The record-union., 1891-09-08

facts in other countries. You can see
that wages are higher. Are they high
enough? You can study legal decisions
and learn how far you can lawfully go in
the line of combination and union of
effort for your own good.
Permit me earnestly to recommend to
the individuals of this great multitude
to give special attention to individual
personal Improvement. Life is short
at best, and as one has wisely said, very
much what we make it."
Take that motto on the monument,
Think, look up, lift up" Man is supe-
rior to all other animals. He stands
higher for the breadth of his base than
any other living creature. While he
walks OH earth his head is high as
heaven. While his hands handle earthly
things mis- mind is COnYerSant with spirit
ual and even divine things. While his
body needs the food similar 10 that of the
lower animals, his soul needs the food of
angels, and he is not satisfied without it.
His taste and relish of material things
may be no higher than that Of sheep and
cattle, yet mentally he can enjoy the very
bread Of God with spiritual pleasure.
Then think and look up" turn the
eye of pity and love upon the needy and
lend hand to "lift up" While helping
others you will help yourselves.
The question OF poverty and riches will
slider how much of this increasing num-
Der of poor people is affected by
the immigration annually of half
Il million of very poor people into this
country, and how much by any mall
adjustment between capital and labor in
our own country. In all these things
never forget that capital is your natural
friend and ally in life's immortal battle,
and that the solution which harmonizes
capital and labor is the best for both.
" lille in this country it is essentially
contract between the laborer and the cap
italist, the former must keep himself
abreast with the times in intelligence and
skill, so as not to be overeached in the
bargain.
Before concluding, may l direct your
reverent attention TO your greatest and
best friend. Who is he but the Supreme
one, who gave to man day of rest once
a week? The period of the week is in
nature, i'll the human constitution ana
even in the weather. The idea that the
changes of the weather are connected
with the changes of the moon is based
on the fact that, irrespective of the moon,
the weather very often makes a revolu-
tion in the period of week.
Did you ever think of it that the rest
day, or Sabbath Day, was insti-
tuted by a laborer, and specially
for laborers? The record of its
institution reads Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy, for in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea
and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day"
That was a big weeks work, and the
Creator was richly entitled to q rest day.
SO is every human labor entitled to a
rest day and every seventh day is the best.
And do not lose sight of the fact that
it was given as holy day and not holi-
fiuy I oft fl,ntI INlxr Il, h.,
beneicent gift of our Creator. Let it
ever be the grand leveler in human society
when the employed and employer have
both alike laid aside the cares Of secular
business, and enjoy that rest which the
IabOrer pre-eminently needs. No weari-
ness SO readily and surely recuperates as
muscular WEAKNESS. Rising from the
Sabbath rest the labOrer is refreshed, and
good as new for another week of toll.
My address would not be complete if 1
did not also point you to the laborer's
greatest enemy. 1t is alcohol. Never
lose sight of the fact that alcohol is always
poison. As a poison it certainly
acts in the human system. Dilute it,
color it, mix it as you will, it does
not change its naturee. 1t paralyzeS the
nerves ofthe eblood-vessels, they lose their
power to contract, they become flabby,
and, being gorged with blood, gives the
alcohol man a red face, red eyes and
red stomach, and a red brain: it para
lyZes his nerves of motion so that he cam
not walk; it will down him, even into
gutter. Then it weakens his muscular
and his will-poWer so, that, tested by per-
feet machine to measure strength, he is not
as strong when under its influence, even
though he feels strong enough to move
q mountain; he cannot so perfectly con-
troll, direct and concentrate his physical
force. Then, worst of all, while it eXCites
his heart action and influences his pas
sions. it weakens, often paralyzes his
conscience. And the criminal comes be-
fore the court and pleads for leniency in
the infiction of punishment that he was
drunk, his passions were hot, but his con-
science was disabled he was unre-
he knew not what he was doing
when he killed his friend, perhaps his
wife. Now consider that alcohol has no
feet, it cannot walk, it has no hands to
handle anyone, nor wit or tongue to outwit
anybody. And there is one certain and
sovereign remedy against all its physical
and moral evils: Let 1t alone; touch it
not taste it not, handle it not, and it will
never harm you.
feel proud to address this great and
noble assembiage of laborers. / delight
to look upon the high and honorable
position which labor occupies in our
American civilization. / am pleased to
see how it has won the front rank in
human progress; how the best intelli-
gence, the latest science, and the deepest
and the wisest philosophy are
each most eager to pay it Difference and
contribute to its comfort and improve
ment. / would invoke universal thanks
giving for the heritage which labor has
found in this great and grand country.
predict for it here 10 achieve its greatest
and most wonderful triumphs. l fondly
hope that here in these United States that
blessed trinity, univeral liberty, univer-
sal education, and the true religion, will
illustrate to all men that these three are
Gods best gifts to man, and that the civil
Hzation which they are producing will be
as beacon light to the people OF all ma
tions. When that great-souled and
and gifted artist of France,
Bartholdi, conceived the idea Of present
ing to our country that magnificent work
of art, the 'Statue of Liberty" which
now stands for the admiration of all be-
holders in the City of New York, he
upon it this sublime sentiment,
alike hOnoring the noble soul of the
artist and donor and the genius of Amer
lean institutions: Liberty Enlghtening
the World"
Be it our ambition to add a few words
to that sublime inscription. We can do
it. BY Improvement of the unequaled
opportunities of our country, of our in
stitutions and resources, may we so ad-
vance in everything that renders people
great and happy and glorious, that the
people of all nations shall be led to point
to America and say: Behold where lib
erty, intelligence, industry and virtue
are enlightening tho world"
REV. DIR. LEVY.
Some Gems of Thought on the Great