ADDRESS OF REV. H. EDDY, D. D. 



have wrought out chaos more magnificent than any star that 

 that blazes in the galaxy that spans and adorns our heavens. John 

 Knox, the thunderer ; Calvin, the forger of the iron creed ; Lu- 

 ther, the iconoclast of church idols ; Wesley, the indefatigable 

 worker and organizer ; Henry Clay, who laid the foundation of 

 his fame in studying by the light of pine knots ; Abraham Lin- 

 coln, the rail-splitter ; Grant, the tanner and wood-hauler ; Gar- 

 field, the toe-path boy ; Lyman Beecher, the son of a blacksmith ; 

 H. W. Beecher shot red hot like a meteoric stone from the son of 

 love ; one of the great toilers. An incident : I once crossed East 

 river ferry with him over to Brooklyn. He had been up to his 

 farm and was returning with a very heavy basket of fruits and 

 garden vegetables. I thought of course he would take a carriage 

 on the Brooklyn side ; but no, he trudged away bearing his own 

 basket, which pulled his shoulder down below its level, it was so 

 heavy. He was a man who carried his own basket and the basket 

 of many others as well. He worked from the basement up to the 

 ridgepole. His sun has set ; but his star has taken its place in the 

 galaxy of great workers. 



Thus we see that labor is the main factor in the world's progress. 

 The beginnings of wealth must be in work. It assigns a value to 

 everything. Money ceases to be of any value when labor is not 

 present with its hard hands and powerful muscle. Even land sinks 

 to its lowest value without labor. Even land speculators find in 

 their speculations no money where the laborer does not go. Whence 

 comes the rise of the vast tracts of land which the -speculator has 

 purchased or stolen ? Did not real settlers go on beyond and 

 around, his ventures could not pay. Men went west to make 

 farms and made them and speculators made their millions and are 

 now making them, around those little farms. 



What then are your lands worth without labor? What are your 

 mines worth though they be magnificent bonanzas without labor? 



What are your trip hammers, your forges, your engines, your 

 railroads, your millions of spindles worth without labor ? What 

 are your vast timber tracts worth without labor ? It is labor that 

 has added a value and a continually increasing value to all this. 

 Take an illustration on a large scale. The cost of the raw mate- 

 rial of manufactured articles of the United States according to the 

 last census was $3,396,823,549. Labor added to the value of the 

 raw material and worked it up to the amazing figures of $5,364,- 

 579,191. Now if we deduct the cost of the raw material from the 

 value of the manufactured article we have as the profits of the in- 





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