Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-04-04
ESSAY read before the Teachers AS
ISOLATION at Mechanicstowr, March
26, 1874, by JOHN +. ADELsPER-
GER, Of Emmits, urg District.


Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
appear before yon this afternoon
to endeavor to address you on the
subject of education.
Education is the formation Of the
mind. The sciences of Geography
and History teach us that in those
countries where the people are not
educated, they are very little better
than the brute creation. Where the
arts and sciences have not been Guilt
waited the people pursue a wandering,
savage and degraded life. Their man
ners and customs are similar to those
of wild animals.
wish to draw your attention for
few moments to brief description
that education bears to Labor, Wealth,
Crime, Happiness and Government.
Education renders labor effective.
A man who is intelligent and skillfnl
can perform more work of any kind
than one who is ignorant and awk-
ward. This fact is seen in every shop
and on every farm. Il is shown also,
by the invention Of machinery. In
ancient tunes much strength vas
wasted in carrying water from distant
eprings but when wells were dug one
step was taken to lessen labor; when
pumps were placed in those wells and
the atmosphere made to do part of
the lifting still greater progress was
made in the same direction; and when
siphons and hidraulic rams came into
use water could be procured almost
without muscular strength.
A shsrpenrd stick m sht serve a
savage to plant few hills of corn; II
spade would enable him to do more
with pillow and the skill to use horses,
one man can DO the work of many,
and where steam can be made to take
the place of animal strength 4 still
greater breadth Of land can Ire worked
with les, amount of labor. If all
grain now raised in the United States
had to b. thrashel out by tie -l":rle
contrivances of the primitive ages aud
ground hy hand in moltarS, th> whole
peopl. OF the country might engage IN
the work and not accomplish 1t. II
requires an education to give d.rec-
tons for the building of bridge, to
construct railroads and to bulli steam
ships. to make watches and to pat up
printing presses, to weave cloth or T.
mold cannon. AS question 0!
economy in money state Will do we'll
TO educ ate its laborrrs.
! Education Iisniia, the labor"r. 1t
il everywhere a passport to good 4o"l-
etv, it makes frerlnen Of SAVE, ''n-
cinnatns could pIow his land, Frank,
lin could wheel home his PAPER
through the streets or vt his typ,
Hugh Miller could work in stone
quarry, and loss nothinyin the esteem
, Of any man whose esteem was worth
possessing.
Learning lignies the lowest toll:
. Earth mas nothing ignObIe but Sln an''
: ignoranc. Man working as A IN IN IL
4 respected; but working as a ln"re ami
ma he is despi.ei. If all per'o1,
, were educated via, would 10 the
+ work asks one? 4 h-rt.r question
A would be if there w-r. no eiu 'ated
? men tc economic, labor, where could
:, a sufficient nnmb"r Of l.borers be 90
tanned? An eiuc.tei man may not be
T. willing to pull at Wei ,ht with hI'
If hands; hut will coltrive earstan
5 and do the work Of many men. he
y might grow weary spinning with
G dist.tf or weaving with a hand loom
J. but lac will build great factories anc
t set machinery in motion ant make
;, more cloth than thousands could d'
" with their hands. Education does no
l. make people dislike mems work 1T onI,
l. makes them want to work more llh'
;s men.
II. Is We will now consider for one NO
d ment the relation Education bears t
H. wealth.
k Education increases the wealth of
al state in several ways. 1t makes tn
i, citizens more erterprislng. fhy Is
70 that some states are SO far ahead Of II
H. in wealth, states that have not tn
Gu same water power for nanutacturln
!. establishment 6, that are not SO RI n
a minerals, whose soil is not so produ'
1g tive, and who do not possess halt tt
'ir natural advantages that Marylan
o., o. does. ! say why is this | will tie
s az YOU why they are so far in advance
RS US. 1t is owing 10 the long continue
ct working of their grand, animated an
ig. spirited Public School System. Ito
, ,ce present Public School system
at, Maryland is continued in spirit te
lit years longer we will have an educate
ace generation and with science for be
e es. con light to guide US, We will overta
oct these states. Yes Ladies' and Cent
ed. men with intelligence to give US e
ate terprise and with our natural adva
AXE tages we will in few years leave the
., ,,o states far in the the rear. AS | Sd
;ih awhile ago education makes labor
nay fectual. 1t enables men to acco
of plish vastly more than they COT
. n., without it. An uncultivated peoI
the the work almost altogether with the hal
ven More intelligent men learn to ia
as the OK, horse or reindeer, and ma
for Use of animal strength in their laoc
'r,'o Rnt If il only in hirhly civilized CO