Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-04
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follows, commanding the earnest attention CT
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The very word education in our day suggests
school routine, scientific hiercgyphics, formidable
textbooks brstling with technicalities and still
more formidable professors behind them This sort
of scholastic aiming belongs to ageneral systematic
culture but true education must have for its object
the constitutional impro, enient of the whole man.
Man. and pot scholarship is the aim OF this educa-
ton. The constitutional Improvement of is
effected by the training of the body the training of
the and functions of the brain to the highest
degree of power and active use Humanity has
hitherto progressed from mere brutal strength to
intellectual force, and the next advance must
be to moral power. The first age Of the
world belonged to brutal force the SECOND
belonged to reason; and can readily see
thir age OF the world belongs to love, which rules
only to serve. The Supreme Ruler comes to US in
humanity, and above all in children, and calls
upon i'll their divine capabilities, which wait for
US to mature them Education must not be q trade,
but worship; and the school must become tenn
pie in which the teacher, officiating at the altar of
humanity, makes sacrifice OF himself that his race
may live better and happier life. Science pushes
us to these concus ons For every function has for
its end self preservati and the function Of edu-
cation must have for its purpose the preservation
OF the race, and, therefore, the individual must
be brought up, not for ambition, wealth or power,
ANIMALS, live in isolation, but by families and
States we are linked with
THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY,
And the condition of the race determines our own
preservation. Therefore we base education upon
the principle OF amelioration. Thus clearly
that education contains the solution OF tie prob
lem that troubles the age we live ia. w. do not
mean that sort of education which makes of us
bags filed with words, figures and facts but that
culture which develops within US power, will,
strength and character. This Is what William Penn
meant when h. said to his colonists in the first
words of his address: "Educate.n Washingtous
last bequest in his farewell address to the American
people, was again, Educate" Washington meant
when he said this that free schools should be estab
lshed for the purpose OF preserving lgovernment
by training up intelligent patriotism but the
father of his country did not foresee that under
political supervision instead OF breeding patriots
they might breed vampires, and flood the country
with physical, mental and moral wrecks. repeat
again that the most general educational problem Of
the hour is that of providing citizenship fitted to
enjoy the institutions OF free government and fitted
to develop the broad resources OF the American
domain. Applause To do this, education has
not only to train up American childhood to
fitness for it's royal perogatves, but it has also to
assinlate Ito sturdy citizenship the Heterogeneous
elements pouring in upol US from all quarters OF the
globe. 1t must uproot habits OF thought fastened
by older civilizations and give free and universal
scope to the American idea The American idea
contempates brotherhood OF citizens having com.
mon political aspirations undisturbed by phases OF
private opinion and belief. 1t means the enthrone-
melt Of
ORDER, FREEDOM AND PROGRESS.
1t means the creation of public opinion powerful
enough TO crush all fraud and political heresy here,
and capable of instructing other nations In the
pathway of political reform and progress. In the
free schools the bulwark of our nationality are I'M
planted those republican ideas which inspired our
fathers to found government where law Is the
Lares, and freedom the Penates; where there may
be jubil without a saturnala; where the
title Of property is safe as the guar
tees Of liberty and within one generation
we have seen the force Of these republican
ideas. Not many years ago had man
sat on the banks OF the Thames, manipulating with
his wheels and wires, communicating his thoughts
and obtaining true responses from the other side
of the ocean, he would have been seized and burnt
a sorcerer Even afar off we can see these IDEAS
at work in Europe; heaving under the thrones OF
monarchies wrenching at the prison do rs oil those
who have struck liberty and failed STOPPING to
uplft the dropping form OF Erin lowering over the
oblerated nationality OF Poland and moving silent
ly among the messy ruins and time-hallowed dust
Of Rome. Our forefathers wisely foresaw that the
perpetuity of our free institutions would rest upon
the education OF the youth of the nation. APP
pause.l They believed with Montesquieu that
education has for its foundation the same principles
as the State-fear under despotism, pride under a
monarchy, and
VIRTUE UNDER REPUBLIC
lie must train children 20 simplicity and self.
restraint as nothing but virtue and Intelligence can
save q republic from ending in despotlsm, corrup-
ton and anarchy. The ausere divinity Of the peace
ard prosperity of our country is also the divinity
of our educational system. 1t is she who
sssat on the mast of the Mayfower.
