The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-05

legislatures and of administrative bod;es
u u Is rrodigality for material things
They are prodigal for sewers which ihgs, arn
vesy good things indeed. They are
pl9uigal Tor political Instrumentation, for
palitiGian'. 4 am not stingy am will.
t1g mat they should have something.
Put their prodigality is for everything
mat is material. Their stinginess is for T
that which comes right home to the yerv
ihs.nct and interior heart Of true wisdom
ana benevolence. Economical for
schools, prodigal for politicians. stinpv
ior schools, but able TO build great city
edihces, that men may have iobs ard
make money. Aqueducts, street sween.
lnge, new street openings, new pavemer ia
all these material improvements are yerv
good. | believe in them. / rejoice in
them; but tell you that the road 70
wisdom is more precious road than ths
. .oad between here and the metropolis of
the earth, if there were one.
Take care of the schools and have
m3fe'ot them, and if you are going to
take care Of the schools. take care of the
school teachers. II you are going to
take care of the school teachers, under.
stand one thing. You never will be able
TO have the best schools for tho children
OF the poor, until you make it the inter.
est OF men and women to devote their
lives to that business, just rs professional
men devote their lives to their occupa.
tions. Give the Mayor less. Give tbe
Aldermen less, if you give anything.
!if they have nothing, hey will get it.)
Neduce salaries everywhere, but increase
them in schools. Now, not one in twen.
ty teaches school, except as o stepping.
stone to omething better by aud by. A
young man wants to raise money to 60
to college with. When he gets through
there ne wants to raise monsy to go
through his profession, and when he has
got money he abandons the school. We
90 not doso i'll medicine, we do not do 80
in lew, We do not do 80 in the ministry.
we do so in our common schools, and
yet the teachers Of our common schools
are of more value TO the children of the
whole community than lawyers, doctors
aud ministers rolled up in q bundle all
together. We have been working at the
top of society. We have been forming
our estimates Of value by meretricious
standards. The child is more 10 the
mother than all creation. The weak and
the poor are more to God than all crea-
ton beside. It ought to be so, to q
Christian community, to the church, and
to civilization which boasts so much of
its Christianity.
A woman goes into the common school
saying, II dedicate myself to the chill.
dren of the community 2" No, no, it is
a good place to wait in until God sends
some one to take her out Of it, and then
she goes Men are making it a thing
aside, but We must make the schools 80
honorable that no other schools can live
along side the public schools; because
they are schools for the children of the
poor, for the helpless and the lowest and
the poorest, and even for the outcast, you
must make them glow with beauty and
honor. Do not crowd them. DO not
poison the children and sufocate them
with unventilated air. Do not make the
schools like barns transmogrifed with
9 ats. Make them palaces of beauty.
Build at the bottom. Build with beauty,
build with power. Let the cradle domi.
nate over the State House, and over the
City Hall. The power of the State lies
in the bottom of It. Take care of that
and you take care Of the whole.