The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-24
CRANKS


head of the common school system
in the States and counties, and
the legislatures Of the States and
the Congress Of the United State
He is alway the busiest and wise;
and most philanthropic and disin
Iierested man out Of the grave. II
is a monomaniac on the subject, ali
fsnatical in all his thoughts aud j
| ali his acts. He believes and d.
nnunces every man & fool who 'disa
gsees with him in his fanaticism an
nonsense. AS rule he never pay
ally taxes or bears any of the bul
| dens Of the STATE, but wants every
body else taxed to carry out his pc
schemes. The crauks who assassi
mated Lincoln and Garfield were no
half so dangerous to society an,
to the institutions Of the country a
the educational crank. They strucl
at one man, the latter strikes at al
men, at society, at liberty, at thu
fundamental principles and founda
ton stones of a free and Independent
government.
No one of these educational cranks
has ever comprehended the first
principles of genuine education OF
the advantages derived from an edu,
CATION These fellows are all gifted
with giant irtellects and are brim
full of wisdom. No one can make 9
suggestion. they know it all, and
think everybody fool who cannot
see things as they see them. Not to
be willing to surrender at their sug-
gestion half your substances to Lro-
mote their chimerical plans of edu-
cation and nonsensical ideas, is so
heinOus an offence as to merit lnca, :
ceration in dungeon with felcar.
cerations. These fellows have but
one idea, they see with but one eve.
there is but one side to a question
and they are always on that side, and
fellow who thinks all questions have
,wo sides is fit subject for the lu.
na'lc asylum. if not The penitentiary.
All the ills of life flow from the fact
'hat they are not allowed to control
'he Universe, and other peoples mon.
~ and the educational interests and
Institutions of the country. They
Ire not satisfied to bend tdeir ene--
5tes to carry out Che will of heaven
md educate those who have the ca
'acity to receive it, but they would
1apoverish the country to educatetle
ocl, the monkey. yle baboon and the
angaroo-impossibilities. Divine au
for'ty never designed that all men
hould DC educated in books. nor
'id IL appoint and Eredetermine that
Ill nien should comprehend and un-
ersSand the mysteries of science
i'd one wonders OF nature.
But these cranks OF whom we
peak, would have us believe that
nth them to order and control
1her peoples money they
iouid soon advance the fam
Y OF men in TO new paths, and
ew fields o. thong ht and science
nd thereby usher in the grand dav
I jubilee. In uuth, if their vsga-
les and freaks are TO be believed
&c period is in the near future.
hen all men will stand on a level
nd on equality with the Author and
inisher of all things.
No" if the energetic business,
J
onest part of the world, could onlv
9 induced to surrender to and place
ie results of life of toll, hardships
ID honesty at the disposition of
'ese cranks, monomaniacs end
isgnided fanatics, what a grand
III glorious time we would haval
,hool houses, academies, COLLEGES
'urches and institutions of science !
echanics. and philanthropy would
on fill every valley and cover the ,,
IL tops from ocean to ocean. and .
,m lake to gulf. God and his
and powerful attributes S
'uid soon be numbered among the /
ings OF the past and forgotten :
d new god and new creation !
q a new order Of things substitu> /
l. S.
AN ANSWER WANTED. <
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