Year: 1866

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substracted, aud no equivalent rendere,


it will perish; but if eight hours is thi


pledge BY leisure we will make eigh


hours better in your till than ten hour


are now" then eight hours will succeed


But it is a brain, question. If you brin,


to work better intelligence, bette


fidelity, SO that eight hours work i.
worth as much as ten now, you will hav,
reason on your side, and your demand.
will be complied with. But if it is Ion
ping OF time, and adding nothing, you
will get, perhaps, eight hours work, but
you will get eight hours wages, and only
that Even if this should prove that the
means demanded are i'm perfect, other
means will be found. | am not one OF
those who suppose that all at once the
whole body of laboring men will rise up
and do the fright thing at the very b,s
ginning. L make allowances for inex>
perience, for want of guidance and good
leadership, expect there will be many
mistakes which time will correct. 1t
may confidently be predicted, therefore,
that If workmen have not leisure for self
culture, they can have it; and it may be
just as confidently predicted that the
employer will more than make up the
dlminution in time by the differenc, in
the results Of the labor. The thousand
petty wastes that accompany ignorant,
dlscoDtented work, compared with the
savings of of mau's thinking, willing
work, amount to far more than the diffe>
renee between eight hours and ten hours.
But the work that is eight hours must
be finer quality Of steel than the work
that is ten, or it will not stand the
strain. This question is in the hands of
the workmen. 1t stands on the great
doctrine ofequivalents, and there sequity
in it. Ifyou strike the line you will be
victorious; if you do NOT, you will be
overthrowu and ought TO be glad of it. \"


Social ambition is another direction in
which the workman may develop himself
into more than his wo would mark him
to be. The democratic institutions of
America work specially in the interests
of the masses. Strong men, rich mon, the
children of genius, can make their own
way. They need little of society, Parity
Of citizenship is very little at the top of
society; parity Of citizenship is every>
thing at the bottom. No impulse can be
moro universal and owerful than that
which inctes every free laborer to force
up his family, in poverty, intelligence and
respectability to the average level of the
community in which he lives. In the be.
ginning of this course know of nothing
better than judci> US debt. Debt Yes,
debt Debt-that seducer, that plausi-
bic traitor, that cOrrupter of morals, that
incubus upon mans peace Yes, debt
Debts incurred for transient enjoyment
and passing self indulgencies are indee
the DEVILS hangmeu and swing men,
they ought to be swung. Debts incurr


for moral stabilities are Gods minister
Let every young man select judiciously
small piece of ground for h. use To-
make such payments as be can begi
with, and adjust the subsequent payment
so as to max them easily within his
reach. Ifdebt now don't make him get
up early, if it don't send him to work
lively, if it don't keep him up late, if it
don't whip his industry, curb his useless
expenses, then experience is delusion.
Applause J | know not how it is in
Boston, but so far as my judgement en-
ables me to speak, Philadelphia is the
foremost of every city in this land in that
more persons own the houses that they
live in than in any other city in the land.
Let me see the community in which there
are the fewest houses to rent, and the
most that are occupied by their owners,
and that is the community | conceive to
be the most honorably prosperous; and
the young merchant, the young mechanic,
the young laborer, if he begins life and
invests judiciously in this way, and then
draws himself up by his Industry to bis
investment will find that while he has
been earning his home, his home has been
preparing him to be worthy to own its
A young man with house and lot, a
good wife by his side, is as tree that
grows by the side Of river, whose root
shall never dry nor its leaves wither.
(AppIause.) The man without property
IS gypsy, wauderer in the community.
Good citizens ought to be anchored, they
ought to be stockholders in the commu~
nifty.


Citizenship is the next and last of these
spheres iu which the workman may de-