Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-10-03
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Tho Age OF Machinery.
we live IN the age OF machinery.
The thinking. directing mind becomes
daily OF more account. while nere
Drawn falls correspondingly in yslue
from day to day. That eccentric mil.
osopher' Gilbert Hubbard. says in one
OF MS essays. where a machine will
DO better work than the human hand.
We prefer to let the machine do the
work
IL has been but few years since
the cotton gin, the spinning Jenny"
and the power loom displaced the
hand picker. the spinning wheel and
the hand loom; since the reaper and
pinder, the rake and tedder, the NOW.
Ing machine took tho place of the old
cradle, scythe. pitchfork and hand
rake; since the friction match SUI
perseded the flint and finder; ance
the modern paint factory replaced the
SAP and muller. the paint pot and
paddle.
In every case where machinery has
been introduced to replace hand labor.
the laborers have resisted the change:
and as the weavers. the sempstresses
and the farm laborers protested
against new-fangled looms, sewing ma.
chines and agricultural implements.
SO In recent times compositors have
protested against type-setting ma
cIiS"s, glass blowers against bottle
blowing machines, and painters
against ready mixed paints. And an
In the case OF these shortsighted
Glasses of an earlier day, SO with their
lmitators OF to-day. the protest will
De In vain. II Is a protest against civ
iization. against the common veal.
against their own welfare.
The history OF all mechanical i'm.
provements shows that workmen are
the first TO be benefited by them.
The invention of the sewing machine
Instead of throwing thousands of WON.
en- out OF employment, increased the
demand to such an extent that thou
sands or women have been employed.
at better wages. for shorter hours and
easier work where hundreds before
worked in laborious misery to exc
out a pitiable existence. 1t was so
WIN spinning and weaving machin-
cry with agricultural implements-in
iact' 1t is so with every notable i'm
provement. The multiplication of
books in the last decade Is a direct
result Of the invention OF linotype
machinery and fast presses.
The mixed paint industry, in which
carefully designed paints for house
painting are prepared on a large scale
by special machinery, is another i'm
provement OF the same type. The
cheapness ana general excellence of
these products has so stimulated tbe
consumption OF RANT that the de.
mand for the services OF painters has
CORRESPONDENCE multiplied. Before
the advent Of these goods well-paint.
ed house was noticeable from its
rarity. whereas to-day an ill-pairted
house is conspicuous.
Nevertheless. the painters. as
rule, following the example set by
the weavers. the sempstresses aud the
farm laborers OF old, almost to a man.
oppose the improvement 1t Is a real
Improvement, however and simply be-
cause OF that fact the sale OF such
products has increased until during
the present year it will fall not far
short of 90.000Oo0 or 100000 900 gal.
Ions.
Hindsight is always better than
foresight, and most OF us who deplore
the short-sightedness of our ancestors
would do well to see that we do not
N turn furnish terrible examples" 10
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