The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-05-01

without coming to the conclusion.
that from isolation, a sense of
loneliness and despair, from bad
PASSIONS on both sides, too often
a'tended by bad and dissipated
% na1i.s on both sides alike: from
priqe.s arrogance, and insoIenca
arousing malice and ill will. from
lack OF proper tools and sunerv;s;on
thoughtfulness, sympathy and oors
over the laborer and his lot. coupled
with bad methods and misdirection
OF energy, full one half of the entire
Drain power and muscular force of
the farm laborers of the United
states is totally wasted, if not worse
tnan wasted; and what a waste is
here.
IL unquestionably involves the en-.
tlre annual force Of millions of men
ana women as, in the case of all
other animals, it is as certain that
Whatever amount of his brain.force
the iaborer wastes in gloomy despair,
or q dlrects toward bad passions and
usele ends, he cannot employ for
any good end, as it is that water
cannot run up hill, or that "you can
not have your cake and eat it too"
i say again it is of the money loss
alone OF this waste that / am now
speaking; and not of it's inhumanitv
or immortality, or impiety.
ihe whole tendency of modern
society as to conserve animal force
Dy throwing the coarse forms of
labor, first, down from the older and
more intelligent classes upon the
younger and less intelligent; then
by invention of machines and man
ufactories to throw it wholly off from
men, down upon animals and water,
steam and wind power; 80 that at
last we get our power for all coarse
hand work out of gravity and steam;
instead OF human brains and nerve
and make our machines of iron and
steel, instead Of human hands and
muscles. Here, unquestionably, lies
the greatest conservation of animal
force. England is supposed to have
force OF mechanism under con-
troll equal to the power of five hund.
red millions of men very much more
than the entire working force of the
whole globe apart from steam and
water power. She is already en-
ploying steam largely in Agriculture,
to the relief of both men and
animals.
On the Western Prairies most of
our hard farm work is every where
done by mules and horses. We
plow, harrow, roll, SOW, plant, cult
yate, reap, thrash, NOW, spread hay,
rake, pitch and stack by horse power.
1 have known men without usable
legs, and with but one arm, manage
to work on farm first rate, all thro'
the season, by having boy to
harness for them.
Your country being land of hills
and forests, it is not so favorable
perhaps, to such economies and such
enterprises. But they will soon be
upon you; you will soon have your
factories and home markets in every
village, and your varied and needful
machines in field !? What then?
let US hear the conclusion of the
whole matter. What is the cause
OF all this terrible waste of human
and animal power and forces of
which have spoken you will all
think it before [ speak tit is igno-
rence-sheep ignorance, and what is
the remedy Education of course,
industrial and practical education in
all our school-houses, and on all our
farms tor all classes rich and poor
alike. How few there are who have
any idea how vast and profound the
intelligence indispensable to fully
comprehend the science and dis
charge the duties of an overseer and
a true man, on the single American
farm. 1t would require more pro-
found knowledge and thoroughly
accurate science than now exists in
all three of the learned professions
together. Many of our citizens are
not educated at all others are so
educated that they know much about
every bOdy's business but their own,
and nothing at all of their own, as
they should know if; for all they
did they could not make such miser-
able mistakes and so grossly mis-
manage their own interest as they
now do ; for take 1t for granted
that even depraved man will not
purposeIy bite off his own nose.
! How many men have you in Ten
nessee who are entrusted with the
control ofmen, farm and teams, who
are really fit to control any single
hum an being, farm or team on the
earth If you have any to spare,
you arc better off than we are up in
Illinois. Isuppose that your social
habits may have given you larger
class of well trained superiors than
we have but l have no doubt you
could have more of them and better
ones, and not hurt you q bit and
the only way to have them is to ed.
ucate conjointly on the farm, and in
the school'house. One thoroughly
considerate, thoughtful, well-trained
man, is worth more for real profit on
farm, than as many crack-brained
fools as could stand on it. So again
we s ee we must educate we must
all learn /; every where teach at
hom and abroad on the farm as
well,as in the school-room, and teach
pract tically what all need to know,
and not what none of us need to
know. Your splendid climate and
soil and your energetic people can
never be put to half their uses, till all
our people are great deal better
educated for the high and noble
work of the farm, than ours at present
. are in Illinois our people are be-
ginning to feel this, and l trust yours
are also.
Ignorance everywhere brings
pride and sel6shness these bring
vast to and want; and waste and want
brings despair crime and woe.
We must have education not to
mere books mere words, but to pro-
foun d knowledge and profound skill !;
to high manhood high endeavor and
high ability, for all the duties and
cares and responsibilities of the best
possible condition of American life.
TO A WARMED-OvER HUSBAND
A ministerial broth er, who married
rather sooner after the death of his