The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-06
Judge Malone's Grafton
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 cess as an incident of its winning be-
 comes beneficiary to the whole com monwealth. That great judge of hu-
 man nature. Napoleon. Is reputed to
 have said on one occasion that there
 Is no genius like the genius of labor.
 that there is no success like that which
 comes to integrity, to system, and to
 perseverance, in the right. and 1t would
 appear that were one of the wisest
 things he ever said. Every human
 being Is a machine of labor Bach
 head and each hand is a producer.
 The busy brain and the active muscle
 are perpetually adding to the grainer-
 ies, the storehouses. and the merchant
 ships of the world. It was a bless
 ing, not a curse, it was in pity, not
 in wrath, that man was commanded
 to eat his bread in the sweat Of his
 brow. By obedience to this command
 the glory of civilization adorns the earth and commerce penetrates to the
 most distant seas. Labor is the foun-
 dation of all wealth and all happiness.
 Nations and individuals are alike ut terly dependent upon it for their pros perity, and national prosperity is sim ply the result of individual labor. The humble and obscure toll of the honest weary way'' at nightfall is the source of all the nations greatness. the foun- tain of all its vast interests. It is the small spring, breaking into rivu- let from the hillside. which. flowing on and mingling with other waters of it's kindred, at last swelIs into that mighty ocean on whose bosom the des- tinies of the world are determined. Ability Is mans, and especially a young mans. best capital. If he has will find that brains are a better stock in trade than inherited wealth. Brains have put many a poor boy in the front rank. but they have never, unless de- hberately misapplied, blocked his ca reer. We cannot all of us be sons of wealthy sires, we all have fallen heir to some ability, which. if judiciously utilized. will prove a more valuable asset than piece of an ancestral es- tate. Every young man. rich or poor, owes the world something. If he has inherited a fortune. then. as Carlyle says. he has been paid in advance for the service he owes the public Such a debt. which cannot be collected by law. becomes one of honor. and many a man has not honor enough to pay it. Life worth the living demands principles and not impulses. The man with principle is the man who is value of a hitching post lies in the fact that you can find 1t precisely where you left 1t. A principle is something to tie to" because 1t does not change. When we have laid hold of principle we know where to find ourselves and the world knows where to find us. Tying to impulse or mere notion Is being bound Mazeppa-like to n wild horse. No one can say where we will be tomorrow.
 So it Is, therefore. the good work of a man as evolved from his principles i lives after him. Now our brothers are as we say dead. In person they are gone. but still they speak. Their | good example survives and is our in | heritance- They are over the river, | In the shadow of the trees, but in the | and of eternal sunshine. where the | birds ever sing and the flowers ever | bloom, and where death never comes. | They have clasped hands with eternal fife, for they stand in the presence of Sod. We belNve that when to us as To them 1t comes that the golden | bowl shall be broken and the silver | ord be loosed" we shall meet in that | 'airer country. where all the animosi- ies of life here will be impossible. | md where the frail and transitory ties 'f human affection will be welded for eternity.
 Let us draw a moral lesson from his sacred memorial service. If we init to do SO the object has failed 'f it's highest aim. Of what use is it | Or us to honor the memory of our brothers if we do not draw inspiration rom their lives? Let us go forth rom this solemn meeting to exemplify l. n the world the precepts of our noble raternity. Let us work faithfully