The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-01-12
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, JANUARY ~, 1888.

the hour in all departments of prooros.
and yet the farmers of the land or1
slow to discover its mighty and rest,
less power. "No man liveth to bina
self" is a law that is as unyieldino in
its demands and operations on flo
farmer as the one which declares +bat
he "shall eat bread in the sweat Of bis
face"
Do the farmers of neighborboods
Of townships, Of counties, of States
meet together, counsel together, act
together for their common advanco
ment and protection and for thoir
mutual good p? Do they complain Of
imperfect and Improbable methods
and systems? Do they complain Of
unjust laws, and discriminating lepisla.
ton 2. Where is the remedy? Belono.
ing to 81 per cent. Of the entire non.
ulation of the United States engaged
in the various occupations and CON.
stituting II per cent. of that Of cotton
States-where is the remedy?
FIFrHLY-A aoant Of practical train.
ing and agricultural education for The
masses.
Our system Of education, not only
in the South, but throughout the
country, has hitherto tended to the
development of only one department
of human effort, viz: Conquest on the
forum or renown in professional life
In our system Of education no con.
quests in the great field of agriculture
we're lanned-no avenues for distinc-
ton and 10Y were opened up to
the aspiring young mind in the great
field of industry.
The great and imperative need of
our people and Of our time, is the
practical education of the masses.
Wherever attainable, give the youth
of the South brightly FURNISHED men.
tai machinery, but we owe it to our
selves, to our posterity and to the
world to see to it that they are p1o-
vided with the weapons of practical
knowledge with which to fight life's
battles. Let us teach them how to
work and teach them to be proud of
it. Let US teach them how to make
dollar and how to live on 90 cents of
it. Establish institutions for the
practical, industrial education Of the
masses Of our people. It will be a
glorious day for the South, when our
young men shall not be ashamed to
hang their diplomas in their work
shops, their factories, their labora-
tories, their school rooms, their count
ing rooms and their farm houses. It
will be a glorious day for the South
when her young ladies, educated in
all the higher and refined arts of life,
shall boast and without blushing of
equal proficiency in the management
of the household and the fower-gar-
den. Teach them the important prin-
ciples involved in the great science Of
agriculture, the nobility of honorable
industry and thus lift our boys to a
higher plane of thought, of aspiration
and of manhood. The most pitiable
Of all the examples of worthless man
hood, is that young man who is too
proud to be poor and who is too lazy
to work. All, the towering spirits
that have been stripped of their bright
plumage by this unmanly and coward
ly dread of honorable labor! Let US
have institutions for the special prac-
tical training of the brain and the
hand, and thus bring forth an armyot
young men, inspired with a just ap-
probation of the dignity and nobility
Of honorable labor, and whose skill
and ability shall command success.
W. need and must have skilled artl-
sans, skilled mechanics, skilled sclen,
fists, skilled agriculturists, skilled
brain and skilled labor in all depart
ments of industry, if we would de-:
velop and utilize all the varied ana
wonderful capabilities of this highly
favored section. Many of Il chill
dren will live to be numbered among
one hundred and fifty millions OF
American people. That young man.
who shall be able to write before his
maturity, the date, January l, A. d.
1000, will look out upon an Ella
fraught with the grandest and most
stupendous achievement and GLORIOUS
triumph of intellect and genius, thai
has marked any period in all the
worlds history. Shall we not equip
and train him for the responsibilities
which he must inevitably encounter :
On the island of ST. Domingo, STANDS
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