Smyrna times., 1884-04-30
WHOLE NO. 1903.

D0i vi apprentices tney snail take
and the branches they shall learn, CEN
trallzing power more to be dreaded
In the future of this country than could
possibly come from the workings of
the Blair educational plan between
the States. The time has come when
the only men we can look to, our pub
lie instructors, who if given this chance
of mental and manual cO-education.
will throttle with the superior intellect
of our native youth this demon of
trades unions and communism.
The mighty resources of this land
should be in greater degree evolved
to their purposes by hands to the
manor bOrn," and not under the
shadow of protection to American in
dustrles by foreign mechanics. A part
VIII then be played in the future of
TINS country by our patient and unap-
preclated instructors that will accrue
to the Nations good. Armed with
practical and scientific knowledge in
all that pertains to the trades our
youth can go to those trades and de-
mand their rights by knowledge pre-
viously acquired and not to
Bend the supple hinges of the knee
That thrift may follow fawning'
from ship loads of wOrkmen from the
shops OF Germany, France or England,
lor information in the trades it is not
to their interest to give, and which If
theX can prevent they will not give.
Ihls subject is not grappled with by
our politicians because they know full
well the vote thereon depending. 1t
Is one requiring the line to be drawn
sharp and clear as to what really con-
stltutes American industries; if we say
/ to the Asiatic hordes of the. East, the
/ ChlneSe must go" we should look to
VINO they are that say it, those here bv
right or suffrance. If by right then
the material here and its scientific
manipulation belongs to them through
knowledge gained here. If by suffer
ance then the cry should not be
changed to that of the Americans
shall go" in reality. This unnatural
ostracism, solely on account of skill,
would, however, be attended with
more serious results did all depend en-
tlrely upon mental and manual educa-
ton in their full development. 1t hap
pens that excellence of the highest
order is seldom if ever attained bv
Ignoring originality for set rules
rules i'll their conformity to known
laws must be followed as far as they
go; yet above them, far above them, is
what some call tact; others again
genius, but is best known when it Der-
forms every where wonders in the
adaptation of means to the end y
All education, all rules, all things
worthy of the name of excellence paw
homage 10 the shrine of this faculty
that is taught not within the walls of
any building, and comes often in the
gloom and discOuragment of weary
trials. 1t came to Charles Goodyear in
his efforts to VulcaniZe rubber after
years of toll, when in his desperation he
tossed his childrens school books in his
furnace for fuel and went begging par
. don of his starving wife 1t in the
f dimly lighted shop of the mathematical
, instrument maker, John Watt, at work
? on the steam engine, at his elbow the
| imprisoned steam chatting under re-
= straint, before him the unfinished en-
, gine that as yet could not control its
!. tremendous power; when from nc
f book, no rules, no tuition, came to
e that searching brain the grandest in
: Vention of any age the "slide valve Of
1 the steam engine" mechanism thai
G cannot be improved upon, checking of
4 steam at sixty miles the hour, as wei
/. as at one, and presents one of the finest
? illustrations extant of the adaptabilitS
v of means to the end. This faculty
d this adaptation grades US as we really
# are; otherwise we should all reach the
d same level, then stop, and so woulC
n the world. As it is some stop at one
: level, others again higher, and YET
higher, until there bursts upon the
= world genius whose adaptabilitN
q initiates the Condor of the Andes
!. which hides its whitened wings deep il
e the abyss and then rises and with on,
d majestic sweep, clears the untroddel
" crest of Chimborazo and gazes with un
e dimmed eye upon the MONDAY sun.
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