The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-23

;n. .hotheis out IN Texas are moulded
INTO lew kingdom Of God in uiH the ,1;1
oefL, ,,s, 10 the same way the Comnnn @ mm'
Weaith of Massachusetts. the ita,, Tin;taa
STATES OF America, are lifted ali the ,eo ,;,s !
nearer the ideal State and nat;nn ; ~. t,uie =
good system of schooling for ali The cS; ~ !
1ren and youth. There can be ~ ~
neaithy growth of State while i,s love, nU
cia:ses are groveling in ignorance snner. v.
stluon and all the vices tha. wait thera.
On. II the basement tory of your honse
Is under ground, without sunshine ~ Uaue uon
,liatlon, 1t will be in vain that the me- mi.
tress never goes below her lnxnr;oms
orawing-room or shuts herself in 'uo tho
most exclusive chamber under ,ia de .uc
ne aeaoly malaria will crawl up through
.;y S;sety Joint and -nny and smite with
ues,auc'lon ;nma the ih' st carefully guarded
.nnia.e ,.aaI OF the house. In vain, in this
modern world, does an upper class in anv nv
;3.I.e ;sa,a,; attempt to keep itself in proud
THE COMMON HERDn
Oh base and neglected humanity helov
Ihat social ugh at the bottom of so.
cieiy Is perpetual reservoir to every son m
and daughter of the most select fam;Iu ;T,'
anu III Inc very heart of the noblest
~" uuaSenoia Se VIII come up a brutal boy, or
.he loveiiest daughter of the most deyout
.ouse "ili De smitten with venal contain .
,natlon; !; as If the floor of the great par.
l1r were full of trap-doors, and the peo.
Pc dropping through all the time into
ioql, D0ttomless vaults beneath.
Dr. White, of New Orleans. q LEADING
sanitary authority, says that city will
never be healthy till it is lifted bodily
OUT OF The swamp and set up high and
dfy above the surface of the river.
twenty-five years ago the people Of
Chicago put screws under their houses
and lifted their young city up to drv
iand, where it is now becoming one of
the most beautiful towns in America
30 must it be with society in this Repub.
liG. No polishing up of select class of
scholars, no natural selection" or "sur.
vlval of the fi!test," in the shape of a
little clique of statesmen, no social
upper ten" in Bos or in Richmond
Will meet our case, while the great base.
ment story of the Union is, as now. an
everglade, half mud and half firm land
two-thirds of the
foIEhS OF SIXTEEN SOUTHERN STATES
unable to read and write, hundreds of
thousands of people in our Northern
cities in o mire Of beastly ignorance and
all that comes of that abomination
while millions on millions Of our people
who can read and write are only grown
up children. not knowing enough to
keep out of fire and water" what can
We hope but just what we now hsye-a
great troubled sea tossed by every tenn
pest, threatening every sacred interest of
humanity with wreck. What the people
need is no little patent medicine. war.
ranted to cure in six easy doses, but the
great screw ct true system of education
for all people under the very mudsills of
the nation, worked with all the power of
the Republic, till the lowest class in the
land is high and dry above the earth,
lifted into the blessed light Of intelli-
gence, religion, refinement and the mo-
rality of the golden rule. And because
this is work 30 vast and so constant,
must We, in the most favored portions of
our country, never let 60 our hold, listen
to nobody who disparages the peoples
school, insist that the children of our
Commonwealth shall have all the oppor-
tunities of this new age, and then insist
that all portions of the Republic shall
share our privilege till the whole Union
is "solid" fo- the children.
And let uc not fall into the weakness
Of thinking anybody can suffer from the
true elevation of the mass Of the people.
The European idea of "leveling" is to
pull down the high and blend all in com
mon to blow up the Emperor, mob the
Pope, shoot the landlords and boycott
your opponents.
THE AMERICAN WAY IL TO LEVEL UP.
Place the screw under the basement OF
your Chicago house and, of course, the
servants in the basement story are lifted
tip into the light and air. But the family
in the parlor, the distinguished guest in
the chamber, the schoolboy reading his
Latin in the little bedroom up in the
mansard, are all lifted in their turn and
each of them is a little nearer the sky
than when the screw began to reyolye.
If there is anybody in Massachusetts, in
the United States, now in lofty place
from real desert the lifting up of the
whole people will elevate him, and the
due relation hatween great aud small will
still obtain. If there is any man or class
Of men at the top who have reached the
summit by playing upon the fears, the
hopes or the prejudices of an Ignorant
and base common herd, the good of the
whole demands that they should come
down and the lifting of the masses will
bring them to their level. The native
superiorities of men are given by God for
the blessing of all, and when all men
become intelligent, yirtuous and refined,
then first shall we be able to appreciate
and use the noblest gift of the highest
men and the upper class of every State
will be like Mont Blanc, the crown Of q
hundred miles of glorious mountain land,
known as the top Of Europe only because
the rising sun first gilds its "bald, awful
head" and fingers latest and most ten
derly upon its crimson snow drifts
through the slow-declining day.. Every
man living in the country has before him
Il rival object lessons on the curse OF
ignorance and the blessing OF Intelligence
in the life of the farmer. Look IN upon
the store at the crossroads, the little
prairie railroad station, or the old time
little red tavern of my boyhood. What
HELL ON EARTH
can be made inside one little dingy hovel
by one ignorant, brutal man whose sole
idea of trade is to get his neighbor's
money, to plumber q plantation OF pool
negroes of their little earnings, TO. get
mortgage on every small farmers mousse
to entice every weak man into snari O.
debt, to poison every boy that sits ar
hour amid its cloudland of bad tobacco
worse whiskey and the disgusting twad
die of scandal, profanity and obscenitJ
that makes up the mighty talk OF the
ring about the winter stove. But l cal
recall one country store where for dozeI
l...J fo,,l otorv a atrinf