The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-03-15
LABoR-ITs ACHIEVEMENTS

a source of wealth to those who use
it rightly
The trees of the forest grow with
out the aid of man; the rivers flow
without his guidance from the noun
tains to the sea; the rains and
the sunshine, which are essential to
animal and vegetable life, are the
gifts of the Unseen Being; but it is
by the aid of intelligent, well direct
ed labor that these instrumentalities
are brought into use in agricultural
and mechanical pursuits, and it is
by the exchange of products of va
rious notifications of manual labor,
industriously and intelligently ap-
piled, that society is furnished with
the rich abundance and diversity of
things extracted from the soil in the
shape of raw products and fashion
ed into the finished article. that con-
stitute the rational enjoyments OF
mankind, and make life worth living.
1t is in the very nature of society
that the arts and sciences grow UP
together; that the manufacturer, the
agriculturist, the mechanic and the
man of science find in each others
pursuits the helpmate of his own
that their interests are mutual and
the profits identical in theory, if not
in fact
We say that the wealth of nation
consists in the amount and the varie-
ty of it's products, but we do not
mean that it is merely the labor of
ones hands. Without the head to di-
rect, plan and arrange, the hands can
do nothing right
The superiority of the head over
the hand is the very first principle of
civilization, and the degree of intelli-
gence which is required in a partic-
ular pursu.. or profession, has at all
times been the measure of considera-
ton in which it has been held.
The head and the hand are depend
ent upon each other-one designs.
and the other carries out the design
into practical use. So the hand and
the head cannot be separated. They
are as much twin brothers, and
bound by ligaments together as were
the Siamese twins, and if severed
one would cause the decline and
death of the other.
The engineer, with his mathemati-
cal instruments, must precede the Ia
borer with his axe. and shovel.
The intellect is the soul-the i'm
mortal part that must rule and con-
troll the mere physical energies of
man. genius must be the ruling spir-
it in the formation and growth of the
sciences and the arts, and our philos-
ophy and religion.
Manual labor, guided by the judg-
ment and reason of the head, must
accomplish all that it processes; it
must subdue all that obstructs its
path; it must conquer all that defies
its power. That nation and that peo-
pie who uses its intellect in the pro-
motion of its government in the labor
of it's people, in the progress of the
arts and sciences. and in the improve
ment of the gifts of nature that lay
around and about it in rich profusion,
will be the people who shall know no
rival and shall dictate laws and gov
eminent to the rest of the world.
If he who tills the soil would do so
with success, he must consult the
man of science who has analysed it's
parts, and who alone can instruct him
how and where his labor must be
conducted. The man who is bronzed
with daily toll, and the pale-faced
student OF chemistry, are equally de-
pendent on each other; the one for
food and raiment, the other for the
knowledge how to produce it. Of
what use would be the fleece OF the
sheep, or the cotton of the field with
out the loom of the manufacturer,
the skill of the mechanic, and back
of them, the genius of the inventor?
Between the agriculturist, the me.
chanic and the inventor of our COM
mon country there is a covenant so
advantageous to all that it cannot he
broken. The advancement of one in
terest is necessarily followed by
corresponding progress of the 9TH
ers: the mill wheel of the manufac-
turer's district can only revolve with
profit as the raw material is furnish
ed by the products drawn from for
ests and fields.
With forests heavily laden with
wood of all descriptions and a soil
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