The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-17
NUMBER 40.

now swung way over 10 the opposite
extreme. "Let US have practicality,"
people say; something that will pay
right off something that has money in
it; something tangible, material some
thing that will pay US a huge profit
now, without much regard to subse-
quent generations. None of your meta
physics, nor your classics Greek and
Latin are dead languages no money in
them Nor art-none but Italians care
for art, and they are a shiftless kind Of
people. We want an education that
pays % This extreme-and we see more
of il on this coast than anywhere else
in the worlds worse than the scholas-
ticism of the dark ages. We ourselves
believe most profoundly in an education
that pays; but that profit that is but for
the present moment is not profit; that
practicality which does not build for the
ages is not practieality.
Man is an animal, and therefore self
ish. He is a spirit, and therefore gener-
Gus. Selfshness includes all sins.
Education, too, the noblest form of
human energy, that instrument by
which mans personal greed ought to be
subOrdinated to the needs of a suffering
world-education has on it the serpenrs
trail. By the majority it is prostituted
to personal gain. The average man uses
his education to knock his brothers. feet
out from under them, in order that he
may stand on their PROSTATE forms.
Some study that they may mab an easy
living by swindling, rather than hard
one by working. This is a beastly, not
TO say devilish, selfishness. Some study
that they may be rich, merely for the
sake of being rich. This is sordid self
ishness. Some study that they may be
| great. This is heroic seifishuess-heroic,
I but not the less selfish. They all snatch
the food from the mouths OF unborn
generations. A few, very few-but they
are the salt of the earth-study that
they may do good.
Now, let me ask a few questions
Why do so many college students in the
/ United States, after having delivered
themselves at graduation of the most
incredibly lofty moral sentiments, be-
come within five years pot-house politi-
clans of the worst kind-men whose
education simply quadrupIes their bad
ness? What is the reason that most
lawyers would send man to the gall
lows to gain a reputation and turn loose
/ the vilest wretch unhung in order to
gain a fee? d? Why do most physicians
care more for a case than cure and
give half their drugs to keep their pa
tieuts comfortably sick +? What is the
reason-shame that it can be said-that
some ministers dare to babble of the
dreadful practices Of the ancient Baby
| lonians, when perhaps half their rich
[ parisbioners attend church simply be
cause it is fashionable and fairly skin
the unfortunate poor who fall into their
| power? How does it happen that there
are so many men in OTegOn-peshsps
even in Washington county-who spend
/ $500 year on race-horses, whisky and
tobacco, and then swear if they are
asked to give SO for church or school
How does it happen that the most de-
graded Paddy just imported for election
purposes can command the respect OF
law makers, while big Drained, great
hearted woman, who bears in her veins
the blood of four generations Of Ameri-
10 slfsar
Why do all the low-lived hoOdlums in
every town on the Pacific Coast consider
it their special privilege to abuse and
outrage the unofIendiDg Chinamen,
while the very native American citizen
Of the Denis Kearuey type can terrOrize
San Francisco for two years and half
destroy its commerce? Let one more
query suffice: Why in every town can
there be found beings in human shape
human, let US hope, in nothing else
who, for money, deal out liquid FIRE,
though they see Death and He'll watch
ing by the dOor-posts to clutch their
wretched victims The law makers see
them, too, aud then give licenses
Why?
To all these queries one answer may
be given. Our education is partial, IN
= symmetrical. We train the intellect
3 not the soul; the powers Of acquisition
2 not those of dispensetion. We teact
men to look out for self, not for th'
world. To the huge tinsel gods of Herr
and Now, we offer the incense smokins
D on the altars. We are time servers
{ bowing before the throne Of the present
e moment. But it is written by the hand
= of God himself that the education that
3 builds for to-day shall have its reward
to-day. and to-day only. The man who
builds for his own place only shall die
J in his own place.
NobIv does one Of the greatest Of liv-
, ing orators ask, ais Socrates dead? Il
, I.utber dead? i Lincoln dead? /,
| any man dead who was ever worth liv-
fng? ? Dead, dead, dead, they yet speak.
Let us supplement- these words by ask
4 ing, Why DO these men, though dead
: vet speak? Because they turied theil
5 lives in the future, and the future nevel
dies.
t The ideal education, then, symmetri
cally develops mans three-fold nature
His body must be sound aud muscular
3 otherwise he is morbid. His mind mus
D be trained; otherwise he is indolent
: Finally, his soul must sit, like king