New-York tribune., 1873-01-10


will stand again as she stood before until sue
educates 1t seen by all the nations OF Europe that
education Ia Indispensable 10 their pocs, powe wei oan
has been found out by them Tor instahse 1has Suo
edge than In any other way, and that government is
managed with more facility when :. - ~ ,ne @ tber ~
Intelligent, sefgoyerned people than IN any oncn
Government has always been difficult ana goyespHei,,
by force easy "a, IN The ratio q t6qreoc s that
you educate there are corresponding hnueuues. ~
makes bad government difficult where educsto. pio
walls and makes good government easY ana so 'here
II leaning OF government toward the people IN & plO
portion sc the people lean toward intelligence ana hess
are the conditions that are being iohoWeo lo-u"'
throughout Europe.
CULTURE MEANS MORAL STRENGTH.
And there is a steady tendency, even under crowns
and sceptes, toward democratic influences and govern
ments, and the sentiment Of the people, that once
counted for almost nothing controls either directly
OF indirectly In proportion the people are educated
they develop force which Is unknown TO unedncated
nations and that popular sentiment for there can be
not think Popular sentiment is the sam total OF the
thoughts OF great intelligence. ihere may pe cass
sentiment but popular sentiment wIlcn d "1 unues n
stand, and which is an all controlling Iorce among us
only exist where there that degree OF freedom ana
intelligence which show only where the great mass OF
It has been found ont too that education promotes
military power makes II less erae ana gives @ 70 otSer
tain moral element Napoleon az soon as any } 31eI,
Frederick the Great before him, but Napoleon aOst
before any other OF his time learned 70 put ~ Un %
moral power of the army, which ne counted, Ia 0ne III
stance worth 10000 men, In the Peninsnlar war IN
greater. The organization will be more complete ana
the army, for man. VIII De better sOulers lor ne
old idea that ignorant man made better machine
soldier and an army that was macnhe was lne Deter
one has been dismissed where IL should be- ana IL Is I'M
dersoOd that an Intelligent hi Is Detter Ior every
better fitted 10 make pins He is better fitted TO sweep
the streets and If he put to carry garbage from the
that Education fits man for any function, however
owy, and in armies it has been shown that education
makes an army stronger as well as better organized
In the great conflict between Germany aud Austria 1t
was the German sohoolnouses which when DESTROYED & the
Austrian military forces. In the conflict between Ger
many and France, IL was again the schoolnouse whcn
overthrow France There was 9s per cent Oh tho army
OF Germany who could read and write. There was
very large percentage OF men OF admirable ana superior
culture in the German army There was 4S per cent OF
the French army who could read and write of course
they went down; they ought to have gone down. LOOK
cent of al the revenue raised In France Is expended
upon her military establishment; per cent upon tue
Government and per cent upon per per eei nd
all the rappings OF army organization No nation could
stand under such circumstances.
NATIONS GOLD MINE.
II increases Also the weathproducing power OF the
State AIN looking at education, you observe from the
standing point of political economy Education or the
whole people increases the wealthproducing power OF
the State and tends to that which all rulers desire
condition in which large taxes may be laid and easily
collected from willing people, without complaint OF
the mass OF the people are poor and nonprodueing
There are portions OF the world which srpass u.s.
orber nations In the prOducveness OF its whole popula
tion take it man for man. ewEngland / suppose TO
England states, aud so, probably, II not first IN the
world not than second in its power OF producing
man for Go through the towns asking this ques
tion: How many OF the population produce as much
as they consumer First comes the community
OF the moths; they consume and do not
produce. Then comes the midway class they
make Just about much they eat up and wear out,
And then comes the other class who produce great
deal than they consume, not for themselves but
for others MY impression 49, anu, "inou. having sta
tistics to back me up tmnk l may say thaI one man
takes care of ten others We know how 10 Is In other
in the community. II Is the industrious man VINO
always makes up for the lazy man. IL Is
man who breaks the peace of the street. The wealth.
stability, and administrative force OF society depend
trous frugal intelligent, careful; and ali the masses
below them eat from them or out OF them. How many
they produce OF children have the right TO do
nothing and old people have the right TO be nonDro-
But the great moral class divides tseu INTO men
Women NAV be said 70 be earners well as men.
though in most Instances men work more rapidly and
earn larger sums than women BnI tiAe laISe iaigs
and how much OF what we can earning the result
minute savings at nome, and see what admirable man
ayers women They are obscure, not conspicuous,
NOT rolling up large fortunes, but nevertheless Inspiring
men giving them that influence by which they are en-
abled to make their industry available, shooting them
her influence directly indirectly and she Is fair
partner in producing wealth in the community and need
not De dslaueu 10 nOhi Np uct Heans
HELPS TO INDUSTRY.
On the other hand take the men who are In the com
munity; how many OF them live without earning what
they eat day by day; how many young men wait for
something living upon their fathers living upon little
patrmony OF little addition 10 IL; how many loun
gers at the street and groceries how many
who are shftless and careless Do you suppose II you
We're 70 90 through the average communities nation
you would lind that one-half of the able bodied men
produced one-half much they con.
sumed III the Drains or these men could
be fred with intelligence, they could
made think and execute according 70 an intelligent
pan you could double the wealth Of society The curses
and burdens of civilization are that We have men whose
education runs to their passions, drawing aways the
strength and stamina OF society, instead Of building up
and maintaining IT, There are some also. who are not
men that wait for that fond hour when somebody will
take care OF them and fly about lowering in the airke
birds and butterflies, with sweet tones and do nothing
but sometimes accomplish their greatest work when they
Now whatever tends to raise the standard Of product
veness IN socetycan but be regarded
interest and political economists are beginning TO learn
how important is the education OF the whole people 70
produce wealth 1t not merely tnat eaeh %sH Is made
manufactures flourish in the south-iron coal cotton
right at the door Practically because there is the
New-Engand manufacture to an advantage over
large part Of the country Because the
have been educated TO IL until there s inventiyeness
and tact in the whole outlying population around and
atmosphere OF industry in the whole community 10
make t available and for want OF integence and ior
that enterprise which springs from Intelligence we are
cheated iInmeasurably every year There is still
educatlon that can never be developed except by the
higher forces OF brain power.
EQUALITY EXCLUSIVE OF BRAIN
Your laboring man is u strong friend OF unions, and
am heartily in sympathy with all those dlscontented
workmen who desire to money in 3 shorter
tne II man can, by eight hours labor do that which
has hitherto dragged through twelve hours let him do
IT, II he can accomplish in eight hours that which has
hitherto taken twelve, he has saved four hours. But
am directly at variance with those ideas which prevail
in certain circles that created exua in every
thing They say one man is good another. That
depends on who the other mgn Is. Men were created
free and equal each possessing the right 10 be that
which Tod has made him and further, II ne desires 10
be more BETTER higher he has the right to achieve
IL by education.
In olden times In France, when a murder was com
hra a nnhIa w fhInQ. IL committed