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Show "BRICK." POMEItOY'8 LECTURE. Mr. Pomcroy lectured lat night, as. per announcement, in the Old Tabcr-made. Tabcr-made. He stated that hi3 lecture wa not o; a poliiil character, yet. ihe following report indicates that it is not an ca.y thing for "Brick" to appear before the public without giving expression ex-pression to some of his political views: It is one thing, he said, to run a saw mill another to dUplay laces and lit : fahr'r to forms to follow fashions and please the wearer. It is one thiDg to be an editor, guarding and defending the freedom of an honest, impartial pres?, watching a country and a people from the outer walls of thought and progression; progres-sion; another thing to bo one spoken to or of. It is one thing to bo a maker of newspapers and a chronicler of hiitory, bending over a dek, watching the growing letters, word3, lines and sentences, follow the tracings of a pen, your eyes seeing nothing but the page before you, as your mind dwelia upon facta and their presentation; it is quite another thing to wipe the pen neatly, lay it on the rack, cover the inkstand, put your desk in order, and step from . the almost deathly silence of the sanc-jtuui, sanc-jtuui, that great think slvop, to the 'platform; the glare of lamps and the gaze of ever curious eyes; So it is that one who never has tried to be everything, to please everybody, cannot expect to pleaso all who may be in atteudanco here to-night. On this occasion I will have nothing to do with politics, or mention of the same to make in such manner as to please political friends or oUcud political poli-tical enemies. Rather let me as a young working man speak to the workers all about me, meu and women, thinkers, toilers, plodders and hopers, that they may become conquerers in proportion as they are honest, earnest, plucky, industrious and deserving. My subject, therefore, is "Success; not that brazen imitation thereof which follows wrong-doing, for that is not success, but with those God-given powers within us all, which, properly cared for and developed, rewards our labor, opens new avenues to future resting-places, adds to our happiness, proves our greatness and at least ensures en-sures us a place with the workers in the gardens of God, where thought is tho implement, and minds of men for counties ages to como the field on which we who mako of this life a success suc-cess shall delightfully labor forever. The germ of eternal lile, the spirit of success, is louod in the hearts of all. t is found in the poor boy who starts from a wood-pile be tore a country farmhouse, farm-house, bids good-bye to the past and carves his way to fruio, fortune, renown, re-nown, position, innuecaa and usefulness, useful-ness, not by idling away his time but by work. It is easy to succeed in life. True manhood will euccecd; that which is not, will fail. What a man was, or springs from, is nothing to what he may be. It is not so much in hick, , as in pluck. Tho pluck to dare, the pluck to be honest, to withstand temptation, temp-tation, to take care of ourselves, to be men, accountable to the laws for our crimes, to God for our sins. The boy who succeeds, tho man who reaches sucoesa, is no coward. He cares not for the speech of others. He lives up to his convictions of righr, and no matter what envy may say against him, how malice may wound, slander injure, or selfishness stab to the very soul, he works on, and walks up to the glory of the Eternal as the grand soul-inspired martyrs ol the olden timo walked through mobs, persecutions, per-secutions, reviliugs and torturing in-1 in-1 dignities to tho portals of Heaven, and on to the Rest we all hope to reach. The man or the woman who succeeds is the one who has an iudividuality a determination no words of others can crowd back. There are a million ways to success rather, a million successes to bo reached from that of the housemaid house-maid who puts knives in order to the man whose genius girdles the earth with wire and makes the god of lightning his errand boy! from the young wile who labors to mate ner home attractive and shelter therein her earnest, manly, intelligent husband, to the student of humanity who from tho people draws lessons and learns of their wants till ho is able to weave a panoply for their protection. I Slowly but surely Columbus gained on that long voyage neared the new world, and gave us tbo home we now have; but which to-day would be but a wilderness, only for tho work oi heart and brain which has ao added wealth and given greatness to our nation. Let us ace what made ol America a success. Not the people- robbing, labor-taxing tyrants, who, with crowns and titles self-given, 1 counted their vassals in tho morn, and their profits at even, and who spent their nights in revelry and drunkenness; drunken-ness; the ones who locked their treasures trea-sures in iron-bound chests and their hearts in casings of selfishness. Not tbo ones who believed in the so-called "Hiviuo Right of Kings" to rob, to plunder, to devastate and givo royal titles to themselves. Not tho ones who sat on the distant shore and prophesied pro-phesied the failuro of those who in the olden time went forth, as does the word of God, to plant truths, ideas, colonics and Liberty under tho shadows of a western sun. Not the ones who knelt at court aud "crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee that limit might follow fawning," as itdoes political loyalty to one party or the other with us degenerated sous of heaven-directed patriots. Who, then, mado America a success? suc-cess? "VY ho are the monarclis of our land? Tho workingmcn of "the nation; tho bravo, deatii-faoing patriots of the Revolution; tho grand, old Pilgrim Pil-grim fathers, who clasped their Bible? to their breasts, bared their heads to tho storm, stood amid danger like men of marble, clinging to their faith and standing in earnest fealty to their Belf-allottcd Belf-allottcd work till the , Grand old nUlcs of tiio forest Kftng with the anthems of tho free. The brave meu who had