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l :.:- L Hie Commoner. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 25, 16 t Th Dignity of Ltxbor. Sir Hiram Maxim, In a published interview, indignantly rebukes British workmen who are asnamed of their ocupations. .'. Is gathered from big remarks that U 'fie numhors of them seem to eonsidor ttat they wear "tho Ibadgo of Infamy ccauso they use Ithoir hands," with tho result that "whilo thoy very often lose their solf !rcspect and tho desire to do better for thomsolves, thoy endoavor to make 'tholr sons "gonteoi" by turning them into clerks earning a precarious liveli hood. In consequence of what ho terras this snobbishncs," the ranks of clerks are crowded with half-educated youths, whoso 'almost unskilled labor roduces tho tieneral run of wages to "almost starvation poiiil.' Snobbery, iio declares, Is the great danger to tho British nation, and a contrast is drawn botwoon tho British and the ''American lahoror, to the great dis credit of the former: "Tho falso shamo of laboring with ouo's hands is losing to this country a most important class, a class that Is Bonding America ahead by leaps and hounds." ' This is a severe arraignment. It is t6 bo hoped for tho credit of manual ilabor"thp world over that tho reflc itlons on British workmen aro undo flnrvocl. It la no wonder that British .workmen who revolt irom this atti tude of labor in their own country should recruit tho "creat class of happy, woll-to-do mechanics and arti sans such as there is in America." That there is anything degrading in useful labor of any kind is a lamen table misconception. If it prevails any Swhoro, nothing but harm can flow from 'it. Samuel Smiles, in one of his in- CLUB LIST. 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If the pressure is great the material to resist it must be granite and iron." spiring and uplifting chapters on the dignity, of labor, notes that the early teachers of' Christianity ennobled toil, by their example. "He that will not work," said St. Paul, 'neitner shall he eat," and Mr. Smiles adds that St. Paul glorified himself in that he la Sir Hiram Maxim that the mass of American workmen qo not cherish the foolish illusions entertained by very many British artisans. Philadelphia Ledger. : Rejr. Club Prlra Prlo. 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He himself became a nallmaker. a fact upon which he greatly prided himself. He exultlngly exclaimed that his now trade of nallmaklng was to him what an additional title of no bllty or the ensigns of a new order in Europe. In one of his letters he finely remarked that "our ancestors who migrated hither were laborers and. not lawyers." -Manual labor is respected and honored in so far as it is self respecting and self-honoring. The doctrine that the professions and callings which air Hiram Maxim says so many of the British workmen regard as the exclusively "centeel" occupations are more respectable than tho trades vis not accepted by well balanced minds. It Is gratifying to be told by such an eminent authority as Doubt. "Certainly, I am 3ure it's a coun terfeit note," said tho receiving teller. "It has one very noticeable flaw; it's In tho paper." "But, my dear man," protested tho depositor, "in these days you can't believe everything you see in the pa per." riiuaueiphla Ledger. next- book."-Atlanta LIFE AND SPEECHES OF William J. Bk-YAN. Illustrated, Octavo, Cloth BoundPuWished in 1900 Nothing later in print. A limited number of copies, Postage Prepaid. Address G. H. WALTERS. 2245 VlncTstMat, Lincoln. Nc . while they last at $1.25. Cutting. Him Off "You?" snorted Miss Sharpe. "Mar ry you? Why," you're only an apology for a man' - ., m "But," protested Mr. Small, will you not " , "No; I will not accept the apology. Philadelphia ledger. . SeLfePIan. ; What are you doing in a literary way, now?" nnh f -"Splitting rails to get money onougn x. '.t.t. -- unnr " Atlanta m Constitution. it SI .fn, - "fv ii ' i V , I - HjA .dMalbewftLl'il-il-itftlt