Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-23
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man nature seems to be about the
same, and is controlled by the same
motives and impulses.
Many Of the things we now do by
machinery China does BY hand, for Il
done by machinery they fear that II
would throw those following certain
ayocations out OF employment, and
greae suffering would ensue.
For long time we held 70 the same
opinion and so did our English an
cestors.
When what were called flying ma
chimes" we're established in England
coaches holding as. many as six pas
sengers and going at speed OF fifty
miles a day in the summer timeTthey
we're loudly extolled as being the
swlftest vehicles ever before known
In the world; yet they we're vigorous
ly opposed by those whose axes we're
being dulled 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
the noble art of horsemanship; that
the Thames, which had long been an
important nursery of seamen, would
cease to be the thoroughfare of travel
and It's glory would depart that sad
dlers and spurTiers would be ruined
by hundreds; that numerous inns, at
which mounted travellers had been in
the habit of stopping, would be desert
cd, 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
by inyalids and crying chill
iren; that sometimes the coaches ar
rived at their destination too late for
supper and would start too early for
breakfast, and hundreds of other OBJ
ectlons we're urged.
So when the spinning wheels and
ooms were supplahted by the larger
plants, riots ensued be-
,ause those who had spun and carded \
~ hand saw nothing in store for them
tut beggary or starvation.
SO, also, when the FIRST cylinder
,ress was invented II had to be done
behind closed doors, and when the
irst issue OF The London Times was
printed at the speed of fifteen hundred
,er hour, printers were dumbfounded,
md they saw their occupation, like
fleeting away from them.
And so In this country, when the
iergenthaler type-setting machine
vas put upon the market the print.
RS babe a long farewell to the print.
ng trade, but the result has been that
III these great laborrsaEing machines
AVE given a great employment to Ia.
,or.
Where the newspapers were four
md eight pages they are now six.
cen and twenty pages and some.
ines as many as eighty Printers
IRE everywhere in demand, and the
hours Of labor have been shortened |
'nd the prices paid have been very
much enhanced.
See how those two inventors, one
n Georgia and one In Kentucky, who |
Fulton IN the invention OF |
he steamboat were ridiculed by the
Governors OF 1hose States and laugh. |
ID to scorn about the idea OF iron
loatingl
And poor Morse. how he was rldl.
,uled by Congress when he applied for |
Md 10 HIS efforts TO establish an cleo
rio telegraph line from Baltimore to
why not" they cried. J
N ridieule. 'let It extend on TO the |
And see how those men who wanted
he Government 20 aid In exploration
81 the Western States were secuted,
and all that immense and valuable
territory was condemned as unit for
human habltation.
And see, too. how we Southern PEG
pie thought that the Institution OF