tho pluck to dure the will to persevere to faith to icork and thus the power to accomplish. ac-complish. Not all at once did the country bud and blossom till it became a land of homes. Not in an hour, a day, or a year, did work gain the victory; vic-tory; but at last, at lust, AT LAST, it triumphed, and tho sturd of God are hardly more numerous thau the homes of the earnest workingmcn in this, oui well-loved land. The wilderness yesterday yes-terday tho garden now. The long tramp through forests and along Indian trails then; the rushing from ocean to ocean in palace cars now. And how came this success? By work! not alono of the rich but of the poor, for the handiwork ol every man is imprinted on the nation's record and i title to success tho work of those who I were and are lalorers, planners, thinkers of thoie who arose early in the morning and dared the trials of the day with brave heart, willing arms and most heroic faith. Do you ever sneer at labor? Do you ever insult him who was, and is, and will ever be the great worker? Passing on from men to measures, let us seo how wo can speak to arrest attentionland give no onence. o love our partv: but we love the people better. By the people we mean the armies of men who bare their arms and bend their backs to labor, the weary women who, all the land j over, are wearing the delicate j fabric of female life to J5, 'and premature old aj:e by the I nains of labor; not the ones who abridge i a sincie liocrty. We love me ones. :who have made our country creatj tne poor boys of the land wno are waiting j the road we traveled ytrs ago. e loTe the earnest workers of America more than all the party lines or traces; ever adopted and wound about the lives , o liberties of men by crafty knaves,cun-. ning politicians,tructliug demagogues, place-huntinc idler?, and all tiio.-e who, I would suck the life of the nation as j the vampire does blood. Who of the party leaders in the land dare stand more by the people than by the politicians? ho dare i prune in the garden of legislation for. the benefit of the eun-browned toilers! in the field, who are mora interested: in sustaining life than learning the: petty tricks of law-makers? Oi those who make platforms, who dare look broadly, liberally, progressively, to the millions of working people and demand as much for their benefit as for those who do no labor and boast their exemption from bearing burduus, other than that of time which bears with such weight on them ? V no ol all the brave men in America, dare demand the construction of a platform broad enough and far enough reaching into the future for ail to stand upon? Not a platform carpeted car-peted with velvet and ornamented with attractions swlen from earnest workers everywhere not a platform no larger than a platted burial ground in a country coun-try village, tunccd in for the protection protec-tion of note-shavers, bank-owners, money-lenders, interest-counters and great monopolies but a platform broaij, strong, liberal like the spirit of the age, cacliir.g from ocean to ocean, easy to comprehend and made more to benefit houest worth than idle wealth to advance the interests of the plow-holders, plow-holders, hay -cutters, cheese-makers, gold diggers and other workers. We want a bread platform for 1S72, and for all time to come; not a narrow, private-bos, arm-chair arrangement tor those who have come to bo our masters; but one which will accommodate accommo-date all. As the platform is broad, strong and easy of access, so will the majority of its builders be great. We should havo a platform recog nizing men and women speaking all languages, (but the Chinese), and adepts at the uso of 'everything but tiie bayonet, and for this there should be no place on our platform if wo would have it a success. We would have protection ibr every man who labors, and a prison for every thief, no matter whether ho robbed us of our earnings, horses or liberties. We would have schools for every child in tho land, whito or black, native na-tive or foreign born. We would have churches for those who would worship God, and pillories for the clerical scoundrels who incite people to strife and who would gain heaveq by the sword rather than by prayer and a lito of virtuous honesty. Wo would allow al-low on our plallbrm no idlers, robbers, tyrants, interfcrers with the rights of States or people; no land-stealers, bondholders, nunecessary tax-collectors or black law-makers, till, after due enquiry and further experiment, it were fully proven that the whito race is not capable of self-government. We should have no standing army; but an improved State militia; no army of custom-house officers to eatwhat others earned; no men in high places to protect pro-tect thieves and robbers; no men working work-ing to set brother against brother, State against State; no exemption of any from a joint share in taxation; no closing of public places against any white man; no smotheriog of honest ambitions, young inventors, teachers or law-makers, duly educated to progression, pro-gression, to make places for old fogies and venerable Ibssils still clinging to lite because, perhaps, forgotten by the Almighty. Iq youth, vigor, living manhood, earnest endeavor, pluck, concentrated determination and a disposition to dare is that great power to accomplish success. And where can theee e!e ments bo lound? Not with those who are shivering with folded hands and mumbling jaws, trying to warm their toes in the ashes of the past; but in the live, plucky, enterprising young mon of America, in whom, by whom, through whom and from whom will bo tho success of the natiou which ere long wi'l ccLipso all her past greatness. great-ness. We see what our loved land now is, what enterprise and labor have done; what tho people have done for themselves and this is not the work of party but of tho people. This is not the result of internal warring and striving, but tho work of a union of hearts, hands and interests, which alone can make this a uuion of lakes, ' a union of lands, a union of hopes Ibr our own loved Uniou forover. |