The daily gazette., 1883-09-17

had so displaced manual labor, the Journey
man and apprentice In every trade were in
mates of the family of their employer.
They sat az the same table with him, and
slept under the same roof; and in this way
personal intercourse was maintained, and
personal sympathy and knowledge of each
other were permitted. The progress of in
Vention, the substitution Of machinery for
hand labor, and the immense scale to which
manu- u1acture has DOW been expanded, has
changed all these personal relations, and
severed the daily lives of the employer and
his work-people, and an estrangement In
personal habits and intercourse has natur-
ally grown up, which keeps them too much
apart, and creates an ignorance Of each
others actual condition, interests and feel
ings, which is the source of serious mis-
understanding, and too often of i'll feeling.
This is greatly to be regretted, and hope
the Volksiest may tend In some degree to
counteract this evil, and allow opportunity
for q greater degree of personal acquain-
tance, 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 the just
participation in the products of their joint
labors.
Nothing is to-day more important as a
public question than this, and none is more
complex and difficult of solution. 1t is
Whittier who wisely says
svThe home oppressed 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, "In the
sweat.of thy face shalt thou eat bread"-is
no longer to be considered curse, but q
blessing; for 1t establishes the true condition
of happiness, and divorces idleness from
content, and links together human industry
and human happiness in indissoluble associ-
alton.
"As the fear of God is the beginning of
wisdom" so the ascertainment of and obedi-
ence to these laws of our 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 befal human
governments to the attempt of their rulers
to absolve themselves from the canons of
simple and religious obedience to great
natural laws.
The volksfest helps to disclose to us, in
its multifarious composition, the progress
/ of the various industries, and sets them in
comparison 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 our 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 of any community is
OF great value to each of them, as 1t is the
best form of advertisement for each, and in
forms all of the sources ofsuccess. This be-
gets the true spirit of benefcent commerce
among men, teaching them the habit OF ex-
changes, based upon profit to both sides.
This is the true and happy spirit ofco-opera-
tion that not only advances community to
wealth and influence, but irradiates every
class of occupation with content, and gives
happiness TO every household, where useful
industry is the presiding ger GUS.
A few years ago at one of the Oldest seati
| of learning in the Union took occasion II
addressing the graduating class at Yale Col
lege to recommend to them the cherishing
OF all worthy and honorable traditions ofoul
people, including those of the more ancient
homes of their ancestors in other l-nds. Fol
seek the largest and the treest importation
from abroad of everything 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-pub.
lie opinion. And 1t should be our study tC
make the American idea of government at
high as any known to mans nature and as
pirations. There can be no more worthy
subject of contemplation and of social and
politician action, and we have happily &
framework of political mechanism perfectly
adapted to the great ends for which oul
constitution was assignl d, 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 thi
community ample opportunity is given Il
all to obtain the rudiments of learning upol
which self-educa Jon may subseq uently ex
pand the faculties into the highest realms o
scholarship. And all this does not relievt
the parent from his or her duty of hom'
training, but rather encourages and stimu
lates them to prepare their children Tor tn
important duties of American citizenship
TO give them that religious and industria
training that public schools cannot be ex
: pected to give, and which is the main as
sistant in creating that Independent AM
! self-respectirg manhood, which is the tru
} cornerstone of OR Republican system.
! rejoice that to-day we have adopted Ger
t man custom and are holding Volksfest |
t Dels ware. As citizen of the United State
I have never favored any appeal to the preju
Clices of race or nativity In the origin of ou
citizens; the native and adopted eitiz9
s stand on the same plane of political righ
: before the law, which should make no dil
e tinction nor recognize any lines of demarcs
1 ton among the people, but pity the mar
j and am greatly disposed to distrust his heal
e or his head, who does not thrill with th
! | memories of all that was glorious and 81
l nobling in the histories of his forefathers.
Two thousand years ago Latin poet sans
"Coelum non amman mutant
Qui trans-mare ourrunt."
{ The sky they change but not the soul,
f Who sail beyond the sea.
The republic of letters has no boundaries
/, but her citizens are freely admitted an
= honored everywhere. From the walls of m
: study look down, the face of Shakespear
= | Milton, Burke and Burns, and sGeeth,
! Schiller and Humboldt, and Fenelon an
! Voltaire and Marshall, Webster and Eme
! son, and hail them all, "the Lords
thought" to whom my homage and n
!, gratitude is due.
. We catch the echoes of these grand sou
! : ard thank Heaven for sending such men {
= earth; nor pause to ask In what part of Il
i world they first saw light.
All that is noble and worthy of Germa
:. feeling, tradition and custom, hope to 81
< Incorporated with our American mode
: | livin1 and I trust in their homes In tn