Show from the new york weekly sun LABOR versus GOLD an opinion has prevailed r availed to a g greater grater extent that it is ia more profitable profitable to dig the precious metals from the earth than to pursue wealth by the ordinary course of industry true this is sometimes the case but it has oftener happened that the discovery of gold or silver mines has impoverished the nation to which they b belonged longed bp pa and ruined those who have undertaken the working of them it is clear that the man who earns two or three dollars a day by ordinary industry grows rich quite as rapidly as a he who digs gold to 10 that value fi aiom om the bowels of the earth in the same space of time and it is quite as plain that when any cheap material becomes by the application of labor or in i ingenuity ge n 1 ity equal in value to so much gold the same ob e afis pd which those e old strove so zealously to attain let us now look at the transforming power of labor the items which follow are drawn from hunts magazine october 1848 A pound of cotton wool when spun is wortis 2500 the ile same wove into muslin and embroidered is worth an ounce of df fine flanders anders alanders ll thread is worth 2000 the same s am e m made into lace is worth which is ten times the value of standard gold weight for weight A pound of iron worth four cents can be made into pendulum springs of a watch each worth four cents total value lead to the value of five dollars when made into small type e is worth 1400 bar iron to the value of five dol I 1 lars made into needles is worth do 11 i 1 I gun barrels barrel do dor 11 11 scissors do do 4 cc p pen knife r bi blades ade 9 d do 0 do c cc c polished steel sword handles do in these instances it is seen that thai a very cheap material is made to be worth many times the value of gold i let the hard working man reflect that labor is the true philosophers stone 1 |