Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-14

his lofty situation was impressed with q
feeling Of sublimity. and it was so wher
we looked out on the fruits OF the indus
trial exhibit of Rock Island. and yet We
did not think how much we were really
interested in it. A mans surrounding
we're an inspiration to him. and when he
saw the exhibit before him he was in
spired with the feeling of what we owed
to the mechanic arts. We hardly real
lied the important part which mechani'
cal arts went to make up in life, This fair
was grand thing; such expositions on a
large scale had exerted wonderful and
lasting effect on the worlds civilization
and progress, and the result would be
the same in Rock Island. Organizations
alone could not lift men up, but they
were a great help; when every member OF
society was educated then its strength
and power was apparent, and it would
be felt The workingmen should be bet
ter educated so they could take their
stand IN the world, and he thought the
proposed industrial home would prove II
valuable step in that direction.
Mr., Henry Bostock, one of the origin
ators and managers Of the fair, was next
introduced. He told of the origin Of Il
plan for labor home, when three young
men, who were searching for hall for
their assembly, conceived the plan, after
hearing OF the plans for similar affair
in Davenport, and how the idea had been
formally received, until ali the labor or
CARNATIONS had united in the work until
their efforts had resulted in the
present grand industrial exposition, This
was an educational enterprise, and it
would grow until the workingmen and
their wives and children should gather
the ripe fruit thereof, for it was
power. When they held the golden key
of knowledge their position was assured.
The only true remedy for existing evils
was the education of the masses. The
industrial home was grand step in that
direction; it would be place where
physical and mental culture should 60
hand in hand, and would be a grand
monument to the enterprise and inteli-
genCe of the workingmen of Rock Island.
Bowlby's orchestra then furnished some
more music. after which Mr.. Elmore W.
Hurst made the closing address, The
gentlemen who had preceded him, Mr.,
Hurst said, had spoken so ably and con
graduated the committee so heartily on
the successful outcome of their efforts
that it would be unnecessary to go over
that field In his opinion the highest type
of true honor and dignity consisted in
honest labor when accompanied with adj
equate compensation. Alexander the
Great had said that it was slavishness to
luxuriate but not royal to labor. He was
reminded of one thing in the life of
Abraham Lincoln which did, perhaps,
more than anything else to bring him to
the presidency, and that was that when
he was young man in Illinois, he had
followed the calling of rail splitter
The greatest triumph of any form of
government was in having its laboring
classes prosperous, contented and happy.
We should aid in every way in Our power
the classes who composed the very bone
and sinew of our nation in their laudable
efforts for the higher advancement of
and their children. He con
graduated the working people of Rock
Island on the suspicious opening of their
and rendered his heartest
wishes for its unbouuded success