The Work or Fence and V.'ar,
A striking correlation exists between
the results of the present rppid develop
ment of the industries of war and of
peace. The spinning-wheel and hand
loom and the skilled fingers of needle
women, have given place to spinners
and looms acting almost automatically,
and to sewing machines that require
nothing more than a guidance of the
material under the needle. Spears, ar
rows and battle-axes have given place
to the breechloading mitrailleuse, the
rilled cannon and the torpedoes of
modern warfare. In both war and peace
men have been removed further and fur
ther from being the direct agents of
ultimate results, and yet in both war
and peace the demands made npon the
labor of men have maintained an almost
equal advance with that of the apparatns
simplifying their work. The condition
of workers has been somewhat bettered,
bnt with the invention of new machinery
has grown up a demand for finer and
mor plribnmL fabi-ira and with the in-
vention of new cannon and torpedoes
t it " ir r.
uas grown up me invention oi stronger
resisting forts and vessels. In peace the
army of intelligent workers who prepare
the way for the laborers has been con
stantly and largely recruited from the
latter class. In war tho bravery and
skill of the fighters has been made sec
ondary, of the intelligence of the peace-
f ni mechanic But in both war and
ICace there is still work to be done, and,
fortunately for humanity, the conditions
preeedent'to success study and energy
remain the same in both. Mechani
cal inventions' instead of robbing men
of useful incentives to thought and
labor, have only made them more ne
cessary to the individual, and throngh
the individual to society.
Snprrlition.
