The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-06-18

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of the community. I fear that out
of one hundred young men who ell
ter an agricultural college, you won't
find ten who want to be farmers.
They want to get an education, and
then men wonder they DO not turn
out the best possible farmers. Just
SO with the business colleges, and
yet I am sure they meet very de-
cided want"
II was glad to hear Mr.. Packard
say he did not expect all his young
men to find clerlships. The best
divinity school that ever was cannot
make a theologian out Of a man who
is not qualified for it. Applause.
Unless nature has qualified him for
that exalted vocation he cannot be a
good theole gian. So you may give a
man the best education for Il mer-
chant, and if he have not the quail
fication necessary his education
would not make him one, for aspira-
ton is one thing and capacity is
quite another. Applause.] The
business college would be a desirable
thing if there were never to be a
clerkship on earth. I apprehend
that the community unconsciously
strives to that state Of things where
in there shall be a fewer clerks and
book-kcepers in proportion to what
is done than now. There are less
now than there were fifty years ago
in proportion, and I think this re-
duction is destined to go on. The
time will come when a great mer-
chant will buy and sell millions
worth of goods with fewer clerks and
fcwer figures than he now requires.
So then, if young men are looking
forward to growing demand for
clerks, I think they will be disap-
pointed. But this is narrow con-
ception Of the subject. Why there
is no farmer to-day who works Oh a
tolerable farm-or an intolerable
one laughter who would not be
a better farmer for good educa-
ton. He would be able to keep
debt and credit with everything
with every crop, and ascertain when
he came to sell it whether he had
made money or lost by it. And then
he could shape his husbandry for
the next year, so that he could pro-
duce that on which lie had made a
profit, and cease to produce that on
which he had suffered loss. Instead
of this, many go on from year to
year producing the same things,
never able to eliminate their expens-
es on Improbable productions, or to
increase those crops on which they
may have gained. So it is in every
vocation. I wish business education
were ten times as widely diffrlsed as
it is, even though many entered il
with false ideas: as the now do-fo1
I am sure the country suffers in its
prosperity by the want Of knowledge.
One grand difference Of what is call
ed the Yankee race from some, per.
haps from most Of the races. is its
ability to do many things to run
from one business pursuit to another
I don't say it is desirable but I was
impressed with it when our war
broke out, and several regiments
were centered at Annapolis, and the
Constitution lay there aground
One of the officers asked how man,
men were able to work that ship, and
fifty-eight men stepped out ready te
doit, and fight her, too, if necessary
[Applause.
eff we had hundred Thousand
young men educated for business
we should find employment for then
in a thousand ways everywhere open
ing around us. We have resources
that we do not develop, merely be.
cause the brain and education neces
sary to develop them have not beer
provided. We have a Thousand
vents which business education
will aid IFS to satisfy. I saw. ther