The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-04-20
Bill Arp ON Brains and Muscle,

Somebody said that "the juice Of
liberty was the blood Of the brave,n
or words to that effect, aud so the
juice Of prosperity is the sweat OF
the laboring map. was rumina-
ting over this the other day as l
looked at a gang OF men digging
in au iron mine. Machinery is q
good thing, but there are many
things that nothing but the human
hand aud the human arm can do.
Machines can't dig ore nor shovel
dirt OH q railroad, nor pick cotton,
nor split rails, nor build a fence,
nor pull fodder nor load u wagon.
Machines may make brick, but they
can't lay 'em in wall, nor frame a
house, nor plaster ii, nor nail the
shingles on. There are y thousand
things that muscle has got to do,
and will always have to do, and the
time will never come when all men
can play the gentleman or live BY
brains alone. It's contrary to rea-
sou aud scripture. Brains rank
muscle, but muscle Is the most
honest. Brains are tricky and shif.
ty and puts on many airs. Muscle
does the work and brains gets the
benefit, and it struts around like
big Ike. There was a railroad built
not long ago and brains took the
job at sixty thousand dollars a mile
aud sub.let 1t for forty Thousand,
and that man sub.let it again for
thirty thousand, and then it was
cut up into sections AMI let ut 2Sc.
a cubic yard, aud then sub let
Mt DC, and the lust man hired Ia
borers to work for u dollar a day,
and one man would grade six yards
in u day aud take pay IN goods at
one hundred per cent profit. So
the work cost actually about ten
cents u yard. Sweat aud muscle
got ten cents and brains about iifty,
and that's about the way with most
OF the work that farmers and me.
chanics aud laboriug men do. Ii
the tariff protects the manufdctu
rer be puts the protection IN his
pocket and hires his labor at the
saine old price. 1t is protection to
capital only. The poor are kept
poor and the rich get richer, and
that is the reason why labor is SC
unpopular. 1t don't pay. Our
young men are ambitious. They
come home from school aud from
college aud begin to look round for
u living, and they see that muscle
don't pay, ar d they begin to draw
on their brains. They 60 to ira
ding and scheming or hunting for
an Office or clerking in store OF
bossing some little job, or they
study law or mediciue, or hau
round sewing machines, but they
won't work. A smart, slltty mat
can make more money in one da,
at trading than in six months al
hard work, but when he has done i
he has not added one dollar to th'
value Of anything. He has bene
fitted nobody but himself. WhaI
be has made somebody has lost, ant
after all the profits of trading ant
spcculating generally come out o
the laboriug Inan-the producer ant
the manufactures, sweat and t0i
! bear the burdens, aud like the fablet
Atlas carry the world on thei
shoulders. Meu get rich and pow
crful trading In stocks and bond
and railroads, and cornering whea
! and pork, and they splurge arouu'
awhile, but sooner or later the.
have to let go, aud / reckon the,
have mighty little comfort on thei
last bed When they think how littl
they have done for humanity
Well, some of 'em about that tim
! do give off q lot Of money to Co
: Ieges, asylums aud churches, an
expect to get credit for it up you
|, der on St. Peters books, but the
won't. 1t is q sort of conscienc
money and comes too late; q Iittl
too late--they kept 1t to the las
/, and squeezed it tight aud w0ul
hnSe kent IL longer IL they couI(