The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-06-08

The great forensic effort Of the 27tl
congress of 1.-THE United States il
1929 was the fulsome burst of .,ora
tory of Mr.. Webster on the Foot
resolutions, more excellent by ia
n in it's delivery than in its results
The great speech of the 47th con
} gress in 1882 was the able argumen
of Mr.. Carlisle of Kentucky upol
the tariff, demonstrating with
mathematical precision the astound
ing fact that under the disguise O
revenue tariff, 100000. of peopl,
of the United States are annually
paying tribute of 4S per cent OF
the clothes they wear and imple
ments of agriculture they use to the
enrichment of an aristocracyL o.
). 100000. Oratory has ceased t.
be defamation and gesture, and has
become argument and reason 7base6
upon research and investigation
This is noticeably so inE new
countries where once the impulse oi
bold adventure and thrilling. ~ex,
ploits impaired their spirit to the
hustings and the bar, but where now
commerce and exchange III have
brought the country to the basis OF
purely business dealings We
must here in the south realize and
teach young men that rhetoric
must be subservient to mathematics,
fiction to historical truths, oratory
must yield to argument, faith to
securities, and that the great object
of education is to make of boys
business men. ia I'D
1t is not education alone that
makes men, but it is the use to
which they put it. Your teacher
may impart to you information, he
may take you through the course of
a finished education embracing the
languages, sciences, classics and
mathematics complete, but their
application and utility is alone in
your hands. The knowledge re
ceived by you is education, the use
you put it to is business Without
the latter the former is useless, and
perhaps you would be better off
without it, for then, at least, you
would be content to labor with
your hands if necessary. The two
combined make the great men of
the country and of course the more
excellent the elements of the com
bination the greater the man. That
youth on foot upon the highway,
carrying on his 51back a peddler's s
pack, is but an immigrant Hebrew.
He scarcely speaks the English
language intelligibly. The young
gent with polished boots and Havana
cigar, who stands upon the streets
and jeers as the foreigner passes,
has conquered the entire curriculum
of college. He is an A. M Six
months have passed andiour Hebrew
boy rides in vehicle and vends
peddlers wares. Six months more
and he is ensconced in a small
business house and buys all the
hides, feathers, old iron and ginseng
he can lay his hands upon. A year
or so more and we find him useful
naturalized citizen, doing a prosper
Gus business on the public square,
and our young A. NJ, perhaps of
ante-war aristocracy, begs at his
door for employment at $40 per
month. Here is business and educa-
tiOn, each without the other. Which
of the two would you prefer? Let
your answer be, neither but both. I
A gentleman not long since liv
ing not far from here, largely en-
gagged in manufacturing, said to me
that after repeated and earnest eff
forts he was absolutely unable to
obtain native born southern young
man who was willing and able to
take and fill an important post in
his enterprise, where thousands of
dollars were invested and large sal
aries paid to the. principal en-
ployees. Not that they lacked ed
ucation, but they lacked the bust
ness qualifications or the willing
ness to acquire them. He found
young men who promised and some
whO'entered upon the. discharge OF
the duties, and did well for week or
a month or so, but when the ordeal
came, requiring long, arduous and
unremitting watch, or close and ac
curate transactions, the crucible
period too severe, they fell by the
way side, and he was forced to senC
to the east or to England for a man
and the first chosen filled the place
without finching. On a visit tC
East Tennessee last summer it wa
my lot to visit several large manu-
factories where eastern and evel
English capitalists hadinvested mil
lions of dollars, and as i now remem
Der, not a single..native southern-boT1
young man held a high position il
either of them. You ask them why
and they will reply "We eanno
find a young man here who vii
stick to business" u Now, as rea
son for this, some.will sayit is sec
tional prejudice, and curse the yar
, KEGS, but let me say to you, tn
fault. is at our own door. A Sho7
, me a young man of the south VIII
f has developed fine business qualif
cations who has ever failed to OF
{ tain employment anywhere, and es
e pecially of northern or eastern pa
e rons. How many are there in Ne
York to-day2 aoIC
Il a short time sinceda number {
a us were engaged in an immigratio
!, movement,tO induce industriousin
= migrants to come among US, to bu
: and till the countless acres of i'd
: soil in Giles county, and an INTEL
!, gentexeellent farmer accosted me o
e the street and challenged the move
J, ment, t,upon the gEoundsthat if thos
: fellows came among us they woul
e crowd our own people out. What
z, commentary on our OWL. .native-borl
e patriotic southern people! III
/ idea is fallacy. We need thes
|. thrifty, industrious ID Immigrant
/ among US, and our arms should |
:, wide open to receive them. Wher,
It ever they have settled among l
e they have exhibited examples ,
n industry and thrift, and an cage
e support of educational institution
n well-worthy Of our emulation, and
Ir challenge any man to look aroun
II him and find an instance eontri
is dictory of this statement II
i = .