Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-10-30


would have become yisibly great IN tue
forum or on the field. !.
In order then TO be in the rishi eohli-
ton for raising men. we must, mere u,
Vermont, hold fast to those old-.sshioneu
customs which favor industry, honesty;
frugality the plain fundamental virtues o. I
character. Now say this because thinS .
il needs IN be said We have arrived at /
that poipt in what we call, and what IN /
some respects IS modern progress "neTe /
these old traditions and habits have 10
maintain n struggle for existence wi'h "
posing habits and influences spreading ou'
from our cities and even reaching u iFo'h
foreign lands IL Is already question
whether the plain dignity ana s'hti9
grandeur OF the typical Vermont chsfacicr
can hold its own, or whether II Is ID Dc sup
planted by the smartness-, the dappcT senil!-
itv which false and heartless culture Is
producing elsewhere The problem. az !
said before. Is not how 70 keep at bay All
new ideas and modern Improvement, bnt
how 10 maintain in their integrity the OH
principles amid all changes OF manners
\ man can be industrious and yet ma time
for books and society he can be frugal
and vet make his home the abode OF taste
he can be honest without being cnurlish- w
as Mr.. Morrill, put it IN his Rutland a idres-
While a gentleman, Sl-calie1, does NOT
,eraIlv succeed as a farmer. there j. NJ
reason whv a farmer should not be real
gentlemap." Indeed do not know OF any
thing which the world more want to-day
than a generation Of cultivated iarmer--
men whose Intelligence. tnrut ana t-S'S
shall make farm lie attractive ano tlrA INC
current now setting t0wRrd the e4citeiHehi
and friyolity Of city lie back to the SIN
pler and purer enjOYments OF country ne
| think So that day coming IN SeTm'hi
and rejoice over 1t. But II tae Gay s'e-
comes when. In the general sentiment n4
Vermont. 1t ceases 10 be respocteoio % ~
;ndnstrious and frugal, and becomes respect
abIe m live in elegant idleness and 10 over
snend ones income IN making Cl-p-al
Il ever that DAY comes when the hones-:
hardworking Young man and ihe ou'. anu
thrifty Young woman are looked down upon,
and the trifier and spendthTlit admired anu
env;el from tina, DAY vermont ctA~- -o
raise men and women ard hard a. - "o.
soil and cold her climate, She must de>sti'l
IN the humber task OF raising 'oo- o @li'-
port fools
In the training oil men u U.s. A4r4i3 le
] ce.ss-y 10 say that good schools ana goo-
/ educational influences N general pi-y
most important part Il Is essential llai
/ the lower schools give 10 the whole popu-a
/ zion a careful training IN the rullment- %.
/ knowledge il Is equally essential t-a-
GOOD proportion of the community receive
a higher training. The general iute.-ae-iiI
tone of community depends greatly oh
the number Of highly educated men 'i-.-
tered through it. Tel me Row G2ui me-
Of superior intelligence there axe u III.
Vermont village. and yol haze GOA -'i-
| substantially what grace ui ll.t-'i='ll--
! n-evails throughout the entire community e
conld cuess " neither the people generally
read the New York Ledger or tie AiidHl
NoptLbi. whether the village supports
one of The public Libraries oi whose value
-hr Governor las spoken 50 justly "
whether the only books thai circu!atel
ware the dime novels THAI passed irom d. y
~ bov whether good nigh school W@s
sustained with the hearty support Oh me
Community. OF whether by general consent
IL wa understood that reading. wIitIns
and cinbering was education enough re"
ENGLAND started cut into history cl--i' li.-
ous for an educational system alapi-l Gu
secure the Intelligence necessaTi I5f lIeo-
men Wlv had she this good fortune
Rscers-a vtrv large NUN heI Oh the iJtn--
o. If the New England colonies anu many
of their leading men for the h-s, genera
tinn were educated mcu, c1-es
trained 10 English and continental la.'ai-
sites ] suppose the general t9ac %. -'
cietv has ucFcr since been 80 ln,li-t. -l-. -
IL the earl, days, because re ri'p1lt4'l
Of hirn-h-aI scholars a-- never u,tI
great Look ~ c,1;lluc-mJ>t pr -i-- o-
men Of iutcllecg Of Gnv country DO LiT =
Gr three hundred Years - anu WY
Es.ouse she has had So large lrtll1
H..r or H o. A. .
ted all Through her p0pulation-ln a-r li-
ms and parish schools il the Dr. .irs-i .--
and arts-where they have kept up re-
nect and ambition for learning an 1uE al.
