Labor Is The Only Source Of Wealth

In the speech of Senator Thurinan, delivered on the lst, we find the folio wing admirably expressed sentiment, to which all must subscribe. ' There caribe no production of wealth in a country except by labor. There is no way under the sun known Jo man by wbich one single dollar can be added to the weiüth of any country except by labor. This is a principie that every political economist recognizes. It is the fundamental principie of political economy. A dozen men in this beautiful town of yours luay speculate with each other the whole year i'ound, and somo of them may giow rich out of their speculations and thu others may become impoverishüd, but they do not add one single dollar to the wealth of Ihe country. A man may be a great capitalist and live on the interest lie draws from his capital, and on that alone, and do nothing whatevor of either manual or intellectual labor, and he may grow rich day by day, but he adds not one cent to the wealth of the country. No, my frionds, he does not benefit the country half as .much as the poor boy that foilows his father's plow and drops grains of corn into the furrow, for those grains of corn wül spring up and become lofty stalks and bear their yellow fruit to add to the wealth of thecountry ; and thereforeit in ay be said that ab all the wealth of the oountry comes from labor, the laboring man is fairly entitled to have a voice in tho goverumeut for which he labors. For making man thoroughly uncomfortable, and reducing him to a wholesome sense of his feebleness and inferority, there is nothing feminine ingenuity has discovercd more eífective than that institution which takes tho form of a general cleaning, scrubbing, and putting oí things to righta. It is not what we do, it is not our history tha makes us divine - it is what we are and which we are to be forever.