The record-union., 1891-09-08
REV. Dir. TINDALL.
Some Eloquent and ForcibIe Remarks
by the Divine.

|
by the Divine.
President Of tho Day Harrison after
concluding his remarks, introduced Rev.
Mr.. Tindall. who spoke as follows;
| Labor is the common lot OF mankind
Hence this great multitude on this day,
set apart to do honor 10 it, and to those
Engaged in it. Man was evidently created
| 10 do work. He is a most conSGmmate
machine, wisely contrived and wonder
fully adapted to do many things. No
greater mistake could one make than to
! think it a disgrace to do work. We do
well to take Il pride in it. If we honor iC,
it viii honor us. Yonder graceful statue
was happily conceived. It is true orna-
ment tonhe Capital City in which it stands
Such men as Mr.. Stevens do honor to
labor. His genius has sanctitied the very
idea Of work. When such men devote
their talents, their high faculties OF mind
and their manual skill to any industry,
who should not feel it an honor to follow
in their footsteps? We will never fail
to realize what he did-that if we
honor labor it will honor US.
| 1t behOoves every labOrer to magnify
| his Office. | feel greatly hOnored in ad-
| dressing so large num Der Of my fellow
! men, and all the moro so when | think
! how many things you can do. How adj
mirable that oVerruling Providence
! which SO arranged human affairs that
| there is such u wonderful variety TO hu-
man achievements = that we have so
I many kinds Of work. And all these diff
! ferGnt kinds of work are as so MANY serv-
ants ministering to our individual and
! personal comfort and enjoyment. Think
! what one person eats and wears ana en-
| joys one day! Each one of us daily en-
| joys more ministeries than the number of
| servants employed by any monarch of
! the present time or of history.
| M s,,l l., II
! this. We work for each other. And con-
slider how awards and premiums and
! profits are distributed Seldom is there
| mistake. Committees at State and dis
| trict fairs may make mistakes in award
| ing premiums, but Providence corrects
any such mistakes, and when our several
| works are thrown ont upon the great
| est honor whose work is most
| beneficial to his fellow-man. The
| business world gives him that
| He is the one who in the long run gets
the first premium, he who does The most
good to his fellows reaps the sure re-
! ward. And each individual can say,
| how many people are working for ne?
| l have manservants and maidSeryants,
| / have skilled wOrkmen and common
| laborers, l have genius and the highest
order Of talent working for me. One
man makes my clothes, yea, a whole
! band Of workers rise up to minister to
me as soon as | leave my bed in the
morning; from the soles of my feet to the
crown of my head, they come to dress
me for the breakfast table and the street
| and my daily occupation. Suppose u
| human being should at this moment be
| here presented who had nothing and
needed every thing-how quickly you
could do every thing for him! He could
! be both fed and clothed completely, and
have house built and furnished.
! | think we have lived to see a new era
| for labor. We have a country. and we
| have institutions of government, and a
condition Of human society in which, as
never before in the history of the world,
| labor has come to a state eff honor. We
are seeing, as never before, intelligence
put into labor. We are seeing the tired
arm of human toll eased as never before.
We have come to an age of labor saving
invention, to Il time when mans brow
sweats less than formerly in getting his
daily bread.
We have passed beyond the age of serv-
ants. Every worker is q man, an intel
| ligent, responsible, self-governing man,
and a full unit in the body polite, a citi-
zen. In this case work itself is dignified.
| by being done by a superior class of peo-
pie. And work is more efficiently done,
and in larger quantity. The work now
done in this country could not possibly
grain
would be unharvested, and the seams of
our garments would be unsewed, and the
bread upon our tables would be scant
What l have said is true in theory;
| have we not need to make it more fully
true in fact? One Of your own number
said to me: We are retarded in accom-
plishi ng our object by the lack of intelli-
gence in our own laboring people So
many do not inform themselves so as to
think and act intelligently and indepen-
IDENTIFY.
Here then let me say to the rank and
file of all these labor organizations. I'm
less you, the mass OF you, you who hold
no office and say little in the meetings,
become intelligent you will not escape
bossism in your very labor organizations.
The situation of labor is now confront
ing many grave questions. There are
questions of political economy, questions
of finance, questions of social order, that
link themselves with this great matter of
wages. These are subjects which are en-
gaging the best minds of our country
and of the age. And unless you, the peo-
pie, qualify yourselves to read and think
and investigate for yourselves, somebody
will do the reading and thinking and in
veStigating for you. And, as it nearly
always happens in that case such leaders
will see to it that they shall be literally
rewarded for services on which they set
high price. And so you will find your
selves not liberated but transferred from
one set of masters to another.
AS laborers, you desire to meet capital
on an equality; you have to meet it. You
aspire to make a contract with capital,
In legal phrase. you, the laborers, are
the party of one part and the capitalists
are the party Of the other part. You, the
party of one part OF the contract, aspire
TO be the equal of the other. There is no
good reason why you should not
De. But the capitalist either has
the intelligence himself, or he can hire it,
In any event you as laborers have to
meet the highest intelligence, the shrewd-
est tinanciers, yea, the most consummate
thinkers i'll business and financial prob
lens. How can you succeed without
education, intelligence, mental acumen?
Then let the educational idea be funda-
mental with you. In mind, if not in
money, you can become the peers of
capitalists. a monopoly of money by no
means implies a monopoly of intellect
and intelligence. Physical labor. when
not oVerstraining, conduces to develop
strength of body; it is also beneficial to
the mind. Such workers may be the
soundeSt and strongest thinkers. AS
labor makes vigorous bodies, so does it
also produce vigorous minds, strong in
This personal individual Improvement,
both intellectual and moral, is funda-
mental idea in the constitution Of all your
orders. | have not read them but, know
what is in them in this regard. In all