The Real Workers.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1695, 17 June 1885, Page 3

The Real Workers.

Tim native-born American hates drudgery ; ami all the mechanical arts when pursued without some knowledge of science to employ and interest the mind while the hands are active, are mote or less drudgery. Accordingly we find that the American is scarcely ever to Le found as a mere workman. It has indeed passed into a proverb that the real American never takes off his coat to work. Tin* railway pot teas, tne pointsmen, the navvies on tiie various railroads of the country, are foreigner ; the conductors are American. Cali at the pointsman’s cottage, and you may find him Irish or FrenchCanadian, ccrt.iuly not American. The porter at the railway station may be Irish or Gutman. The navvy may be English or Irish, or Canadian, or even Italian—he may possibly be German or Scandinavian ; American be nevc-r is. The factory opera lives of Fall River or of Providence, of whose ‘ strikes ‘ we heard so much four or rive years ago, may be Canadian, or Irish, or Eng.ish, it is certain they are not Americans. The pi muioiie makers of New York another ‘ strikin',' ’ undo— nry be German, they are not American. me men employed in tin heavy work? of the mines and iron works of Pennsylvania—among the Alleghatiios or in that ‘ l ack country ’ of which Pittsburg is thetentte—are t.£ many different countries, i.e>t u few being Belgians, but they are not Americans.