Wheeling Times And Advertiser

LABOR—"I maintain and enforce the great truth that labor is the decreed and appropriate duty of every man, and that he who evades or shrinks from it not only recreant to his own responsibilities and unjust to his fellow men, but an enemy to his own highest good. Man's physical and moral nature can only be developed and perfected by exercise, for which labor is the proper and divinely appointed method. He who honestly and faithfully labors in whatever department of mechanical industry, necessary or choice has dictated, has a just claim to the respect and esteem of his fellow men, and may justly take his stand with the proudest while the idler, the drone, the prodigal, the consumer of other men's earnings, has no claim to the regard of the commonest, or even to his own."