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of that narrow, hot-house, cramming system so prevalent, which indi- 

 rectly inculcates the doctrine that respectability consists of indolence, 

 and how to live on somebody else's labor, but of that practical, utili- 

 tarian turn, whicli will enable its possessor to earn an honest living 

 without being ashamed of it. The dignity of labor must be restored 

 by dispensing with the services of a servile race, and by elevating 

 our own people to a higher plane of cultiire; for the dignity of any 

 class of labor or calling is correctly measured by the standard of 

 intelligence and integrity of those who perform it. If we would 

 have the State prosperous and our people happy, let us realize that 

 industry, frugality, and fair dealing mast be encouraged, and that 

 crime must be punislied, whether committed by the high or low, 

 rich or poor. Let truth, clothed in the mantle of justice, decree that 

 the most powerful and the poorest peasant in the land are and shall 

 •be equal before the law. 



We have within our fields, our mines, and workshops the basis of 

 a prosperity never excelled. For the love which we bear our 

 common country and the generation which will follow ours, every 

 energy should be directed towards encouraging and promoting the 

 prosperity of our whole people, so that when our work is finished 

 we may review it for the last time, soothed and sustained by the 

 thought tliat our noble efforts will live after us, and that our 

 children will rejoice over the legacy left them. 



