230 Wisconsin state Agricultural soceity. 
He is preparing to take a weld. Behind the anvil is stationed 
a stalwart man, a very Vulcan, with ponderous sledge in hand, 
and near'by the solderer, ready with chemicals to be applied when 
all is ready. Now the masses of red hot iron are brought to the 
anvil in rapid succession, and the foreman with hammer, and 
Vulcan with sledge plying, but for a moment, telling blows, 
quickly bring the irons to the proper shape. They are then 
returned to the fire; brought to a white heat, just right, again 
laid upon the anvil with precision and care, and l£ it is ready for 
the solder, and he fastens it with a nail, that it should not be 
moved,”—a finished job, and all done in less time than I have 
taken to tell it, and why? Because they recognized their relation 
of mutual dependence, and worked in concert and perfect har- 
monv. 
How like this the relation of mutual dependence among all 
human industries; and how necessary to the commonwealth that 
these relations be preserved. Surely, nothing short of the 
most terrible necessity would justify a family quarrel here. And 
feeling thus, I cannot enter with any heart into the unnatural con¬ 
test, the guerilla warfare that is being waged so relentlessly 
between farmers and those of other branches of industry. But 
inasmuch as thousands of mv brother farmers enlist in this con- 
test with the zeal and with the same honest devotion to the com¬ 
mon prosperity as I keep out of it, it will be no more than just 
and reasonable that you demand of me my reasons for holding 
back. Well here they are. 
1. The end sought can be more easily, certainly and per¬ 
manently secured by peaceable means. 
The end sought is a leveling up of certain real or imaginary in¬ 
equalities in society, growing out of a social or financial advantage 
that one branch of industry may have acquired over another. 
So far as it respects social inequality between callings alike 
honorable, “ it is all in the eye.” We may, yea, do belittle our 
calling in our own estimation, and it may be in the estimation of 
others by these invidious comparisons. The fact is, success is what 
gives tone and character to a calling and not the calling itself. 
This is the spontaneous verdict of every one whose judgment is 
entitled to respect, and whose respect is worth having. 
