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ElOquence ofLabor.

California Scientific Press.
/ Eloquence to be effectual must
be impressive. 1t must, to awaken
sympathy. possess magnetic in
fuence combined with essential
verities. 1t must, while appealing
to thought, be able to arouse i'm
pulse. 1t must be based upon
facts and be instigated by the
necessity of the occasion. These
are the leading qualifications to
make eloqucnce productive of the
desired results. Its minor fea-
lures are but subdivisions of its
above enumerated concomitants.
All these requisites, and even
more, are possessed and continual
ly practiced by labor.
1t is impressive because It shows
the result of its efforts. 1t speaks
in language that cannot be mis-
understood, of the benefits which
it is ever and always competent
to obtain. 1t shows that its acts
are causes which conduce to the
accomplishment of its desires and
its designs. P r-a ..
In appealing to sympathy with
its unmistakable truths, it points
TO its futile creations and to its ad-
ditions to the wealth and the well
fare of nations, and awakens the
desire to emulate its examples in
so meritorious a cause. 1t shows
how the world is made productive
and its barren place caused to be
come fruitful. 1t tells ofthe banish-
ment of sterility from the soil and
the installation of a prolific epoch
in. its stead. 1t arouses the ener-
gy of the agriculturist and nerves
him to more strenuous exertions
TO derive increased yields from the
lands. 1t incites the artisan to
the creation of new mechanical de-
vices through whose assistance
widely extended manufactures are |
disseminated. |
1t engenders impulses by its
bold and vigorous instances ofsuc-
cessful manipulations, and appeals
to the investigating and thoughtful
mind by its array of incontroverti-
bic facts regarding the benefits it
is able to confer upon mankind.
3 Its eloquence never ceases; from
the'rising of the sun to the going
down thereof, its Rtterances are
with all their oonvinc-
ing argument. Itslanguage never
descends from sublimity of con-
ception, or fails to the vain, friy-
olousi or futile. 1t adapts itself to
the comprehension of the unletter-
ed; and fascinates. the scholastic
with the purity of its diction. 1t
holds out no wild inducements, it
utters no falsehoods, it deals not
IN sophistry and it abhors prevar-
ication. It breathes no. insinua-
tons, but it ever gives voice to de-
cided and plain asseptiens.
Its most potent argqm ents.are Mt
tered in its moments of most earn
est toll While striving to its ut
most tension it is most convincing. .
Its proofs are omnippesent, self
evident and irrefutable. 1t recog-
nizes facts and ignores postula- :
lion. Its voice rises whenever the
sound of labor breaks upon-the 1
stiffness of the air, and iwhiie toll
continues it never relapse into ST 3
eneso Each deep drawn breath Q
he worker Is It's intonation ofargp-
nent, while the result of his exer- |
ion is its correlative proof. Its
,loeueRoe.is generated in the mar .
,ow apartmentof the halfsfamished
ieamtress by the faint tone of the
,loth-piercing needle, as we'll as G
~ the rushing sound of the most
and 9extenslyefs4n in the f
Itellar universe. 1t finds it abil-
ty in the silent brain thought of
he inventor, through whose tele-
,honic power it causes itself TO be 6
leard by the people of nations. 4
tits igod-like in its power, for it
s omnIpotent in its persuasive n
less; equally SO in its verify, for 4
ruth is its solid basis. Since the
of creation It has. never
,eeh SILENT Its tones pel'vsded a
pace With harmony ere man came .
INTO existence, for 1t gave voice to
he stars when they sang together b
heir rhythmic hymn Ofjoy and h
Idulation. And now that man
Ioes exist, it e1erts itself for the h
ofhis welfare, and all :,
is utterings are for the advance :
nent of his prosperity and to his -.
'epeft if he will but heed purport
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