Mr. d us with a good deal of emphasis that it would not do to have every man as learned and as culti vatedas the Senfrom Massachusetts. What will you do for bootrblacks? says the Senfrom Pennsylvania. What will you do for men to perform your menial offices? The had)not occurred to me. It did startle mineq. uirly this rather a solemn warnin. It did awaken me from the dream in which I had indulged for a great many years. It ought to be attended to. on who think men, American citizens, ought to be made equal, take care that you do not destroy the profession of bootblack. You that think that in the course of coming generations all men are to be brought up and placed upon a plane of political equality, listen to the solemn admenition of the Senfrom Pennsylvania, who sends his warning down the line of these comin generations and charges you to be careful, c careful how you enlarge your universities; you had better shut up your Academies, your schoolhouses; if on do not take care you will have nobody to by ack your bootsl Well now, Mr. President, this is a serious matter; it commends itself to you “gentlemen who have your names fairly writ on the conservative list; you must take heed to it. As for my self, I am washed out of that fraternity. Ever since I have taken any part in political affairs, I have been so firm] and so lly wedded to the idea that it was the work of the law, as of the gospel, to bring all men up to their utmost capacity, that I am bound to prosecute that la or myself. I must go along in that path. I am hopelessly committed to it. I must follow it out, even if my boots go unblacked. But, sir, I do not admit that any consequence so dire as that would follow. Something may be done yet to secure a class of men to perform these menial offices. We havenot tested the stretch of our social capabilities yet; we do not know how much can be done for the preservation of American society by associated effort. Suppose ou organize societies for the propa gation of cotblacks, would that not do some thin for us to save us from this calamit? I have thought of another thin. t was suggested to me by what I remember in the economy of a very thrifty man in the town. iu which I was raised in the State of Maine. The Sum of Maine was when I lived there rather too far north to cultivate corn to advantage the seasons were not quite long enough. In one particular year, however, I remember the season was very long, the frosts were late, and the corn ripened remarkably well. It was the habit of farmers there to use the unripe comwhat they called the soft cornto feed to their swine, and so they called it hog corn. One year the corn riened very well, and one farmer whom I remember in the town in which I was raised was so very fortunate or unfortunate that his corn all ripened and he had no soft corn for his swine. Of course his swine could not be allowed to go without corn, and so he swapped with his neighbors who were not circumstanced in the same wayswap edhis sound corn for soft corn to feed to his lilo When the time comes that American secret is all educated above the capacit to black boots, perhaps something can be one in the we of exchange to supply us. Undoubtedly we shall reach that point many years ahead of Europe, or Asia, o! Africa. Can we not swap our cultivated men who cannot perform menial offices for unculti vated men who cannot do anything else and drive a good business at it?