The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-23

that those who work, aud earn, and save,
are laxed heavily for their support, and
that the tax, unless there is some remedy
provided, bids fair Ia be increased, and
become perpetual. 1t isquitc common in
agricultural and Grange addresses, To hear
about the treatment Of children in order
to make the farm pleasant, and induce
them 10 stay there. We are advised io
raise flowers, to furnish music and keep
a nice parlor, and to ape as near as pos.
sible the customs and the display in cit
les, where children are petted, pampered,
and often spoiled. What is a spoiled
child good for on the farm or elsewhere?
And why should farmers children stay
upon the farm if they are able to do bet
ter work elsewhere?
Ii George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, and Horace Greeley had found
every thing pleasant and easy, it is not
probable that either would have been of
much use, nor is it probable that either
would ever have been heard of or
known, if they had remained on the
farm. All history teaches, and our own
observation should convince US, that
simple, plain living, industrious, steady
habits, with unAinching courage and de-
termination to meet every obstacle,
overcome it, and conquer success, is the
way and only way, to make hardy, USE
full, valuable men and women. Human
Incidence would be gratiiied if all were
ease and sunshine here, but nature has
not so decreed. There is work to do,
enough for US all, and if each can be
learned and induced to do reasonable
share, it will be better and easier for ALL
This product of the farm is so impor-
tant All item in the present and future,
that | submit whether it should not re-
ceive more consideration and more serious
thought. Are we producing good, gen.
uine, honest article, or are we moving in
the direction of effeminacy and weakness,
and mixing in counterfeit and fraud?
Would not our children make better men
and women if they were early taught
that their real wants are simple, easily
supplied, and must be provided ultimate
ly by themselves? Can they not be
taught that labor is not necessarily
drudgery, especially when they take an
interest and pride in it? Would it not
be we'll for parents to consider and judge
themselves what their children should be
taught at school, and to see that their
education is such as to enable them to do
whatever it is necessary and proper for
them to do, in the best possible manner,
omiting, if necessary, what is deemed
more high-sounding and snowy, yet of
no practical use?
1t is frightful to contemplate the
amount of idleness, dissipation, intem-
perance, pauperism, and crime in this
beautiful State of ours.-where every cne
who has health can easily earn an honest
living, and save for future use-and know
that the influences that surround the
young are not all calculated to benefit
andimprove them. If our children are
tasspain on the farms in Michigan we
sR5l idesire to make them wiser and
better than we are. If they 90 to settle
new States or to transact the business of
the country, they must have health, en-
ergy, perseverance, courage and vigor, as
we'll Us shrewdness and intelligence, 10
secure SUCCESS