The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-22
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same, ana is controLed Dy the same
motives and impulses.
Many of the things we now do by
machinery China does by hand, for if
done by machinery they fear that it
would throw those following certain
avocations out of employment, and
great suffering would ensue.
For a long time we held to the
same opinion and so did our English
ancestors.
When what were called flying ma
chimes" were established in England
coaches holding as many as six
passengers and going at a speed of
fifty miles a day in the summer time
and thirty in the winter time-they
we're loudly extolled as being the
swiftest vehicles ever before known
in the world; yet they were vigorous
ly opposed by those whose axes were
being duIled and put out of commits
sion by their establishment.
1t was contended that this rapid
mode of conveyance would be fatal to
the breed of horses and would destroy
1.-THE noble art of Craftsmanship; that
the Thames, which had long been
an important nursery of seamen,
would cease to be the thoroughfare
of travel and its glory would depart;
that saddlers and spurriers would be
ruined by hundreds; that numerous
inns, at which mounted travellers had
been in the habit of stopping, would
he deserted, and would no longer pay
any rent; that the new carriages
were too hot in summer and too cold
in winter; that the passengers were
grievously annoyed by invalids and
crying children; that sometimes
the coaches arrived at their destina-
ton too late for supper and would
start too early for breakfast, and
hundreds of other objections were
urged.
So when the spinning wheels and
looms were supplanted by the larger
manufacturing plants, riots ensued be-
cause those who had spun and carded
by hand saw nothing in store for
them but beggary or starvation.
So, also, when the first cylinder
press was invented it had to be done
behind closed doors, and when the
first issue of the London Times was
printed at the speed of fifteen hun
dred per hour, printers were dumb
founded, and they saw their occupa-
ton, like Othello's, fleeing away
from them.
And so in this country, when the
Mergenthaler type setting machine
was put upon the market the print
ers babe a long farewell to the print
ing trade, but the result has been
that all these great labor-saving ma
chimes have given a greater employ
ment to labor.
Where the newspapers were four
and eight pages they are now sixteen
and twenty pages and sometimes as
many as eighty. Printers are every
where in demand, and the hours OF la
Dor have been shortened and the pric.
es paid have been very much enhanc
ed.
See how those two inventors, one
in Georgia and one in Kentucky, who
anticipated Fulton in the invention of
the steamboat were ridiculed by the
governors of those states and laugh
ed to scorn about the idea of iron
floating.
And poor Morse, how he was Iidi-
culed by congress when he applied fol
aid in his efforts to establish an cleo
trio telegraph line from Baltimore TO
Washington! why not" they Clied,
in ridicule, ''let it extend on to the
moon,"
| And see how those men who wanted
/ the government to aid in the explora-
ton of the western states were
| secuted, and all that immense and
valuable territory was condemned as
! unfit for human habitation.
And see. too. how we southern peO-
/ pie thought that the institution of
slavery was necessary for the develop
ment, peace and tranquility of our
section, and if it were disturbed how
We thought that we would all 90 to
the demnitiOn bow vows, and this
beautiful and delightful land would
become a picture of a bowling waste.
No less a statesman than Ben Hill
drew this picture after the conflict
was over,
But see how wonderfully it is de-
velOping and prospecting!
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