This great work Is 10
educate the popular mind into the con-
yiction that the proudeSt and noblest
position in this country Is honest. 1ntelil-
GENT LABOR. That idleness is closely allied
to crime. We must not only theorize
that labor is honorable and manly, but
we must apply theory in practice. When
the son graduates his school or college,,
settle him npon a farm and let MN De-
come Il skillful and successful farmer;
or if he has fitting a%ptitudeS, let MN De
come a smith, Il carpenter, a machlhlst,
a builder, an inventor. BY all means,
see to it, that he shuns the professions OF
mercantile pursuits; ninety-fve per cent.
of all such adventures are failures.
Let YOUR daughters be educated in
house Loldduties,a as well as in her college,
and so rear her, that after her graduation,
when she would |leave the ancestral tree,
to become the light of another home, that
she will pass by the dtvotees OF fashion;
oilers: the hangers on to the professions,
or the would be merchant, and happily,
trustiDoly, place her hand, soft and dell
cate it NAV be, as the dimple ripping
hand of infancy, into the broad palm OF
honest, manly, noble toll, there to ablde
and rest secure, when the business world
shall reel and stagger like a drunken man
amid the storms of financial CONFUSION.
Then labor should magnify itself IL
another way. Her devotees should b.
enfranchised, and be made eligible to TIT
high offices of the State and Nation. IL l.
true, they now are so i'll theory but not IL
practice. \ lawyer has been Preslaen
ever since the death Of Washington. o
senate chambers and halls OF Legislation
as well as executive chairs, are anu nav
been filed bv others than laborers, an
so long has this been the case, that
seems to be the political law, and the ca
pable and, ambitious young man,, startin
out in life, feels compelled to avoid labor
to avoid Acknowledgement.
This should be changed; let all inter
c>tS he fully represented in all the publ
offices, by persons directly engaged i
, each of them. Give labor her quota G
representation i'll the public offices; the
will she be respected and honored an
draw to it the trueSt and the best OF til
land. Then will the nation know that i
its hour of peril a Cincinnatus may b
found at the plow; Il Roger Sherman 8
the ~SlOclnaker'S bench; Il WaShlnSto
upon his farm.
of all the industries, | am inclined t
confess, contrary to the experience OF
whole life, the noblest and the most al
t~ractiye is the agricultural. l al
now, like the sailor, at the close of Il Ion
tumultuOuS and perllouS voyage, lonSlr
and praying for land.
And now, repeating the words l used
tbiS rity IN a like occasion. thrice
wears ago., | close: "With full apprecia
ton OF the intelligence, morality and Pr
trioti>m of the American people and Il Ii,
in9 confidence in and an answering RI
lance upon the goodness, care and pre-
lection of the God of our fathers, we
one, will declare this government mu
be perpetual"