Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1888-01-12
SOUND SENSE.
Parent" Offers Some Sensible
Views on the Advantages OF
Male College.

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Views on the Advantages OF
q Male College. !
TO the Editor OF the Ledger.
Mexico, NO., Jan. 5.-Mexico
has shown by her past that when
she undertakes to do anything, she
does it.
Within the past year she has
spent thousands of dollars in MAX
ing useless hole in the ground,
because she could find nothing
tangible or otherwise upon which
to expend her energy, enterprise
and money. She is now subscrib-
ing tens of thousands of dollars in
hopes of securing another railroad,
which will be at least of doubtful
benefit to her spiritual and intel
lectual condition. Isee by the pa
pers that Mexico is now offered an
opportunity to invest her money
and expend her energy and en-
thusiasm over something that will
surely yield great benefits. / re-
fer to the offer now. made by the
synods of the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church to establish, at some
point in the State, a college for the
education of young men. 1t will
be worth more to Mexico than a
acknowledgement, even if it went
clear through to China; more than
a half dozen gas wells or two new
railroads.
The advantages of having such a
school would benot only material,
but also intellectual and moral. 1t
will make Mexico an educational
center which will attract the most
desirable population, who will
come to educate their sons and
and daughters. It will bring a
number of students, all of whom
viii board in the community,
thereby opening means to many
persons for making a livelihood.
The money will be spent with the
merchants and others in the town,
adding business and wealth.
Money will be saved to those
who have boys to educate, who
would otherwise have to send them
from home at large expense, besides
the worry and anxiety of having the
boys away from home. And, gen.
orally, there would be added to the
town life and enterprise, which
would bring to it industries from
other parts of the country.
1t will give to our people de-
sire for intellectual improvement,
and give every one in the commun-
ity, who has the desire and capaci-
ty for an education, an opportunity
to obtain it at small expense.
1t would stimulate the young
men of the town, whether they at
tended college or not, to study and
read, which would greatly improve
the general society and make the
town more desirable as a home. 1t
would also bring to the town more
educated men and women, and
would elevate the standard of lee
lures and other entertainments
As church school, the majority
of the young men who would come
from a distance to attend it would
probably be of good moral standing
at home, and their association with
our young men would naturally be
beneficial. There would necessar-
| lily, be a higher standard of amuse-
ments cultivated and enjoyed.
The churches will be better at
tended, and preachers will be en-
couraged to greater zeal and effort !;
and better tone of morality and
religion will be infused.
1t will also benefit Hardin Col
ilege, ,inasmuch as most parents who
have both boys and girls to educate
prefer sending them to the same
town for their education.
The matter is one of special in
terest and Importance to parents,
mot only of boys who can get the ad-
yantages of the school, but of girls
who will be thrown into the society
of the young men ofthe town.
Whatever improves the young
men improves the young ladies;
and uice versa.
! The advantage Hardin College
has already been to our town is
lincalculable. No one would be
willing to do without it now for a
lhundred-fold It's cost.
| | think the importance ofthis en-
Iterprise can not be over-estimated
led. and the city and community
fshould determine to secure the
college. Doubtless the PROPOSE
tions made were sincere, and by
proper energy money enough could
| be raised to obtain its location at
| Mexico.
| There is not citizen in the town
Ior community who would not be
directly or indirectly benefited by
lit, and there is not one who could
mot contribute something toward
getting it. There are many who
could afford, as an investment, to
give considerable amounts; and
There is no cause to which the
charitable could more consistently
respond.
! The community is pleased to see
l+hot both tbe I,rnsrR and Ty,fslJi1en.