The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1883-09-22

no noI mean eHploymsntS JhaI are repuls-
i've, or over-work that breaks down health
but creative and productive industry brings
10 yto the worker, and in the sight of the
work of his own hands happy recompense
is found
For his heart is iu his work,
And the heart doeth good unto every act"
In former days, when the scale of manu-
facture was limited, and before machinery
had so displaced manual labor, the journey
man and apprentice in every trade were in
mates of The family of their employer. They
sat at the same table with him, and slept I'M
der the same roof; and in this way personal
intercourse was maintained, and personal
sympathy and knowledge of each other were
permitted: The progress of invention, the
substitution of machinery for hand-labor,
has now been expanded, has changed all
these personal relations, and severed the lives
of the employer and his work-people, and an
estrangement in personal habits and inter
course has naturally grown up, which keeps
them too much apart, and creates an ignor-
ests and feeling, which is the source of SER
ious misunderstanding, and too often of ill
feeling.
This is greatly to be regretted, and hope
the Volksfest may tend in some degree to
counterfeit this evil, and allow opportunity
for greater degree of personal acquaint-
ance, friendly inquiries and mutual under
standing between the laborer and the CAPT
talist And in this way assistance may be
had to make clearer the question of just
participation in the products of their joint
labors.
Nothing is today more important as a
public question than this, and none is more
complex and difficult of solution. 1t is Whit
tier who wisely says:
The home pressed question of the age can find
No answer in the catch words of the blind
Leaders of the blind. Solution there is none,
Save in the golden rule of Christ alone.
The primeval decree unto man, STU the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, - is
no longer to be considered curse, but
blessing; for it establishes the true condi-
ton of happiness in indssuluble associa-
ton.
Gas the feaf of God is the beginning of
wisdom" so the ascertainment of and obed-
fence to these laws ofour moral nature will
be found the safest and surest guides in our
political and social arrangements, and it
would not be difficult to trace many of the
SORROWS and troubles which befall human
governments to the attempt of their rulers
to absolve themselves from the eanons of
simple and religious obedience to great nat
ural laws. H
The Volksfest helps to disclose to us, in
its multifarious composition, the progress OF
the various industries, and sets them in com
parson before mems eyes.
1t is an old saying--in my profession of
the law : ''The next best thing to knowing
law, is to know where to look for the law
you do not know And so one may say of
all your requirements, intellectual, moral,
or physical, that next to their possession,
the thing to be desired is to know how and
where our wants can be supplied.
The exhibition of the various and we'll
diversified industries ofany community is OF
form of advertisement for each, and informs
all of the sources of success. This begets
the true spirit of benificent commerce among
men, teaching them the habit of exchanges,
based upon profit to both sides This is the
true and happy spirit of CO operation that not
only advances community to wealth aid in
fiuence, but irradiates every class of occupa-
tion with content, and gives happiness to ev-
cry household, where useful industry is the
presiding genius.
4 few years ago at one of the oldest scat
of learning in the Union took occasion in
addressing the graduate class at Yale Col
lege to recommend to them the cherishing OF
all worthy and honorable traditions of our
people, including those of the more ancient
homes of their ancestors in other lands For
l seek the largest and the freest Importation
from abroad of every thing that will elevate
advance and strengthen our national char
acter, and liberalize our government. Every
noble example, every worthy social custom,
every precept of wisdom and morality, should
be gathered and interviewer on the crown OF
our great ruler in this land-public opinion.
And it should be our study to make the A
merican idea of government as high as any
known to mans nature and aspirations.
There can be no more worthy subject of con
temptation and of social and political action
and we have happily a framework of polti-
cal mechanism perfectly adapted to the
great ends for which our constitution was
assigned, to secure justice among men under
the forms of popular government.
Popular education is the great emancipa.
tor and in the free public schools of this
community ample opportunity is given to all
to obtain the rudiments of learning upon
which self-education may subsequently ex-
pand the faculties into the highest realms of
scholarship. Let it also be remembered
that the entire proceeds o. the celebration
we now inaugurate to are be added to the