Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-07-03

AT this season of the year the sub
ieet of education should receive
special attention, and every one m
terested lin school management should
be doing their best to furnish better
facilities, during the coming winter,
for our scholars to acquire hlgher
education.
The wages of uneducated labor,
mere physical force, constitute the
smallest part of the value ofany COM
modify. for labor can never earn
more than a bare subsistence; lett TO
itself it cannot produce more than
ENOUGH to sustain a starving LIE.
The farmer even with the ownership
Of his land, if he applies no skill or
science to his farm, though he ana
his family toll necessarily, can barely
obtain the necessaries, hardly any OF
the comforts of life.
Low as wagesa are the tendency is 70
still further decline. The time was
when ali work was done by hand,
now machinery supercedes in great
mart hand labor. and every day the
substitution of steam for human
STRENGTH is going on, so that the sup
NV az labor tends constantly to eX'
Good the demand. He who can pu'
a small amount of brain power lnt'
his work receives a somewhat hignel
compensation, but it is only he VIII!
understands every part of his busl
ness who can knowingly direct tn
Iobors of others, who can unit
science and skill with his industr,
that will really secure reward I'M
science and skill can only be galne'
bv education; not the education o
the hand alone. but of the brain. A
education that will enable the tarme
. or artisan to command his materials
, instruments and forces; to avail HIN
self of improved processes, to calc'
late results and to economlse II
sources. If he is to increase I'll
q standing of himself and family,
q must be an education of general Gu
ture. so that he may treat on equ
i terms with men of intelligence q
o education. and maintain a posltlc
e worthy of respect and conhdenc
# The man who possesses this kind
K an education can earn something Ov
is the bare cost of subsistence; he c:
.e earn more than competency; and
h investing his savings, he can secu
the constantly increasing income
those savings. In this way educ
,e tion will help settle the conflict
d tween labor and capital, the skill
t. and educated laborer will belong
,e both classes. and the same measul
!" which protect the millionaire, prot'
err his small savings.
10 Give us highly educated labor, a
rs industrial pursuits will be rals
nj above the lower walks of CONNER
he fine son of the farmer and mechal
it. will be proud to follow in the sa
~ pursuit as his father. This will
NO iieve the over-crowded ranks OF IN
to camille life, men will leave the me
he uring of tape, and the handing Out
needles and pins, to women, VIII
business it properly is; they
o cease TO crowd our railroad c'
f. steamboats, and hotels, needlessly
-, creasing the cost of goods in IL
~ MASSAGE from the producer to the
' var sumner; they will bring their mus
Jg and intellects to bear on pracU
- questions that will tend to incre
y fine wealth and comfort Of the nat
~ II is no uncommon thing, at
ats time. for the graduates OF our
ato colleges to pass at once to the
rso chine shop or factory and take
rd lowest place rs an apprentice;
;no agricultural colleges and mdust
90 Institutes are doing a good worl
,.os raising both agriculture and la
craft to the rank Of liberal pre-
sions. But useful as is their W
18th it is but a drop in the bucket tn
oTt formation must come from our
no'. lie schools, they must provide SC
.tI- thing more than a plain English
~, ~ ucation. Every county should
;nn one or more High Schools, where
- bOvs can receive, free rs air, an
~ ueation that will raise them al
ma the rank of the laborer, that VIII
al waite their calling by elevating u
49,. and secure to our country the
~ Gifts that flow from liberal educai