Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-02-22


Exercises, including Debate.-Quitt
a large audience assembled at th'
Public School Building Tuesday
evening in response to invitations O.
the officers of debating society com
posed of pupils of the school.
|. William B. Jones, president, and
John Williams, secretary, were in
their places and introduced the exer-
cises by the routine duties of calling
the roll, reading former proceedings,
etc. The programme was executed
as follows:
MuSic-Miss Ida Keller.
Select Readsngs-"Who's Afraid p
Miss Agnes Davis; Truth in Par
enthesis' Miss Ramsay Scott; con-
tributions and editorials from the So
ciety paper the Lyceum Herald, by
Miss Ellen Mccartney, editress.
Debate-"Which is the greater
cause of misery and crime-ignorance
or incompetence p
DANIEL KRAPF-Farst 4 firmative.
The ignorant classes Of society are
those who lie, steal ETC., because they
do not comprehend the Nervousness of
such crimes. Lord Bacon said
knowledge is power The ignorant
man, then, has no power. Truthful
and honest men are not dangerous
members of society, and education
teaches men to be truthful and hon
est. Incorporate men generally
have pious wives whose influence can
be exerted upon their better ratrree.
The ignorant man 8 wife can do little
with him because he has no knowl
edge, and his family, under his con
troll, can hardly be better than him
self. He is open to corruption and
other equally evil inhuences-all Of
which produce the largest degrees of
misery and crime. Drinking is not
the only means If intemperance. Je-
sus was the only really temperate
character. In all evils, whatever the
effects of incompetence may be, the
ignorant are most easily led into them.
JOHN BEANE-F~at Negative.
Intemperance is the worst of all
evils. Every day the papers recort
the most direful results of intemper.
ance The peace and hope of FAM
lies are daily broken up by the de-
struction of promising sons. Prom
Uses are broken, trusts betrayed the
end beggary, sometimes murder, or
suicide. In other homes it is bloat-
ed husband, wretched wife and dirty
children. The money goes to the
drinking saloons. After all the mis-
cries experienced in this world, how
are such to appearat the Judgment ?
GRIFFITH T. JoNEs--lSecond A firm
atire
Ignorance is one of the greatest in
struments Of Satan. 1t is the toun-
tain of envy, jealousy and ingratitude.
The people in Eden were fooled by ig-
nora nee into eating the forbidden fruit
the crime which produced all the woes
that ever existed Through ignor-
ance Annanias and Sapphire commit
ted more fearful sin thar intern
perance. The Incorporate man is al
ways more pliable to good influences
than the ignorant man. The Ignorant
doesn't know ne is ignorant. In relig-
ion he is incapable of taking those
measures necessary to save his soul.
JOHN WILL1AMs-Second Negative.
Who are moro miserable than q
drunkard's wife and children In
temperance IS the parent OF ROBBERY
and murder and the largest patron Of
asylums.; of disappointed hopes
lodged in young man by fond parents.
It is the destroyer of business and
clothes it's votarles in rags, 1t fosters
profanity, ruins credit, and fills our
jails and psnitentiaries. IGNORANCE
is bliss The Ignorant man is happy
in his way This speaker closed with
very pretty peroration, hoping tenn
perance would 50 before, education
following after, in the good times
coming.
RICHARD B. MoRGAN-Thud Afrm-
attve.
The field having been pretty we'll
gone over, this speaker, the most
youth full of the corps of debaters, con-
tented himself with very short ar
gument, creditably maintaining the
proposition that ignorance is the SUI
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