Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-01
THE INDU SPIRAL PARADE.

THE 1NDt SERIAL PARADE.
 One of the most creditable and inspir- ing features of the entire centennial eel ebration was the industrial parade that took place to-day. While the naval and military displays were magnificent in their suggestion of our national resources, it was after all the industrial exhibition that gave the truest conception of our progress as nation. The United States is above and beyond all else nation of peace, a nation of industry, a nation of workers. In no other land beneath the sun is honest toll so much respected as beneath the stars and stripes. And in no other land are such magnificent possi- bilities within the reach of the toilers.
 In the country of Washington every man is toiler, and every toiler is a sov- ereign. There are no men among us worthy the name who look down on labor, for every man is more or less a laborer in his own sphere. Our busy professional men. our educators, our merchants and tradesmen, our manu- lecturers and employers, all bring to their occupation the best service of busy brains and busy hands. There are no drones unless it be the brainless fops who are squandering in this generation the accumulations of toiling progenitors who have gone before. Labor is dignified in America as it is nowhere else in the civ ilized world, for our rulers themselves fN,1 flo of institutions and the spirit of the nation that no American citizen, how humble soever the sphere of his daily life and toil is debarred from the ambition of being elected to the position of ruler among his people. Whether in the low CT or the higher walks of governmental power American citizens are sovereigns before the law, and it matters not whether the ruler has come from the | mechanics bench or the more humble laborers implements as to the respect and honor that is accorded to him. A | nation that has seen rnlers taken from the very humblest walks of life, that is made up of toilers, must always regard lStUOI Ollt ol lllC SoluSl oIoIlSo ol Ito edifice. It will be an evil day for the United States when it's citizens learn to look upon labor with supercilious and unfriendly eye. With the degradation of labor the whole superstructure of the nation will crumble.
 It was an edifying and an imposing display therefore, to-day's industrial parade. The various resources of the nation-this nation of peace and industry-were shown as they could not be by the naval and military dis plays of the two preceding days. To a reflecting person the sight of to-day exhibit must have been an inspiration in it's encouragement and promise of | future national greatness and glory. And it must have been an object lesson to labor itself in its suggestion of the possibilities that are wrapped up in or ganization-organi for mutual pro.
 lection and mutual improvement in its
 own multifarious ramifications. When the workingmen of America are thor. oughly organized on a perfect basis of mutual intelligence and good will the re-
 lations of capital and labor will be more equally adjusted, with labor getting the
 full share of the rights and privileges
 that are its own. And to that thorough
 and perfect organization nothing is ol
 can be more potent than such displays
 as that which was witnessed to-day il the metropolis.
 It was glorious, inspiriting and sug
 gestive exhibition of the powers ant
 possibilities of American labor.