The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-05
TwENTY-HOUR WORKERS.
Ambitious Youths Who Won't Be Guide
by the Eight-Hour Law.

Ambitious Youths Who Won't Be Guided
by the Eight-Hour Law.
Whatever the outcome of this proposed
gigantic uprising Of the laboring manhood
of civilization seeking eight hours Will De |
God only knows, says the Boston Globe.
We are sure that Oswald Ottendorfer, IN
the current North American, has limited at
a great truth. Development is the law. A
political liberty has been the result thus
far of centuries of '"Try, try again" 80 the
better condition of labor will not be at
tanned at jump. But, little by little, with
experiment after experiment, at the cost of
hundred failures to one real advance. and
Of treasure, strength, life worn with hopes
deferred, the God-given betterment OF all
| the race draws near.
At the same time the hundredth young
man will insist on working sixteen hours.
He will be ambitious. If the shop lets him
out at S p. m. he will work on his patent
till midnight. If the whistle blows at 8 g.
M. he will have been up with the sun, toll
inc over his great idea many hours. No
re1ulatious can control the Napoleons.
They are, to be sure, born and not made,
and they will continue to be born. MINDS
with an Unsuitable appetite ioT e1ertlo al,
that can no more keel. still or play
than the sun can pause in his apparent
journey.
men: If YOU read biography you will be
7 struck with the likeness between your.
Genius can never keep still. The great
Frenchman named claimed his right to to
work day after day with only four hours OF
sleep. Caesar kept exactly the same anne
hours. He tired out c every > one one
who worked for bo him. ord maeep
Law slept even less. Stephenson was al,
: WAYS fussing over something" day and
: night. Columbus sailed his own ships and
, kept the deck watch with his sailors tor hls
. idea. When fellow gets an IDEA, OF wh aea
an idea gets fellow, rather, nothing bu1
J. death can stop his work. horace Greeley
It and his brilliant competitor, Raymond
It worked on an average of twenty hours eaci
: day. Abraham Lincoln rarely slept mucl
!, while the idea of the century had him IN II
: grasp. -, ;,
!. A Young man with pet idea which b
Il wishes to achieve is driven like racer. !
r. is true he is his own driver. I suppose tina
:. is the point. Yet it is folly to suppose tina,
~ by any rule of agreement, society can char
l. born, and, thank God, these superior birth
"a are even more apt to occur in the working
- mans cottage than in the rich mans pa
ace.
es So that, while the many may be restin!
n the superior chap will be digging away. g
We will get the advantage in the race. :
to course he will he had the advantage in tn
y, ~ start. God gave it to him by birth, endoy
81 ments of brain, nerve and stomach. =
ey NAV have to hide it in an attic or concei
1873 himself in cellar; but dig he will, tireles
ly, ceeselessly, productivity.
nd Without expressing an opinion here c
~ the wants of the eight-hour movement, OF
p way or the other-may heaven guide it to
at good end-the ambition Of the mechanic
ia Bright boy will still have its liberty t2 wo!
10. as long and hard as it pleases. pam
~ Webster killed himself with work. Had
ne continued on the farm he might have driy;
for oxen and sharpened sleeps noses amid Il
ad rocks till he was 80. But he was never DO
,he to toll, and to die known as the most ma
~; sive intellect that America has yet produce
n There seems to be no way of preventil
ar' these Randalls burning themselves out u
ch candles to shine in this naughty world. !!
,es wav except We strangle Hercules in
IN. cradle. Go ahead, you giant boys! you
h- enrich Us all.