The Portland daily press., 1885-07-01
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Ihe reason wny
slowly Is because it ms
Inc poor, the ignorant, the dow.
saIIWays saying to the rich and educaten
tScuiiately 700 often, but with a voice VIII,
tate me- no tdeIyIhg II You advance YOU must
lhe great men, the skill of the great nTo3s u
oi,e IP!nliosophy of the great sages that moie
clVlnzatlon There are no orators 10 1,lt1ne da'
as Cicero, no philosophers or
;s5ien m;Iss95iilen greater than Aristotle or Plato Yet
rk Ir1kkdilzation was not Of their day buf of onrs
nc ,stniilIignI ~ OF knowledge for us has oot hs
Soiu tne hliltops. The valleys of TO- ,fsys 90 90
thew teem IyitS as as We're the hills of yore, but
yUa an l Inventions are subject to the same Ia,s
ba we tt HWe tnem not to one but to many Me-,
tho esS .uus t lar created no greater thing fhan
the the na1sa ss1aan engine. With that invention
tne popular mind. To him alone fbat ason4 ~
9eneIactlon is attributed: iust as tbs SO, sraas
ueuT OF England under the Puritans Is afftr;h
are false alike 'ions VI praise
MA; man ald not leap at one bound. from the
oliniinerlnE Tea Kettle to the roaring staar,
s eiisIhe. from Hero to James Watt 'vvo.t r,a.n
and ", liVehtors whose names are known
ana ana thousands of whom we know notb;nd
each struggling for the one stem in aS,.ang'
tRHosslDie, 10 ms age and time until aFtor,
thousands of years the full grown Iooonee SreeI
hundred eGGfboy fboys thousand strong, whirls eight
II more ore capaclous than Hero lived in. ali '''es
T I SG;n1llIe.t ;,.,.nit.t OF which Hero never Dire
~ ~ II Inventions each man helps his sncc
Par;s Ia IIa1guafd never been summont
Z Tall TaIis oy Carnot he might never have
Vaueanson's machine. and minbte
loom. io' AoI MS IaL
40 Not @ only does one invention have 10 wait
upon uon afbnotner fbe but all inventors have to wait
hPp9 hhP94 the progress of the world Railroads
nad 70 wait until enough men conld afFJ -
ids idsaysel, s until men We're civilized enonSb 10 10
let them alone Only short time aSo son,o W
efd's bought bv mere tSa built in China but when
t pIotHipliy torn up. The stride from fbe ox
caIt G,i; 10 the palace car is too great for tba
Sl SSIihalnan 10 take in day. The ocean oaLio
liops Iiop 70 of wait until there We're two score mil
nad James Graham Bell come over viii nc nc,
+ + ligrLn l9 Fathers and invented the telenhone
~ ,,,os,9 M9ulG nave been an idle TOW. N fool .
NO., ftI MIN nyrlads of people in it able In
telephone wbat Ibo1iaIs = year each to make the
tba IN lame, James Watts time, and Just before all
Ia af elitlve 4e minds were intent on the proh
bafa telfi OF oI steam. Why was this then. and NOT
t6e ind,str;o, t3u can see see. why, if you examine
ypocn. ,.oea Ihey had reached the point of pros
s5ess Wnere only the steam engine ,,soS - naPdS Pt9
,f ~ .b uias countless wealth out of the boNveIe
tint tbe Ina., vi, 70 make fabrics which should
h.4s- 1g
has ,aas ~ America we first reached theSe ,yor -
,,a,t ,vrati III improvements in agricultural imnle
io,, 70 Willeh nave revOutionized the cuItive
,rair;as rDi ~ 'ne soIlf 1t was because ouryast
Tot n's1 to9 were beyond the hoe and the rai%e
So5 only We're inventive minds tnrned ed ~ tha
M ,MaoDlVni, Dut the graSping capitalist and ~
'tTel ~ idIiner were behind urging them on
ra o1uay 81 ,,:o thousands and thousands of mi
re re at work ON electricity. A hundred n
go you might have counted tben, L,'itly
,aT1d Ill "A hundred years have made
,,n,,s,L tSn ~ enough 70 have electric lights
at;as W Ilake their cities blaze with iIhni
ifsSHa. iantni Iney can afford and mnsf have
leetrlc motors Electric motors are snre rs' t
dni 1hS' bye and bye we shall harness tbe
over of Niagara. i'"anuiSe Oh the
ro'la 0ua progress is slow because we have 70
len are m so sue uaTk. we all live on hone
- fo't.iI SaItn one man so rich, so suceesSfvi
- toI s tsuulate, that he would not need oT ~,
,iei4a DO cuisuTe and religion to keep him from
i'm no " fnrthe Te We're sure there was for
~ ddis olp Keeps us all in the harness Wbati;
~ ~ a.a PlosIesS De slow? The race has ali t;na
'ifie II H. Each problem gets grappled with
nitaI n,,i w, LOOK at the battle between
bPe,", ber ID anu aDor Each must have tba
ne lleI anu yet the struggle seems nernot,'aI .ae
S,vth ~ iu'eRt ~ lnaenlnes and get rid Of tbree
'i,o,, unslls OF your labor and To- the insatjabIe
ore Of tbe ueinands more, and moS s SvsS
1Oui lldcHlne and \.
oor N, must must come back If labor s6onId Il - -
! 10y dapltalIt would destroy itself If can IS :
~ ia eReats st labor it cheats itself The az y
niod rHu Ior capital is perpetual and will not he
i,iSu, u S,i,, Inc great Cambria works sDepd
. O., hundred thousand dollars every vear sp04o ~
,IS ~ ABREAST urea OF the improvements In its brs ~
ssf' sSf gnns Ihe government today wants to build mild
~, ~ she pest establishment i'm tbis
f6ra ifnSIy twelve hundred thousand doliars lars
,ote ,ot a .SStroke of work could he done
d az ", Iliil does not hesitate to fling asida
y ybi or hundred thousand dollars Wort5 f6ios os
IIfinery ~ iy 70 put in new machines wbicb
NE nc product fraction Of cent . vsrd mliiCn o
ina or less Multiply such figures ~ 'HI tboSi 90
q nuFf4tILedS, af tLdS, by thousands and Won GET sono'
8 9 NJ 1he enormous consumption Of capitai
RFoolem of capital and labor seems pii%i liS,.
=, Hach tI wants its fair share of the nrodnnt
y y taen fa Is it that there is not settemen,
= ", LOT LOT alIg Simply because men do not
,M ~ Wnat the fair share is. It win NOT no do
He I've capital too little, otherwise men ov VII ~
'iiei accumulate nor risk capital II wi
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