Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-20

socety-of one class or occupation TO tnt
other classics this Ignorance Of each otleIi
| hopes and fears, sorruws and ioya -wllict
create the social and political troubles which
| sn frequently convulHe sDriety. and lead tC
the coercve and harsh Textures OF legislation
! which i'll the end prove such poor substitutes
| for even handed justice.
| Trace the history Of nations or OF iudiyid-
| uals and there can scarcely be fonud public
/ war or private quarrel Which was not tho
| result of II mutual insundoraiA Anling Of the
relative facts OR the relative intentions Of the
| two parties lgnorailce Of each other lends
TO misunderstanding and from this to blind
and bitter conflict il short and natural step
and settles no question Of right but merely
decides on which side are the "heayieSt
| batallions." The Nolksfest is intended to let
| the people know each other, to exhibit the
| progress made by each i'll his own path of
| labor, to show the dependencies of the vari-
| ous lines of occupation and industry upon
each other-so that the great fact of a whole
some and friendly co operation for the good
of all may be brought and kept before tho
eyes of each individual worker
Therefore | view this festival as having
important public functions, and containing
i'll its simple and pleasant oDseryanees the
germs for high usefulness in the solution of
the difficult problems which confront civil
lied governments everywhere.
every we'll ordered family, and every we'll
ordered community-is useful industry
whether of the hands or of the head, or of
both. Mans nature makes labor pleasant
| do not mean employments that arc repul
sivc or over work that breaks down health
but creative and productive induatry brings
joy to the worker and i'll the sight Of the work
of his ows hands II happy recompensc ii
found
- for his heart is in his work.
And the heart doath good unto evcry act
In former days, when the scale Of manu-
facture was limited, and before machinery
had no 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 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
handlabor, and the immense scale to which
manufacture has now been expanded, has
changed all these personal relations sand
severed the daily lives Of the employer and
his Work-people, and an estrangement in
personal habits ana intercourse has natur-
ally grown up. which keeps them t9o much
apart, and creates an ignorance OF each
others actual condition, interests and feel
ing. which is the source of serious mis-
understanding. and too often Of i'll feeling.
This is greatly to be regretted, and hope
the Yoksfest may tend in some degree to
counteract this eyil, and allow opportunity
for u greater degree of personal acquain-
tance, friendly inquiries and mutual under
standing between the laLorer 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:
The home pressed question of the age can find
No answer in the catch-words of the lind
Leaders of the blind. solution there is none,
Save in the golden rule OF Christ alone.
The primeyal decree unto man, "In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" is no
longer TO be considered a curse, but a bless
ing for it establishes the true condition of
happiness, and divorces idleneHs from con-
tent, an links together human industry and
human happiness in indissoluble association.
'As the fear Of God is the beginning of
wisdom" so the aseertainment of and ohedi
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 Il
| simple and religious obedience to great
| natural laws.
| The Nolksfest helps to disclose to lis, in its
multfarious composition, the progress of the
various industries, and sets them i'll compari-
son before mems eyes.
| II il 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 Onl
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 tho various and we'll
diversified industries of any community is-of
| great value to each of them, AS it il the best
| form of advertisement for each, and informs
| all of the sources of success. This begets
the true spirit of benelfcent commerce among
men, teaching them the habit of exchanges,
based upon profit to both sides. This is the
| true and happy spirit of cooperation that not
only advances community to wealth and i'll
tluence, but irradiates every class Of occupa-
ton with content, and gives happiness to
| every household where useful industry il the
| presiding genius.
| A few years ago at one OF the Oldest seats
| of learning i'll the Union | took occasion in
addressing the graduating class at Yale Col
| lego to recommend TO them the cherlshing of
| all worthy and honorable traditions of our
| people, including those of the more ancient
| homes Of their ancestors in other lands. For
| seek the largest and the freest importation
| from abroad OF every thing that will elevate,
| advance and strengthen our national char
acter and liberallze our government Every
| noble example, every worthy social custom,
| every preccpt of wisdom and morality,
should be gathered and interviewer on the
| crown of our great ruler i'll this land-puhliC
opinion. And il should be our study to make
the American 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 framewC rk of political
mechanism perfectly adapted to the great
| ends for which our constitution was assigned
| to secure Justice among men under the fornis
| of popular government
Popular education is the great emancipation
and i'll the free public schools of this com.
| munity ample opportunity is given to all tC
| Obtain the rudlments OF learning upon which
| self education may subsequently expand the
faculties into the highest realms of scholar
| ship. Let it be also remembered that the
entire proceeds Of the celebration we now
| inaugurate is to be added to the fund of the
German American school of this city,
a reflection that gives additional
force and and interest to the occasion
| And all this does not relieve the parent
from his or her duty of home training. but
rather encourages and stimulates them to
prepare their children for the important
| duties of American citizenship, to give then
that religious and industrial training that
public schools cannot be expected to give, Rnt
which is the main assistant in creating thai
Independent and self-respecting manhood
which is the true cornerstone of our Repub
lican system. l rejoice that to-day VT
have adopted a German custom anC
arc holding q Nolksfest in Delaware
As citizen of the United states have neye
favored any appeal TO the prejudices of race
or nativity in the Origin of our cltizens; the
native and adopted citizen stand on the SAINT
plane of political right before the law, whicl
should make no distinction nor recogniz
any lines of demarcatlon among the people
but pity the man aud am greatly disposed
to dlstrust his heart or his head who does no
thrill with the memories of all that wa
glorious and enuobling in the histories O
his forefathers. ~
Two thousand years agoa Latin poet sang
",'oelum non amman mutant
Qui trans mare currunt.'
The ky they change but not the soul,
Who sail beyond The sea, .-.-.
The republic of letters has no boundaries
but her citizens arc freely admitted an
honored everywhere From walls OF III
study look down, the face of Shakespeare
Milton, Burke and Burns, and Goethe. Sehille
and Humboldt, and Fenelon and Noltalre an
Marshall, Webster and Emerson, and
hail them all, 'the Lords of thought I
whom my homage and my gratitude is due
We catch the echoes of these grand sou
and thank Heaven for sending such men o
earth nor pause to ask in what part OF til
world they first saw light.
All that is noble aud worthy of Germa