Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-14
A Grown of wild olive.

The following is an essay read by Miss Anna
Mccormack Of Logan, at the graduating exercises
Of the Phillips County Public Schools, and is pub
hshed by request Of many who heard it.
OF the human family to-day, it may
be SAID as it has been of the individ-
uals which compose it: 1--WE are each
of us but the footing up of a double
column of figures which reach back
to the first pair" We are the child
rem of our parents. Their habits be-
come our natures and their customs
our laws. Even our holidays are the
legitimate offspring of the old heath
en- rites and ceremonies of our ances-
tors. Have we a Christmas? 1t is
but the perpetuation of the Yule-tide
of the Vikings. Do we celebrate Eas-
ter? 1t is but Oester or Spring-tide
feast of our heather progenitOrs, evol-
we'd into the Christian celebration of
the Resurrection of Christ.
The practices of races, long since
gone from the face of the earth, still
influence and mould the thought of
to- day - derive many d grand and
noble inspiration from the Mythology
of that people who dYelt on the rug
ged shores of AEGEAN, and gave to the
world its greatest soldier, its greatest
orator and its greatest philosopher.
The religion of the Greeks was one
of the most extraordinary that the
world ever witnessed. 1t was formed
| by the poets and upheld by the fine
arts. Instead of the single attribute
of brute force, the diYinitIes of Greece
possessed all the passions and affec-
tions of human nature, joined with
the possession of supreme power,
which power, however, was subject to
the control of wisdom and justice.
The Greeks worshipped design,
wisdom, and strength rather than
mere physical beauty and brute force.
The victors in the games of strength,
in honor of Jupiter and Hercules,
were crowned with laurels. The vic
tors in the exhibition of the fine arts,
poetry, oratory, painting, sculpture
| and music, were crowned with an OF
iue spray, meaning strength, and
Brightness founded on forethought.
This worship was represented by the
Goddess of Wisdom and knowledge,
Minerva
Society to-day, divides itself into
two classes, the capitalists and the Ia
borers-the employer and the en-
ployed. Labor to-day is the great
| living question of the civilized world,
and one that is not always as Impair
TALLY discussed as it should be, per,
haps because the rights of labor and
the relation of labor and capital are
not fully understood. First in every
discussion we should have definition
What then is labor?
Every man has the absolute RICH
to his own brain and hands; his brair
to think and plan; his hands to exc
cute. By the action of brain and
hands, man can change the forms anC
relations of things in nature, IN order
to adapt them to his use. The exer
: ton he puts forth for this purpose i
+ labor. Labor may be of the mind o
of the body, or both, but we are nov
? discussing physical labor, combines
. with sufficient thought and skill T.
make this bring about the best re
{ suits. -.
: The more skill-which Is intelli
gence and knoWledge-applled t
a work, increases the value OF labor
; A man who knows the material b
, works upon and how to use his tool
, best, finds his labor most ~ demand
q Education then is one OF the most I'm
T poItant aids to labor.
The quality of labor does not lie Il
: the amount of strength or time e2
pended upon the object, but In th
: use for which the object is fitted b
a this exertion,
J In making the capacities of natur
serviceable to man, labor and capita
must go hand IN hand, Without Ii
= bor there would be no capital, fc
capital is the stock of previous pro
/ duction by labor, which is disable 70
: further production. Labor Is n
source of capital which has not ye
taken definite form. Capital sur
+ plies labor with the materials to il
crease its gains. Capital is constant
!, " passing into new forms of labc
|, and labor constantly creating ne
q capital. Thus capital and labor al
s mutually dependent on each othe
r The man who lives IN a mansion {
4 the hill and the man who breaks col
/ bIestones at the foot Of the bill affe
Z each others misfortune or prosperlt