The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-22

on the intellectual plane, and If there
could he no moral element in the educa-
tion, they would be no b tter,no happier
in the end; there would be as much of
fraud AID strife. murder and misery, as
much OF poverty, despair and suicide as
when we began. Two OF, the most In
teIlectual, brilliant and educated men ]
have ever known Terminated their lives
by their own handg, because all their in
telligance brought ne happiness; their
lives were hollow mockeries; and just
such despairing mockery is that splen.
did civilization in which literature, art
science. machinery and architecture
make an outward display, while the
whisky -shop, the street mob, the work.
house, the penitentiary, the police court,
the founding hospital aud the insane
asylum tell the inside story Gifts misery.
We have had too much of the intellect
ual without the moral education; and
although the world is far better now
than in the days Of the Roman Empire,
lt is still cranmed with misery and
crime. The laborers Of Europe. living
on from one to three dollars week, are
kepS in squald ignorance, ard their
bread is taken py taxes 10 feed four mil
lion men who live only for the purpose
Of homicide by bulletand bayonet. The
great nations Of Europe devote their
wealth to standing armies and the debts
of war; and while they profess to repre-
sent the highest civilization OF Christen-
dom, whicl processes allegiance to the
law of love. they live as brigands do,
with their swords pointed az each others
throats, every ore of them believing
that if they could not defend thems Ives,
their so-cajed Christian nejghbore
would invade, conquer, rob and cnslave
them Each nation thus declares that it
considers its neigbbors an organized
bandjtti, and thisaniversal opinion must
have some foundation. Gloomy as Ii
seems, this is the universal condition
which 'is now, ever has been, and ever
shall be- unless moral education can
change the scene. That noble apostle of
education, my friend Horace Mann,
(who IS now among the saints,) said in o
lecture often delivered
1.-THE world is to be redeemed. In six thousand
years, with exceptions few and far between the
earth has been q dweiling-pl of woe. There
has not been an hour since it was peoplcd when
war has not ragged like a c0n1agration on some
part of the eurface In the haughtiness Of despo-l
tism on the one hand. and the debasement Of
vasealage on the other. the idea Of human broth
erhood has been lost. The policy of tho wisest
nations has been no higher than to punish the
crimes they permitted, instead Of rewarding tie
virtues they had cherished. Throughout the
earth until lately, and now in more than three Of
it's five grand divisions the solder and the priest
have divided and deyoured it. The mass OF the,
human race has sojourned with animals, that is.
in the region of the animal appetitcs; and
though the moral realms have been discovered,
yet how feebly have they been colonized But 1t
is impiety to suppose that this night of darkness
and cloud will always envelop the earth. A
efgnsr gay ano @ Is It's DAY
served for those who train up children in the way
they should go. Through this divincly-appointed
instrumontality, moro than by oil other agencies.
the night OF ignorance and superstition is to be
swords beat into plOw shares captiyes
ransomed, the rivers Ofplenty made TO run where
the ne rivers OF lntemperance now Cow. AT this
ing to mingle in the conflict
IF teachers are to be the chief instru-
ments for the redemption. of mankind,
they must rise TO the dignity of their
apostolic office; and the very first requis
lite is that the honors and rewards. the
salary and the eocial position of teachers
should beequal to those of any oLhe pro-
fession, and that young men and women
of the best abilities and social position
should be induced to resort to the nor
NAL schoolsas they now resort TO colleges
of Law, medicine ana divinity. and
should consider the diploma Of al
qualified teacher, earned by four years
special study, the most honorable parch~
ment that any university can give, at|
once passport to profitable occupationl
and to social respectability, because i'll
would be (from proper normal unlver-|
sity) an evidence Of tho character Of al
thorough gentleman OF more diversified
culture than we fad in any other profes-
sion--competent to instruct most physi
clans in Psychology and hygiene, most
clergymen ia philosophy. and most at
torneys in political economy and history.
But to secure such men we must Offer
salaries of from fifteen hundred to three
Thousand dollars. Germans flourish
on smaller saleries because they have al