The Morning herald., 1876-02-17
THE HERALD.
WILMINGTON, FEBRUARY II, 1876
=, ,corru1.sORY = EDUCATION.

committed, and vice taught by idle boys
and young men, than by all the rest o.
our population. Men without an indus
trial education, fill the prisons Of the
country-swarm over its roads, terror'zing
and plundering as they wander back and
forth. They usurp the Government OF the
large cities, and rob their inhabitants by
iniouitious taxation. They pander to the
vices of the poor, by opening drinking
nlaees innumerable in the great centres OF
population. Much more could be laid to
their charge, but we stop here.
This is not overstating the case. Inquire
of any one of the members of this un'
taught army, Of idle consumers, whether
he can read or write, in vast majority OF
cases. you will find he can. Ask him if
he ever learned trade, can he do a job
about the, house, barn or farm, mend
shoe coat or set of harness:-anything in
fact which demands educated skill Of hand,
and the invariable answer will bel can
can do til never learned any trade
knew nothing Of farming, confessing In
fact-that he is one of class OF human
locusts. who eat up the products OF indus
trious men and women, and give no re-
turn to society.
The destiny of the human race is volun-
t,ry labor. God in Genesis fore-ordaine d
j. 80. Voluntary labor is therefore duly
because, it is an act of obedience to
the command that In the sweat
of the face thou shalt eat bread" II
80 4: is it not a correlative duty imposed
upon the Government Of State, to see
that every one of its children are trained
in the ways, which will make compli'
ance with the command easy to the indi-
vidual, and profitable to the community
The State protects the factories, and wor-
shops within its borders; it lends to the
owners of those factories and shops, its
power to collect debt, enforce their contracts,
and to assert the right to rule and regulate
their employees while at work for this
protection taxes are held to be an equiva-
lent. In view of the fact that idlers -
use up a great part Of the taxation, in
prisons, poor houses, hospitals, &C., ans
further tax the citizens by the msgoyern,
men. Of rrgs, and mendicancy, ought nt'
the State to assert its right of protection
and compel the trade education Of hel
youth The army of idlers, are evel
recruiting itself from the rising generation
and each year it increases its numbers.
II the growth be proportionably as larg
for many more years, the tax upon industr.
will become so unbearable;-that it will
10 under, or harsh and bloody method
will remedy the evil. Ifuncorrected we vii
enter the broad path, along which 50 man
nations have gone to destruction. Citizen
NAV combine into rent payers and ia
psyers associations to rid themselves {
rings Of thieves, who have usurped tn
government of cities. Once in Will
thev will drive some rascals to the wall
but 30 long as forty or fifty per cent. of on
boys, are graduating into the class OF idle
a. they grow up:-there can be no hoI
for honest government in cities. Why
The smart bright lads whose moral natur
are fairly trained, will be,ome politician
a. in that profession--for it is one, they 81
no apparent palpable dishonesty; by the
aid, the leading ringsters will always
able to rule, and rob honest men
un;ust taxation. To talk Of reform NOV
ments, independent action of citizens {
yorcement of municipal and state POLITE
asa means to an end, is yeritable nonsen
Go up to first principles bravely, a
s.rike at the root of the evil, if you da
So long as the majority Of the boys Of
city, are permitted by the state to grow
without industrial education--our prise
will he full. our roads crowded wi
ramps, our cities hopelessly under t
rule of men, whose necessities conn
them te steal large portion of the ia,
they impose upon industry.
- 1t must be evident to every one, W
has courage enough to look straight
things as they are, that as rule the
dusries Of the country are dependant il
great measure upon the incoming Of skill
mechanics from abroad. In the city
Philadelphia, which we take as an ill
tration, there is hardly an Ameriean-bt
man who can make a coat, very few W