Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-14

first demand of the state was for compre
hension, ability and culture for the govern
ing classes. Hence, universities dotted |
Europe like great lights on mountain tops, |
while the common people were immersed |
in darkness. Asgoverning Glasses increas-
ed, the demands of higher education in |
creased, until now the way is open from
every home for every boy and girl to the |
best universities and colleges in the land.
practical advantages of higher education
in these times
The wisdom of this plan is proven by
the entire experience of our Christianity
IN extending our civilization among Pagan
nations. Beyond all that is done in the
elements,it always aims to establish schools
for the highest culture of its converts.
We have sent our money to establish col
leges among the Turks, Syrians,
the Egyptians, and now are
among the negroes Of the south, in spite
of the cry thas We are over educating. that
our benevolence should be limited to
training them to trades and the vocations
of humble life, We have built great uni
versities, and are teaching these despised
blacks now to read Latin and Greek, high
er mathematics and the sciences. From
these centers of intellectual power, men
and women have gone out to teach and
arouse their own people. The results
show that while iliitaracy at the south
among the whites increased % per cent
from 1870 to 1880, among the negroes it's
increase was but III per cent, and in
Tennessee, which has felt the influence of
the great Vanderbilt university, its in
crease has been but 80 per cent against
q per cent among the whites.
In the light of our history and expert
| ence, ask whether any lover of his eoun-
try can seriously question the wisdom of
| our fathers in making bountiful provision
for the higher education of cur youth SO
| far as their tastes, abilities and cireum
stances may allow. Latin.1 -
| INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
How far industrial educstion shall be
carried, is practical question to be de-
cided By circumstances; but the training,
of youth to the particular habits and skill
required by each of the multitude Of arts
and vocations of society is a departure
not warranted by the principles of the new
education. The world is its own best
workshop. I believe the disposition of the
business world is that if our public
schools will send to them
young men and women
with characters we'll established in integ-
rity and moral principle, with habits Of
prom ptness, careful and accurate atten-
ton, Ekillful and systematic in the use Of
thsir powers OF mind and body, they will
see to thsir apprenticeship, and will
promptly and successfully initiate those
TO their vocation. The only exception that
| is allowed to this rule il in the ease Of
those who are for various reasons removed
beyond the influence of society and its in
dustries, such es the Indians, reform
schools, and prisons. Hers the etats must
provide trades.
If the disposition to provide trades for
the poor is prompted by the spirit OF be-
-, nevoience l suggest that
THE Pr JBLEM THAT Is BATTLING
the most observing is not how TO help tie
maeses to more remunerative industries
but how to teach them and dispose them to
use their leisure time and the proceeds Of
their labor in ways that will make them
selves and their families more comiorta-
bic and happy. 1t is proven by the his
| tory of nations and individuals that with
| The ignorant, the increase OF wealth and
power is the increase OF sensual pleasures
and luxuries ending in excavation and de-
cay. And to-day we witness the appalling
| spectacle of the common and laboring
people wasting thsir substance in sensual
! indulgence, only to be increased by their
pp os perl.y. Ia this country the money
expended oy tho iaooriDg cc.,asses during
ten years past IN drink and tobacco would
have provided each family with comfort
able homo.
THE MOST SERIOUS DEFECT
of our work is, in my judgment, the in
ferior place given to ethical or moral eul-
ture. Without in the least introducing the
church or its dogmas into tho schools, YET
in perfect harmony with the dictates of Q
fine Christianity, the moral perceptions
judgments and tastes of children ought tt
be 80 trained that they will spprehend and
incorporate in thsir practice those
virtues which relate them K
, neighbor, parent and society
As we watch the course OF our river VI
may see in places the current grown slug
} gish or still, here and there water standing
in great and stegnant pools sending u
} exhalations that burden the air with dis
) ease, here again receiving streams corrup
l and filthy, and then il it's hesdloug tor
l.. rents destroying life and wealth, and w
ara tom pied to pronounce it both deadl
. and dangerous. But,
TAKING 4 BROADER VIEW
from some higher standpoint, We see the
it is noble stream, moving in q curren
. which nothing can stay, increasing It's ow1
!. volume by receiving and purifying ever
tributary stream, its banks teeming VII:
i fertility, its great bosom growing broade
and broader bearing the commerce of
7 continent until it becomes ono with I'll
great ocean. So in the current Of our sc
! cial life, there is much that
dangerous, ard the wrecks of life may
! seen everywhere, and our hearts gro
1 heavy with alarm, but in the broader view
n its current is firmly set; the purifying an
assimilating power Of our Christianit,
r our free schools, our enterprise is broader
$ ing and deepening the current making
( more and more benefcens until, as "
. fondIy hope, the shores shall disappss
4 only when We become one in the brothe
# hood CT man, in one nation and one leI
n guage.
" CELTIC GRIEVANCES.
10 Proceedings of the Irish State CoRFentiel
= at Milwaukee.
3 MILWAUKEE, Dec. 19.-At the morning se
J., sion Of the IRISH state convention the COMM