Show A word to tha the working classes DY BY GEORGE 17 BUNGAY A gentleman is a man who is gentle titles graceful accomplishments superior culture princely wealth wearth great talents genius do no not noi 0 c constitute 0 etite a man with all the attributes needed d d zo to make a man a gentleman lie he may be awkward angular r lary iary homel poor and yet vet belong to the uncrowned aristocracy his race face ace may be bronzed at a tile the forge or bleached in the mill his hand huge and hard his patched vest like josephs coat of mmary maary colors and he may cay still be a true gentleman the dandy is a dry goods good sign and not a gentleman min for he be depends upon his bis dress dres and not upon his honor and virtue for his passport to the best beat circles of society the man who has no money is poor he wha who has nothing but money is poorer than lie he 31 and is not a eitleman gentleman ent leman ieman some of the most distie distinguished dished men in the world of letters in the world orld orid of art in the world of science have been gross vulgar ungentle consequently no gentlemen ayou you are a pe c e ar 11 saida said salda a patrician to ciciro cicero allam iam lam a plebeian said the eloquent roman th in nobility of my family be beins begins i ins in me mathat th that at of yours will end wit with hyou you I 1 hold hoid that no man deserves to be crowned with honor lionor whose life is a failure and he who lives only to eat eal and drink and to accumulate money is a failure the tho world is ia no better for his living in it ile he never wi wiped ed a tear tre ire fron tron a sad face tace never kindled a hire bire up upon on a frozen hearth I 1 repeat with en ett lie he is a failure there is no flesh in his heart lie he borshi worships ps no goj but gold even here at the north there are persons persona who deem it discreditable and un ungentlemanly to labor hence vast multitudes of young men shirk the yoke of toll toil and rush headlong into professions and eed positions for which they are totally disqualified there is true dignity di anity in labor and no tru trl true I 1 dignity without it ile he who looks down scornfully on labor is like Iler lier mosho had a month and no hands and yet made faces at who fed him mocking the fingers 0 that baroug brought the bread to his lips lie he who writes a book or builds a house or tills a farm or follows any useful employment lives to some purpose and contributes something thin to the fund of human happiness look at g the e farmerle farm farmer erbe jie jle has a share in his bank but his bis bank is a bank of loam his share is a share and the more da fuls share breaks plowshare Elow Is bank tile the greater will be his d dividends L vid tid ends ile he need not send his notes to new york to be redeemed for nature has indorsed endorsed indor sed hera then with ilar har alg aig signature of flowers i toll wields wierd the ax where woodlands bows bow L ti the seeds sown rhe in radiant bloom rich harvests har bar vesla Vests wave behind the plow and cities cluster round the loom where rounded domes and tapering spires adorn the tte vale and crown the hill bill teet labor lights its beacon begon aires gres and bums p ams with smoke smote the forge and mill the engine with its lia heart of came and joint of brasa brass and ribs of 0 steel from labors plastic angers camer cames came with valve and sid sin singing ging wheel the kingly oak the foresta for tore ests egts estL elg pride whose stem item lj Is seamed seemed with thunder tj it launched by labor cu n the tide beneath the flag of stripes and i tam tars tan gari garl garibaldi ba dithe the greatest rea testher hero of the age is a workingman working crorkin man glenry henry clay was the mill I 1 boy of the slashes 11 daniel webster knit his iron frame into strength by working on his fathers farm when young the men who haye have blood power e enough in their veins to work the brain mills upon their rhoul shoulders ders deis are aau who labor I 1 |