Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-13

with ITS schools and churches and col.
iege, which make it both attractive and
famous all through the state and ma
ton ; with its banks and its insurance
and real estate ofices-with al these
evidences of growth and culture and
Christian citizenship which surround
us, look Whatsoever way We will with.
in Its limits, and will any ssne man sell
me that education and intelligence UNI
fits me for peaceful, productive, remun-
erative laborf Win they2 Blot out
all this, If such a thing were possible,
by fire or cyclone or tornado snd putin
place of all this thirty wild, lazy, iRno-
rant, u~nproductive savages. The mere
statement of the proposition 10 sufi.
cient without further argument or
illustration. Thirty thousand peopie
could hv in this city of Mexico with
their intelligence and their Christian
citizenship, with all their prosent and
growing wants, with ten thousand fold
more comfort and more power than
thirty wild, ignorant savages could
live here, wanting nothing.
The interval between this condition
OF the savage wanting nothing and
that of our new advanced civilization
as illustrated here to-day ia but the
measure of the distance between ieno-
rance and its helplessness and imbecil-
ity, and intelligence and lite power to
uplift and inspire.
Do you tell me that the state or the
nation or any portion of our land In
better OFF and happier ignorant than
intelligent? Why, my friends, il is
u ignorance here and everywhere that
cripples and hinders and bllghts and
damns us to imbecility and fear and
poverty, and anarchy, too.
The dangerous classes to-day in this
country are the ignorant classes. ma
tive and foreign. The commerce and
prosperity and peace of half this nation
are jeopardized to-day by men. who, In.
norant of n laws and the genius Of
institution, ignorant of that inter-
dependence existing between labor and
capital, ignorant of the liberty we be-
stow and the help we render, have do.
serted law and order and peaceful.
intelligent labor and given themselves
over to unrestrained impulses Of re-
venge and plunder-of arson, murder
and assassination.
Bombs and dynamite Why, the
fact is We are being taught In the moat
dangerous and expensive school and BY
most startling and costly methods that
I'VE must educate or we must perish ,,r
that money expended for education 10
profitable investment; that the "duty
OF press towards education" is 10
wheel into the al and leadtsa people
and help to increase the attendants
and multiply these schools and colleeos
these reservoirs Of law ard morals
and science and civilization-hnd make
ubiqtitou2 and immortal the results of
the thiiinSg minds of all ages. and no
hll the world with very atmosphere ~
living, working, new-creating thoughts
of universal brotherhood and good will.
Wealth begins here in and with intel
ligence, (which sees and creates and
produces and reproduces." Wealth boz
gins in tools to work with, in power to
read books and newspapers, giving 10
all men on all sides by this intelligent
INSTRUMENTATION the greatest posi-
BILE extension of every power within Us,
as if it added feet and hands and eyes
and blood, and length to the day, with
sweet rest at night.
Wealth, you see, begins with intelli-
gence and not with ignorance, enabling
those who ue it most wisely and wide
ly to become million minded, and no
million-handed, men and women
Intelligence and civilization are COLI
tagious. identity OF language, too, lie .
mighty auxiliary in producing unity
aud equality among the people, and
what fundamentally so potent ss the
press to fix aad establish this identityf
I'VE have fifty millions of people and
over how We are. to..hsve three hum
dred miiiIons ~ rsasae hsrs.S~Are we
to be one peoplee Our plans d s~&.s.
items. TO insure not only i6hniity III
language but identity Of putpoes en6
mutasi heir. must b laid bsospa snoaoh
to compass all this. /
We may rest assured that when the
artisan and the laborer rises into .
higher life by intelligence and industry.
all society rises with him, insuring
peace, safety and prosperity 10 all.
There Is no reaso why we should
dread an overpressure of population
here. I have shown you that Mexico
could take care of thirty thousand peo-
pie, who were intelligent and iaw-abid-
ing and productive, better than thirty
ignorant. imbecile savsges could live
here, and l showed You why this could
be done.
We, in our ignorance Of tho product
i've force and power Of intelligence, cal
{ culate all the time only on brute force,
8 on the mere elementary wants and pss'
: sessions OF our nature, and have and
manifest a most unscientihc distrust o.
d the more refined products and highel
tastes and motives and wants and hsb
its ofthe social main. This u~nscientiti,
distrust comes from u Ignorance
> These more refined and complex con,ii
{ tions will surely enlarge not only thu
heroism of life but the capacity To- NEE
them. They are just as surely and
: completely under the law and orde'
and growth Of nature as u most prini
tive impulses rest in mere brute force
{ Society is progressive because we maxi
each one of it's component parts pro
= gressive, and with this material prop
eriy there comes higher modes of think
ing and living and producing. Thes'
extend from the few to the many, u
S all spiritual things grow IN the using
y Not so with material things. Wba
one eats np or wears ont perishcs II
the using. But thought grows and tx
pands by use. When You have a nes
d thought and you neighbor 10 made tn
wiser and better for your inlparting
TO him you are none the poorer for ibi
but all the richer, for nov your though
has two sonrces Of power and inspifa
ton instead Of one IN before, and b.
d communicating IL you you have iearne'
q to value IL more highly Yourself. Vcr
n marvellous 10 me is this varied intel
lectuai power, at work arouid us cssn
e stantly ~eIeyatIng MS all.