Man, And What Is The Matter

Man tlmt is born of woinan is of few virtues and full of laey bones. The man who loveth real, trae blue labor tor the sake of the muscular pleasure obtained thercfrom died wlieu Adam was a little boy. Behold the natives in the jungles. They toil not nelthur do they S[)iu, but ïiolouion in all his glory, was not arraycd like one of t hem. But Eve was. Do they love labor; do they pine for eight hours a day ? Not mucli ! Nary a plne pineth they so long; as the frajirant banana jfiveth fruit in itsseason. Kor one banana tree woikiuif 24 hours a day is capable of aupporting a large family. Behold, how the gentlc African, foreed from home and all iu pleasures, was beaten with many stripes in those days "befoh the wah " Why vfiis there that thusness? Wliy did the ovurseer tlourish and the blauksnake become a burden? Beeause the white man was too luy to work and the black man tauglit tlie disease - and the Ia9lies. Lo, the poor Indiun ! Who ever henrd of liis agltating in favor of ulght boon a day. Eight hours to ent, eirht hours to sleep and cMt hours to take scalps and other recreation, Is his platform. Man only works when lie is ot)liged to or has au object of desire to attain. Labor itself is never such un object. Eiht houis a dny three or lour days in a week may be enoujrh for the smart young man who has oulv himself to care for. .Hui when he mceteth a charmer who yauketh him iu ui of the wet, then he is willing, yea, anxious to labor ten or twelve hours a day In order to gel unto himself a house for the wife of his busom and the he expecteth. But he laboreth pot for the love of raUM-ular exertion. Xot uiuch. Man that is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and sheckels in his father's purse, hath a hard time of it. Kor labor is not joyous but grievous. Eight hours a day are enoutfh for a man to labor - if he can earn a living by so doing, and is content. Yet nature knowcth nothing about the eight hour system, or any other system except from dayüght to dark. But whoso thinketh that the night time was established for fear man wou ld toil all the time and kill himself, is au infant. The human family would be fly-blown from lazincss to brush off the nies, if bread were as plentiful as stones and there were no such thing as property, and some of the vanity of the male turkey had not been bestowed upon him. Man loveth not labor, but he loveth the things labor obtaineth, such as bread, houses and lands, horses, diamond pins, gold-headed canes and the latest inreution of the tailor. And woman, she loreth man and millinery .and'all the pomps and vanities of this wicked world. Man, in a state of nature, wants but little here below. Hut man surrounded by brick houses, beautiful lawns and maidens feafullr and wonderfully mald, is not in a state of nature. Iu a state of nature the sighs of man goeth not out for the eijjht hour system. And in the brick house state of man, his size is too large for it. He cannot by.it get as many of the things he wanteth. He that tuinketh that inan's desires can be ligured down to the getting of exiictly eight hours and he can be induced to revel in sixteen hours of leisure a day, thinketh uot wisely. If you are seeing an eight hour Utopia, "Seek the anawers in the stars - we know it not." Those who can live, laugh and be happy, on eight hours a day, let them revel. Man that Is born of woman is of few days. And there are nightt of pain and paragoric. But all men are not of the same size, mentally or physically. Their lougingg,dcsires, ambitions differ. And as they toil not for love of labor but for the satisfaction of their deslres and ambitions. A cast iron rule of labor cannot bc established, any more than men can be made of the same length and sizc. Selahl