The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-05
TheEmpoTiaNeW vs.
EDUCATION.

Ina time like the present, when ogr
free institutions are on trial before the
world; when our experiment in self, gov
eminent has passed through the severe
crisisof open conspiracy and rebellion;
when the vail of union 10 our political
Temple is rent in twain By the ruthless
hand Of treason, and the fabric is tremb-
ling to its foundations from intsrusi coz
WILSON'S, threatening to fan and bury in
its ruins our bright political hopes, it ia
eminently BETTING the tastes aud objects
of this nation, as in common with the
young nen and women Of America. the
great hopes aud destinies of unnumbered
millions are soon.tO be 30 placed. that We
shall turn our thoughts to the great prin-
ciPles which lie at the foundation of our
eelf-goVernment, Education, a theme
which has been held as destructive to free
institutions. Educate the people," is q
motto which has come down to us, cloth.
ed with heroic thoughts. from Penn.
Franklin, Jefferson and our great Wash
inglou, and been kept f5aIing 10 the
minds of the people ever since the frai
bark Of our Pilgrim Fathers landed on
Plymouth Rock. Educate the people, {"
has been echoed from the pulpit, aud
from our halls o. legislation, and from the
press, till its sounds are as familiar to US
as the lowing OF cattle upon our thousand
hills. 1! is confined by no means to our
schools; git does not begin with the alphabet
nor end with the diploma; but it COM
menees with life's FIRST dawn, and ends
with the shadows Of death, Every EN- e
ton of pleasure or pain. OF beauty or dis
gust, no matter how slight, fixes its little
but indellibls stains or "beauty spot, "
according to the influences which are
brought to bear upon it. Il is true that
education cannot pIow or raise corn, but
it does stand foremost in the contrc ling
of the nation; its brightness is emblazon-
ed on every page OF our history. and to-
day it is education that gives our nation
its rank among the other nations. We
may look back to the time Of Franklin
and Penn AID say, if we had lived in those
days when stage sxpress realized the high
est mode of sending a dispatch, wher
the steam engine and lightning telegraph
were yet to ba invented, We might hay,
been enrolled on the pages OF history
But not so. Never was the demand 70
educated business men so grea! as it
now, and using the language Of the Me-
York Independent: Talented mea ar
now sought every where, they are wanLs
everywhere, they areIneeded everywhere.
Our plains and Rocky Mountains are ys
to be explored, and thoss snow caps o
the Rocky and Nevada ranges are yet t
be undermined, and robbed of their min
eral wealth. His true that mining ap
grading is done by uneducated men, bu
how much better would it be for any on
of these men, who are. NOW toiling by lh
day, TO hold the rein while others pull.
When Rome sat on her seven ills O
beauty, and from that ruled the world
suppose the young Roman had foldet
his arms and said: There are NJ
more nations to be conquered, DO NOR,
laws to be made, perfection is reached
and now, suppose we could bring thal
same young Roman to the United States;
he would think, as we now do, that Rome
was in the infancy of human progression.
Who can say there is nothing to do when
for a moment, considering the vastness
of our fertile valleys which are yet wait
ingthe upbuilding Of commercial citiSs
and the rich golden harvests, which can
only be accomplished by young men o
education ? All the great achievement.
of The pastghave been done 10 the mids
of difficulties of every kind, incident Il
the want of machinery. ofskill, of wealth
and Of knowledge. But in the futur,
these defects viii be repaired. Every
new discovery in practical art will quick
en- the passage TO others. Our peopl,
have spread themselves, in the last eighty
years., oyer the long sxtspt of the Pacific
coast, and are opening new springs anG
channels Of trade in these vast and fertile
regions. They will coon enter into the
competition for the trade of the east. Il
must be confessed, however, that ma.
lions like mans life, "cousisteth moi
ia the abundance of the things that il
possesses" All the wealth Of the world
would do US no good if it were unaccom
panied by the richer treasures of intellI-
gence' virtue aud religion. F. E. G
A baby elephant, eighteen months old,
was passenger on the New York Cen.