The peonle The universal Glul>Iln 10 .ii--
i-ed education tends o. sclp.I-m. g. i--
nrevalenes Of shallow notions % tni-- -'
unless this tendency Is corrected % i-u ia-
h1euce OF men % pr0iO1n1ar news ana
more extensive know ledge Livery nos -r-
then some plausible iallacy gets started ID G
[ community overcoming and Et--l- pos
session of one and another lucQml c-t-l %
master il 1t gets mCreanl more leal "-l ---i' 2
begins toassume a Threatening ol--Lc--' ,.--'
by and by some grave man.wno has o. e. j
encountered the fraud ia his s.a-le- Oh
former times. or has gotten the peue,l----A
10 detect .aI!acies through -heir Ll-=nlsc7
comes to the front and speazs t-e uce-e-
word Of exposure and ex0rclsm, ana inc
thing sinks away and die. - u va Ni'A
Fourierism. for example. ana splr.i-Iai -
pings. and let q hopefully ADJ an IVY
deelnable currency. On smaller scale '-'-
process is going or, OF ought 10 oe =u4"e ou
almost every dsy IL almost every comm ul--
~ A Young man who las the p0ssI5lIla'
Of a frst-c!as- man IN him. Il be has right
leadiurs. j. Liable 10 be miS!ed and utterly
spoilt bv some specious lie. which never
could have become current IL be- lcishol1-
hood If there had been IN u one ma1 OF
I lgrre intelligence and well maiure- oFla-
ions | doubt not We al know Mc- oi
whom we find ourselves repeatedly saying
what man that might have been u be had
been set right at an important l1nctlre,
when false opinion got hold oi hlm and
twisted his moral nature al aWry
Vermont has not, at the prc-en; cay "a
sufficiently large number Of these men OF
trained and commanding intellectual power.
Let me put a test question t0- year
past the newspapers nave had sood deal
to say about the approaching transit OK
Venus How many OF y1d know OF d ia~G
I in your town from whom an lr4 llrinE
reader could vet the very moderate amour.
of scientific information which would enable
him to understand the nature Oi the prot
lem In case of d question arising 10 tle
SUNDAY school Is 10 the meaning OF an OK
preston in the English version. IRON AJW
many men beside the minister. could you
get an account OF the original doubt
whether Vermont ha- as many well edu-
Gated men in proportion 10 her population.
as she had forty years ago. Il she is going
{ 10 maintain her position educator OF men,
she must increase the proportion. II er-
mont should reach the ratio Of Scotland,
[ she would nov have 400 young men
in course OF collegIats training w DO
can give Us any good reason why
We should have d smaller ratio Khan scot
/ land Imagine that ratio kept up Ior
/ generation, and thirty years from now
what a change there would be n the in
/ tel!eelral tone OF cur state, in ihe intell-
1 eeace displayed on our farms, In our com
mon schools, in the arts and professions.
Again, in order - raise men, we must
provide Tor the culture Of the patriotic
spirit. Patriotism l. one OF the prime
forces Of character. lie who has 10 love
of country Is less than man. lie in
whose breast love OF country Is glowing
affection, ready on occasion TO fire up into
q flaming passionate only-is true man.
Through the patriotic feeling come 70 rs
some OF the most elnObling Influences TO
-
it We associate with the heroes and sympa-
thizs with the heroic IN our national has
tory we claim kinship with all the great
and good who have wrought their lives into
the common lie of the nation , we feel their
greatnsss of soul communicating itself to
u. and awakening in Us noble and gener-
Gus emotions. SoiRc men. carried away by
the vanity of speculation. haze invented
kind Of philosOphic patriotism whose cOun-
try should be the world, y hose citizenship
mankind. whose allegiance should be rem
dered 20 the laws OF the universe But
such dead distractions have 10 power to
swell the heart with great hopes and fears.
OF stir the blcci to heroic action. The men
without a country, the men whose patriot
ism Is 80 broad that it cSnEot conhue itself
10 any one land. the Anacharsis C.cStsss,
the orators and advocates of the human
race" are sure to be men without eharac-
ter, and ere, by the concentrated breath OF
mankind. missed off the stage o. history
while the men WIN are willing to strive I