, 1886-04-04

themselvs with opium; and they put
in all their time with patience and
continuity. They have an ambition b rise
in the world, and they can live on the least
possible quantity becauss they administer 1t
with more skill and more patience and more
morality. and that Is the source OF their
superiority, Now II all the education Of the
Yankee does not teach him how TO beat the
Chinnman in economy and in the skill Of
living, what Is education WORTH The time
win be by and by when the under and cheap
workers Of society will have been taught
this, and thsy viii maintain the relative diff
ference, and all thess conclusions AMI persa-.
cutions will gradually die out as mons
knowledge increases. But II Il very natural
Mt the present stage of progress that it should
happen, Us it has happened and is happening
Men grow, then, in morality, in intelli-
gence and in taste and In social dignity, and
it dennnds more to supply them than TO snip
ply the mere animal man. You may expect.
therefore, that, as society unfolds, the bot
tom will be more expensive than It used 10
be, and the top is not going 10 have all the
cream and the bottom only tho skim-mlk.
II i not my purpose here to enter
into any criticism Of the rude methods
Of the workmen combined for a greater adj
vantage. There are a great many criticisms
TO be made, but / am not, this morning at
any rate, attempting to go into all those side
elements and questions that come up, but
simply 10 maintain this, what Is the effect OF
growing intelligence upon the conditions Of
industry and Of social life in the civilized
nations Of the worldl
We have then come to this point, namely,
by a steady growth now OF hundreds OF years,
but increasing everywhere, knowledge Is be-
coming not only in its own province
vastly extended, but knowledge has
organized itself into all the material pro-
ducts of industry, and all the instruments Of
commerce.; and that these implements Of in
dustry and these Instruments Of commerce,
in the hands OF the common people, indi-
rectly become their educators, and that
work Is educating the w~orkingman, and
that in this education tho workingmaa
is feeling influences that he formerly
did not recognize; and having in his
hand the power Of organization, he is
organizing them There is no cutlery when
capital organizes. There is no cutlery when
parties organize for legislative corrup-
tion- Now, when labor organizes men are
uncertain whereunto this thing will
grow. / am not at all uncertain Wherein to
IL will grow. The very act OF organizing is
itself academic. Whore men are organized
in n civilized nation, they are instructed
in law; they arc instructed in general
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hood, in n thousand things: but it
does not come close to them until they sub
ject themselves to a union; new laws. new
elements Of submission. When this takes on
IA larger form, and when, instead Of the
Odd Fellows and Masons and the sons of
various kinds Of fraternities, when a large
mas Of workingmen say: are in dan
ger of cnpital-not that capital is the enemy
OF work, but as yet capitalists
are selfish, through ignorance or in
difference-we must organize at one
end OF s~oeiety.r the process is n whole
some one; it Is an educating one, and II will
be seen that 40,0OO,O0 insn, in the long run
or in the short run, in political
and in economic resources, are more
powerful than l,OO0,0OO men Of larger brains
and with organized capital The two ends
OF society are respectively organizing; md
by our economy in the long run there can be
no question what Is to be tho result
1t Is to bring down a great many
Of the things that are high, and to
exalt n great many things that are low. And
1t Is to bring men, never to e~quality-there
never can be any equality. You might Just
AS well undertake 10 equalize arithmetic and
10 make two no bigger than one and five no
bigger than two, As to organize into equality
men that are born Of such different capacities
and relative abilities. But it will bring into
u harmonious and sympathetic relation
the two extremes Of society, the pro-
ducors and tho capitalists, that represent
the amount OF production or the values Of
%prolue;fon And that process silently is
going ON
You would never know by looking at the
orchard OF maple trees that they wore manu-
featuring maple sugar, but they are. II it
freezes at night and the sun shines bright in
the tlug flua au rtnua unl 10 tho uan rttp
there is the sugar II you boil it down; it Is
SURF. SO tn re are processes going on that
10 not at all by their exterior show
what their real result is. In the course Of
ten n fifteen years, by adjustments Of socinl
experiments, the thing viii com out And
a nation that has the church, tho school and
he Intelligent work Of industry, has those
elements in IL which will find the way to
prosperity
suppote that a little knowledge is d Danger
jus l say there il nothing more dangerous
than blindness And an ignorant man is "a
bin mrn. Every stop Of knowledge that a
man can get Is 50 much guaranteed that he
will Ls more virtuoas and more patriotic;
and the fact that accomplished knaves
abound. that a mans depravity may be
guided better 10y intellect than without Il, Is
no argument against the general fact that
incrpa.od int ~lligence carries with it the
tendency toward social morality and TO
ward patriotism also. And while we have
our instruments for education Of the people,
everything is educating a free people. All its
industries, all its interchange, all its organi-
zatons, all the places were men are
obliged to develop themselves one way
and restrain themselves another way.
the vast continental hive is making honey,
and the drones have the worst OF it, as they
will to the end Of the world.
Now some Of the results, / am not in
tercstcd in all this passing history from
the standpoint OF political economy. |
am Interested in political economy, and !
believe IL is involved in the whole theory
Of the growth Of morality in the commn-
nifty; but that is not just now the point
OF interest to me. 1t is the standpoint
Of humanity that draws mo to this
subject II Is my profound. unweary-
ing and continually increasing interest
in the welfare OF the whole people, but more
especially in the weak and the ignorant and
the helpless believe that | speak the very
heart Of the gospel when SAY that true Christi
anity in our day looks TO the bottom rather
than to the top II does not undervnlue tn
top, and wonli not discrown it, ~rejoices in IL;
but In the hou rhold it is not the venerable
sire sitting in the angle OF the chimney
hat needs so much service; neither is
10 the father, nor the mother in
mid life, nor Is it thegrown daughters and
sons; it is the babe lying in the cradle tina
makes everybody run, and every one bows
down 10 the sovereign baby. And
in society, when the largest principle
Of bcncicence shall be shown, re
ligion will develop itself in churches
and out OF churches, in business. as
morn anxious to take care OF the ignorant
and the poor and the weak and the needy,
than to look after the prosperity OF the thriv-
ing CLASSES
Il Is, therefore, the rise and de
veloumeut of tho comn,on uaorl.