The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-10

If our national existence as free and in
dependent people, It affords me great pleas
eto reeur to the advancement that has /
been made from the time of the colonies.
One hundred years ago we were people |
numbering only three millions. Now we i
-number more than forty millions. Then, |
Industries were confined almost excih- /
=sively to tillage of the soil. Now manu-
iacturies absorb much of the |
labor Of the country ouE liberties remain |
9nimpaired, the bondsinen have been treedd
from slavery; We have become possessed /
Of the respect, If not the friendship. Of all |
civilized nations our progress has been
great IN all the arts; In science, commerce, |
navigation, mining, mechanics, law medi. |
cine, ETC.; and in general education the |
progress Is likeWisei encouraging. Oar
thirteen States have become thirty eight m
Gliding ColoFado,yhich has taken the steps
10 become State, and eight TerfiteEes
Including the Indian aud Alaska, exelndfSg
s Colorado, makingsa territory exsendiRe
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. On thesl
south He have extended 10 the gulf Of Mex
leo, and IN the west from the Mississippito
the Pacific. One hundred years ago the
cotton gin, the steamship, the railroad, the
Telegraph, the reaping and sewing and
modern printing machines and numerous
other Inventions Of scarcely less value TO
5nr business, and happiness, were entirely
unknown. In 1176 manufactures scarcely
existed in all this vast territory, In 1870
more thal 9, 00O, 600 persons were employed
in manufacturing, producing more than
$2,I0O, 100000 of produce, an amount an
nually nearly equal to our national debt.
numbered people neatly equal to the whole
population of l776 were engaged in the
g. one occupation of agriculture in 1870. So
numerous and diversified had become the
occupations of our people that less than
six millions out of more than forty millions
we're so engaged. The extraordinary effect
- produced in our country by a resort TO
such occupations has built market for
the products of fertile lands distant from
the sea board andAhe markets of the world
The American system OF working various
. and extensive manufactures, next to the
pillow and the pasture, and adding tonnect-
ing railroads and steamboats,, has produc
ed in our distant country results not equal
led by the intelligent past of other nations.
The ingenuity and skill of American me.
chanics has been demonstrated at home
and abroad in q manner most hattering TO
their pride. But, for the extraordinary
genius and ability Of our mechanics. the
achievements ofsour sagriculturists, mer
chants and transporters throughout the
country would have been impossible of at
tainment. The progress Of the miner has
also been great. In coal our production
was small. Now many millions of tons are
mined annually. So with iron, which form
ed scarcely any part of our product cen.
turY ago. We now produce more than
the world consumed at the beginning of
our national existence. Lead, zinc
aud copper, from being articles OF
e impoa. We may expect to be large ex-
porters of in the near future. The devel-
opement of gold and silver mines through
out the States and Territories has not only
been remarkable, but has had large in-
huence upon the business of all CONNER
cial nations. Our merchants in the last
u, hundred years have had success and have
- = Established regulations for enterprise pro
gress and integrity unsurpassed by the
people OF older nations This good name
is not confined % their home, but goes out
on every sea and every port where COM
merce visits. With equal pride we can
80 point to our progress in the learned profes
sions. As we are now about to enter on
our second centennial, commencing oul
manhood as a$ationjit is well to look bach
upon the past and study what viii be bes
to preserve and advance our future great
ness. From the fall Of Adam for his trans
sression to the present day, no nation has
as ever been free from threatened danger tC
its prosperity and happiness. We should
o. look to the dangers threatened and remedy
them, 50 far as lies in our power.
- IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION.
We are a republic, whereof one MAJ il
as goodas smother before the law, and un
der such form of government it is of tht
greatest Importance that all should be pos
sessed ofeducation and Intelligence enough
to cast vote with a right understanding
OF its meaning. 4 large association
of ignorant men cannot for any
49, considerable period oppose a successful re
sistance to: tyrenpy.J The educated and in
telIigent will control, whether directed b,
the demagogae or by priests. The educa
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necessity for the preservation of our insti
tutions. They are worth preserving beeans
they have secured the greatest good to tn
greatest proportion. The republican is tn
best Of any form Of government devised
All other forms of government ap
proach il in proportion to tn
general diffusion of education and indie
- pendence of thought and action 1t is tn
primary cause of the advancement in al
that has marked our progress in the pas
- century.
icONsTIrrrioxAL- AMENDMENT sUGGEsfED.
/ suggest for your earnest consideration
and most earnestly recommend it, that
constitutional amendment be submitted t
the Legislatures of the several States for rat
ification, making 1t the duty of each of tn
several States to establish and foreve
!. maintain free public schools, adeQuateto tb
> education of children in the Trddimsntaf
-. branches within their respective limits
regardless of sex, color or birthplace, an,
torbidding the teaching in said schools o
- Atheistic or Pagan tenets and prohibiting
the granting of any school funds schoo
taxes, or any part thereof, either by legis
ahye, municipal or other authorities for III
benefit of any other objects of ans natur
or kind whatever.
CHURCHES SHOULD BE TAXED.
In connection with this important ques
ton / would also call your attention to tn
importance of correcting an evil that, i
permitted To continue. viii probably leat
to great trouble in cur land befor
the close Of the nineteenth century
1t is the accumulation of vas
amount of, untaxed church property
In $780, Believes the church property o
~ the United States which paid no tax mu
- nicipal or state, amounted to about SEA,