Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-16

board of the American farmer, exhibited as
striking contrast as one can imagine. But
| do not conclude there is no native talent in
India. Only few years before native of
| that and-Sheshadrai-cl to this coun.
| try to attend the Worlds Evangelical ALI
ance, and he verify astopished and electri-
| fed thousands OF Americans who hocked
to hear his eloquence, spoken, too, IN Our
own English language. 1t was evident that
| there is talent in India but that talent is
| kept removed from the field of invention
There is caste there; the population is cut
| up into classes, higher and lower. That
| man, Sheshadrai, never did stroke of
manual labor in his life. He was educated
to believe that it would degrade him to do
manual labor-he would lose caste. The
labor OF that country is too cut up and di-
Vlded among the people; and it is almost
mortal sin for any individual to go out of
his own narrow sphere. Many do not
understand why the missionaries have so
many servants. 1t is q matter of necessity.
The one who cooks the food would
never get a table. The one who makes
clothing would never do either. A
mend the missionary's hoe. 1t was
simply to work in iron, but he said his
father never did that work, and he should
not do it. In no other country in the
world is this caste and class distinction so
broken up as in this country. 1t exists
much more largely in England than here
There the bakers and buffers, the cab
men, and smiths and carpenters and butch
ers have kept to their line of work for
many generations. Now, where men are
forever kept at one thing they may gain
higher excellence in that one thing
hence our importatioDs are more largely
of articles Us fine cloths and other things,
where patient labor has put on higher
finish.
In all monarchical and aristrocratic
countries there is a broad distinction be-
tween the ruling and the laboring classes.
In such countries the thinking is supposed
to be done by a few-by the ruling class.
The difficulty with all such countries is
the worker is not thinker, and the
thinker is not worker If lady
does none of her own sewing she has no
use for sewing machine. If the educated
class do no manual labor. they have little
knowledge of tools, and are in no situation
to invent anything to save labor. But in
these United States education is more gen.
eral than in other countries, hence thinking
is universal, and great deal of it is done,
The laborer is educated and is thinker.
And here also all class and caste distinc-
tons are unknown, and the more highly
educated are not unfamiliar with manual
labor, and are brought into contact with
the very objects for which the machine is
needed. This state of things exists in this
country to degree which is found in no
other country in the world. And then
mind is here free. The natural result of
this state of things is q marvellous develop
ment of invention.
The people who have this characteristic
if they are not now, will certainly become
the most powerful people in the world.
They can do more, can overcome more re-
sistance, perform more work than any
other people. Our late war exhibited this
fact to European nations, that our armies
could do more in the battle field and in
campaigning than European armies. Amer.
lean bayonets could think, and the achieve
ments of such armies were not limited by
the possibilities of ordinary warfare.
The same result may be realized in what
ever direction American energy may be
called to exert itself We excel in develop
ing, controlling, directing power.
These results, as exhibited at the Worlds
Fair in Philadelphia, were exceedingly at
tractive to the less enlightened people;
great platforms of agricultural implements
and machinery were sold to Brazil and to |
Japan.
With that exhibition the United States |
as great power in the estimation of the |
nations of the earth, reached culminat- |
ing point. 1t was timely. The great war !,
which had just closed had fully opened the |
eyes of all as to our military greatness, then |
came this wonderful industrial exhibition |
which capped the climax; and from that |
time we have never been without honor |
The development of Christian civilization |
on this American continent is to-day the |
growing wonder OF the world; it is the |
vanguard of tine worlds progress, it is a |
true prophecy of the best hope of the |
worlds future. Universal education, uni
versal freedom and the one true holy re-
ligion constitute the trinity of human hope |