The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-07

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will not permit,
We conclude, therefore, that the deluc
tons OF reason and the conclusions Of eX
peicnce concur in the establishment Of III,
truth tina, intelligence and morality IRE es
stntial 10 our success as a people and ouI
pcrmanence as government.
The inquiry then arises, what means car
we adopt for the promotion Of intelligence
and morality among the people, and there
by obtain pledge against the con,ngcn.
clcs Of the futurel So far, in the history
OF our country there have been sufficient
intelligence and morality among the
people 10 maintain our position uadcI
the favorable circumstances with which We
have been surrounded; for it cannot be dc.
MED that circumstances have grcatly'flyOr-
cd Us. lnccd not mention them. But con
sldering our present situation and its in
dications, is there no cause for anxiety!
The great increase Of population, the
greater increase in wealth, the rich richer,
the poor poorcEas il has always been and
perhaps will always be, the great comb.
nation Of business, often very destructive
Of business; the almost necessary aDsorp.
ton Of power by the federal government,
extending over country stretching from
ocean 10 ocean the success with which many
Of our legislative bodies have
been used and controlled by dcsiging
ana mcTccnaIy men in aud cut Of them, and
the low estimate in which many OF such
bodies are held chiefly for that reason,
party politics, partisan politics, which
seems TO regard the party as Synonymous
with the country or the government Itself,
These and many other features Of the pres.
cnt outlook, which | might mention, are
certainly not reassuring. They dispel from
our minds the false notion that we are
not TO be judged as other people are or,
have been judged, They warn Us that we
are no exception to the rules which the eX-
peTicnce Of the nations and Of the ages has
established, They warn US that, though
every sail may be spread TO the
breeze and the ship be making a
speed which 10 vessel ever attained
before, yet the rock and the whir!poo. are
still in the ocean 10 destroy al! those who
will not shan the track which led 50 many
to destruction.
Many OF those things n which the cOun-
try Is making great progress may not, after
all, conduce most 10 lis rva! and true vel
fare. Rapidly Of growth in nature is not
indicative Of long and vigorous existence.
Indeed il seems 70 Ne universe! law that
only those things shall endure and remain
permanent which have required long years
of time for their growth and maturity. The
greater our extent and our wealth, the
greater our danger; the greater
our speed; the greater our danger;
the greater our intelligence ana the better
our morality, the greater our safety,
The experiences Of the few years past
have caused many 20 teei that We occupy
an unsteady seat, ana hence the desire !or
some steady, strong HANDS 10 take hold and
holds while this great empire rises and
grows ana ills the whole OF tlis part Of the
earth. But the steady, strong hands when
are 10 hold u, il We are held al all are the
steady, strong hands Of a yirtuous and in.
te..igent people. And if their hold is ever
.o0sed or Oroken,we vii! lind in It's stead the
stern, strong gross Of imperial power.
This is the philosophy of the matter ;
this is the lesson Of history. II speaks TO
Us in the steady, grave tones Of the phllo.o-
pher; il speaks 10 Us in the silent voice Of
history which says, remember those VINO
have gone before you; remember the ex.
pcrimcnts and the failures, the heights to
which they rose and tie depths 10 which
they fell remember, and see 70 It that YOU
follow not in the path which led them 10
ruin.
But il our safety is in the virtue and intel.
ligence Of our people, how can we best pro.
mote virtue and intelligence among them
We canuot look 10 the men Of 70 day, for
of them there can be 10 expectation, Ii is
TO the men and women Of Tomorrow the
children Of to-day, that we must look. To
them We must look as our hope; 10 them
we must !ook for our redemption from the
evils Of today. We look 10 them when we
look 70 our schools, 10 our teachers,
to our boards Of education, to our
Libraries, 10 our news counters,
to our literature. These and everything
else which enters into the education and
training Of the children should receive our
careful attention.
While, as profcsscdly good citizens we
ard required TO promote actively promote
the great cause Of education. we are re-
ouired at all times TO demand the fullest
Of those distinctions which
must ever exist in all good society, between
that which is yirtuous and that which is
vicious, between that which tends TO moral.
ity and that which tends to immortality;
and the boundary should never be left OBJ.
scure, Carefully drawing our distinction,
scparatings the wheat from the chat and
never acting hastily, we should ever be
found firm and mistaken in our adherence
to that which we know and feel TO he right
But the work of education, the work of
training intellectually and morally, is a
work to be carefully performed. This is
no place for bunglers. The work to he
done, the deiicacy and variety Of the mate.
rails to be handled, require q workman
worthy OF the name-a workman who
run knows that the work is and how it
should be done, knows and appreciates the
greats trust committed to his hands.
Beside this, there is the great world of
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