Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-26
GRAND oya1lon
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In this great temple of nature which
has so often echoed with the word.
which teach of a nobler and broader
life hereafter, which is to be pur.
chased by a manly struggle with evi
here below. it is very fitting that W,
should commence this campaign TO,
the opportunity to labor, which is tn.
opportunity to live. for sound cur
rency, whereby we gather to ourselves
the just and undiminished results OF
our labor, and for national honor
which is the elimination of individual
honor and the foundation of national
prosperity.
What seemed the great primeval
curse, that in the sweat of his face
should man eat bread, has been found
in the wider view of the great cycles
of the Almighty. to be the foundation
of ali sound hope, all sure progress and
all permanent power. Man no longer
shuns labor as his deadliest foe, but
welcomes it as his dearest friend Ma
tons no longer dream of riches as the
Spoils of war but as the fruits of hui
man energy directed by wise laws and
encouraged by peace and good will
Battlements and forts and castles, ar
mics and naVies are. day by day. less
and less the euginery of slaughter.
and more and more the guarantee of
peace with honor What the world
longs for now is not the pageantry
and devastation of war for the ag-
grandiZement of the few, but the full
utilization of all human energy for the
benefit of all mankind.
Give us but the opportunity to labor
and the whole world of human life will
burst into tree and flower.
To the -, 100000 Of people which
make up the great republic. the oppor-
tunity to labor means more than to
all the world besides. 1t means the
development of resources great beyond
the comprehension of any mortal and
the diffusion among all of riches to
which the elories of the Arabian
Nights are but the glitter of the pawn
shop and to which the sheen of all the
jewels Of this earth are but the CLEAN
of the glow worm in the pallor of the
dawn.
To develop our great resources it is
the one prime necessity that all our
people should be at work that all the
brain and muscle should be in har-
monious action, united in their en-
deavors to utilize the great forces of
nature and to make wealth out Of
senselcss matter ana out Of all the life
which begins With the cradle ana ends
with the grave. and out of all the
powers which ebb and How in the tides
of the ocean. in the rush of the rivers,
and out of the great energies which
are locked up in the bosom Of the
earth.
Man alone has mastery of the earth
and sea and sky and by him alone can
the hidden treasures be poured into
the light of dag.
But each individual man is weak and
powerlcss. only by combination each
with the other can great results be
had. No more striking proof of this
can anywhere he found than in that
union of men which makes up
the modern nation and modern society.
But while men must be united for
great enterprises the nature Of man
Graves also liberty and individuality.
Modern union the complex wonder
fully complex condition of modern SO
cicty has drawbacks and sorrows
which are completely its own. The
sachems of New England had no tinan-
Cial troubles, no strikes. The currency
question was as simple as string of
wampum. In Central Africa, today,
banks never break and checks are
never dishonored for neither banks
nor checks are needful for their kind
of prosperity. Before the factory sy3-
TEN rendered combinations of work
men needful there was less discomfort
but almost 70 progress, and there was
no sharing by the toilers of the profits
and pleasures.
But if YOU believe. as | do, That the
world is better than il was and that all
the discomforts Of modern life are but
a fair price paid for a higher civiliza-
ton growing ever higher. then You
must with patience try to understand
the temporary evils and seek in good
temper to rectify wrongs by good
sense.
Neither loud Indignation nor floWery
speech. neither great promises nor wild
harausucs will help any man out of
disaster or any nation out of hard
times. Temper will not even unite a
shoe string and the harder you push
rope the more it will not go any
whittier
What are the causes of prosperity,
and what are the causes Of panics?
Are they mysterious things eyond hui
man ken? If you will analyZe you will
find that whatever the remote causes
are, and they are different every time,
the immediate cause of prosperity is
the confidence of all the people in each
other and in the situation in the future.
When the people all work together,
when they all have faith in each other,
then prosperity reignS. After prosper
ity reignS for some time. longer or
shorter, men think that hard times are
permanently done away with, and get
wild, and over prosperity sets in. Then
some wise men, earlier than others,
see that the world cannot obSOrb all
that is made. cannot support all the
which the Ver-confidcncc
Of men has set in motion, and begin to
doubt, to refuse discounts. to hoard |
money and call n halt to speculation.
Then tn" diStrust spreads and panic |
and hard times follow, Then we set
to work to climb out of our troubles
and The process is slow. While we are |
out we suffer What q lovely |
period that Climb-OIt season is for |