LABOR AND WEALTH IST THE UNITED STATES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 56, 7 March 1871, Page 3

LABOR AND WEALTH IST THE UNITED STATES.

One of our greatest causes of thanksgiving is that labor whistles and sings in our territories. Elsewhere it is mourning its own death. The prodigious facilities for acquiring wealth in America are just beginning to be perceived. The wealth is here, easy to be developed, concentrated and administered. The being " worth a million " won't make a man eligible to the class of rich men much longer. Some think wealth dangerous. 'Wealth is power, and that is always danger-/ ous, but no notion ever rose from a barbarous state without it. Missionary preaching is of no use if it does not show the heathen how to make money. No poor man can be such in a poor community, although among nabobs his intellect may compensate for lack of worldly goods. But riches must be somewhere. The dangers of wealth here are less than we fear. Organized wealth oppresses the but will yet prove itself a % benefactor. It tends to despotism because 'of its nascent state. It is not necessary that the wealth which owns the market should also own civility, or should control courts or legislatures. But we must consider the hygienic qualities of wealth. It is the almoner of employment, of comfort, of enjoyment. Money is vivifying industry to the very bottom of the community. Riches are the poor man's providence, and on the whole, are iv subordination to intelligence and domestic virtue. How to use money is au art. Many can make money, who have not the slightest idea of spending it correctly, while many more can. speud that don't know how to make ; but as a general thing money earned wisely is expended discreetly. Men live here in better constructed houses — which require more ingeuuit.y to keep constructed — than anywhere else. The mouey-producing force of America is more than double the average rnoneyproiluciusj force of any other nation. There are twenty-five thousaud land-owners in Great Britain. /Here land is so cheap that there i 3 scarcely au inhabitant but owns his plot, be it little or big. I know farmers I should hate to meet in argument For remainder of news see Fourth page.

unless I were on their side, while many hammer away at the anvil all day, and read scientific and historical works all the evening. Men who deride money ar.e almost invariably minus the articleyxbemselves, and, if they will oul/^coDsider, they will find that the universal diffusion of wealth is one of America's greatest blessings. Get rich ! Pay anything for it but yourself, your honor, love, sympathy, faith in man, and faith in God. Wealth here is public spirit. Architecture is its adopted child. Cornell, Vassav, Cooper, and hundreds of others, are significant American names, and the time approaches when wealth shall be symbolic of every publio improvement. .< Wealth has it* evils and temptations, but to-day is something for which we, as a nation, may thank God, and pray that the time may not be far removed when the streets of gold spoken of in scripture may be here on earth. — Bee-Cher's Thanksgiving Sermon.