The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-23
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he then referred To the effects of edu.
Gallon in municipal and civil affairs aod
9S4nlofced 9n bis conclusions by saving !:
Ooes it pay TO have at the bottom 9;
any city deep slough of
IGNORANT AND TURBULENT vorrps
given to drink, exasperated with Jealous
uistfust of every well.to.do citizen. in
Tue hands of clique of shrewd dema-
gogues who plump them as make.
welght, now in this party, now in that, a
perpetual menace 20 good munici ,al gov.
ernment and peril in every crisis of
pnollc affairs? Possibly dozen cities of
nlly thousand people in the United States
are we'll governed, free from corrupt
rings, good places for respectable man
Ii moderate means to live in. But YOU
know, without telling, the condition of
the majority Of these great American
Towns. 1t would have been money in
Inc treasury of the City of New York if.
tnlrty years ago, ehe could have educated
every boy in a school as good as her Free
ncauemy and every young woman In her
present Girls Normal College. There
are not half dozen cities of he first
class in the land that have not paid ten.
Ioid, IN public plunder, corrupt jobs, the
ioss OF worthy population, in all pecu.
mary ways in which a great city can
suHer, the uttermost expense of a good
system OF schools for the whole people.
Ooes 1t pay to have two.thirds of the
voters in sixteen States of this Union
unable TO read or write the ballot they
cast; to have whole races of people Of
different nationalities, with all their mar
row prejudices, in the hands al he des.
Perate demagogues who engineer the
local politics of our great American
Gommonwealth to hold the election of
PRESIDENT of the United States always
dependent on the roughs of dozen great
cities Of the North to spend eight times
as much tor liquor as for the education of
all the children in American schools; to
keep the Ship of State tossing and reel
Ing on the troubled sea Of sectional
hatred till "the whole head is sick and
the whole heart is faint" in the outlook
for better things to come?
Did you ever think how easy it would
be for the superior tenth part of the peo.
pie of the United States to get on if
matters were left to them? Could the
one hundred most thoughtful, righteous
and
MINDED STATESMEN
now in the land, from all the States. be
gathered in the Senate and compare their
real faith and hope Tor the country, there
would be substantial unity of patriotic
purpose and statesmanlike cooperation
to assure the peace of the Continent.
why, then, when these great men now
appear in the nations Legislature must
they pair off in furious debate, throw
hand grenades and explosive bombs, and
keep the country in q disgusting tumult
OF hot and senseless agitation from wear
to year? Because each of these great
creatures has at home body of constit-
uents who are too ignorant to rise to ma.
ticnal views, bound up in the little pro-
vincial conceit which insists that their
little corner Of the Republic contains all
the virtue and patriotism and must be
pushed at all hazards. So our fathers of
the State cannot be in public life the
men they would be; are shut off from
their loftiest manhood in the highest
place OF their life; must pose to the pit,
train in narrow party lines and perpet-
uate abuses that shock and grieve every
Christian citizen of the land.
We may discuss civil service, finance,
what not, in our little political clubs of
superior thinkers; may ill the journals
with millenial
ESSAYS ON IDEAL GOVERNMENT,
but while this stolid half barbarious
crowd of ignorant, selfish and violent
voters is massed IN the lower regions of
every Commonwealth there will be no
genuine reform anywhere. Not more
laws to become dead letters on the statute
books, but mora school houses, better
teachers, broader intelligence, more Wig
orous training of youth in the funda-
mental moralities in home, church and
school, is the cure for the terrible disease
of our body polite. The Congress that
can devise some way of wipiDg out this
huge black stain of illiteracy and barba-
rism from the land and giving to the
nation wiser and more virtueus body OF
voters, will be the political savior of this
people. The way to union that shall
never again fall into peril is through the
open door of inc reformed free school
house; for a generation educated to-
gether in American ideas cannot fail to
work together and form a union in deed
and truth.
DIR. Mayo spoke for nearly two hours
and halt, and during his entire lecture
held the undivided attention of his large
audience.