Who perched on the csld wihtry wood,
And as the bold bark bore onward,
On the crag of the cliff she stood;
And she heard the pilgrims peon
Over the wild waves roll
Shout unto God thanksgiving
For liberty of soul :
Then wirtry wood and beaving main
Sang as they caught the bod refrain,
For liberty Of soul p
1t may be granted without argument that there
is an immutab,e and eternal distinction between
right and wrong that the basis standard OF right
10 to be found, not in the feeling of Sc love, the
sense of utility, the impulse Of benevolence, or in
any of the changing phenomena of the human
mind, but only in the divine nature, and that ma
ture revealed in the record of creation and tie writ
ten word.
Educate man up to the proper point, make him
what he shou be. give all the powers and func
tons of his nature Fir play, and his conscience and
moral sentiments cannot be overlooked. We need
ten thousand daily lessons in school rooms, in
our business houses, in our homes on the elem ,nts
of morals the principles of truth and right, aud
law and purity, and frugality and selfcontro This
is what is needed in order TO preserve untarnshed
the national homer and glory which we have re-
ceived from the past, and in order to make strong
and lasting the foundations of the mighty empire
wi its tsemng millions fashioned by he beneficent
hands OF cur fathers, and dedicated to humanity
forever And az try to fuse into strong and
loving urity our Heterogeneous populations, and to
bind all in undying loyalty to our free nstitu IONS
let us see to it that for truth and right
shall reign supreme. tAppiause.l
MORE ToAsTING.
Mr.. Fox called on james McCiatchy to
speak of tie early pioneers and of 'slick-
ens." Mr.. McC chy responded, decliuing
to speak on the latter subjsct, but on being
importuned, made few remarks about the
"lively old boys" of the 'early days.
Mr.. Hitchcock called upon j. r. Watson to
address the company, and he did SO. He
considered it very great honor to be present
as q guest at this unique and remarkable
feast. He thought it had no parallel in Cali
fornia. He honored the men and hailed Them
with honors who had been the cause Of it as
among the best men he knew. A few years
ago the employer and the employed belonged
to different classes. There were but
two classes then-the rich aud the
poor, the mobiles and the serfs or laborers.
The latter did all the labor for the former,
and the honor of doing it was deemed reward
enough added to the privilege accorded them
to live. All this is changed to-day. APP
plause. The change is due a good deal to
gu0poWuer, ana gOOu zeal more TO Lne
printing press [applausel which he held to
be the true savior of mankind. This firm
hes taught lesson to all great employees, and
he wished the Central Pacific Railroad, for
which he had the honor to labor, would take
a leaf out of their book and copy it. He
gloried in the men who believe the employe
Is as good as the employer, and believe in the
words of our declaration, that all men are
free and equal. Formerly the employe
cringed to the employer. Now he NESTS him
ss man face to face. When the employee
has done his duty and received bis pay,
no other obligation of necessity exists.
[Applause He referred to the men who built
the Central Pacific Railroad as Sacramento
men. [Applause.] Here they conceived the
idea of the road; here they carried it out.
Some Of the most remarkable men the coast
has ever had sprapg from this community
(applause] just as did the builders of the
great railroad, and ever which he had the
honor to run the first train. He saw that
great enterprise begin in little Office in Sac
ramento. and now the company is the en-
ployer of IA 600 men, and pay out in S.cra-
mento city in the neighborhood CT S100 900
every month for wages. He gloried in such
men, and wished the land had more of them.
He wished others would copy the example of
the hosts of the evening. He believed others
could succeed as they had, and other estab-
lishments be built up on like principles. He
referred to and sketched the Krupp steel
works of Germany, and its system of pen.
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