The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15

usefulness as d working member OF
civilized society, on earth. and la the
foundation for happy eternity here
after. And if this is so. education
demands instruction for the heart, in
struction for the brain, and instruc-
tion for the body that nourishes all.
There must be manual training, men
tai training and moral training, and
the perfect man must have the benefit
of all. If there is ever any golden
age for the race, therefore, 1t must be
before us, since it certainly is not be-
hind us.
In two of these lines Of the true
education we in Carolina are we'll
equipped. No State gives her chill
dren better, purer, higher education
in the classics, in the sciences, and In
that grandest of all studies, pure
mathematics, than to-day is given in
our schools, our colleges, and our
grand old University, which stands
as eminent in her great work for
higher education, as stand her illus
trious alumni among the statesmen of
America.
Nor shall the heart training of our
children suffer so long as the truth in
its purity shall continue to be taught
us as the rich result of that religious
liberty that has been guaranteed to us
from our fathers; so long as we retain
our homes encircled by loyalty, love,
and obedience; so long as in these
homes a mothers sweet lessons are
taught, and her law of love is supreme.
Amid all the changes that have come
upon us, thank God, we have not lost
our old homes nor our loyal reverence
for the mother who sanctiies them.
But for many reasons the question
of manual training has been so neg
lected in the South that we are now
sadly feeling the results. We know,
but we cannot do. We feel the need
of that instruction that will fit us to
do something in the busy battle of
life. We are poor, we need for our
children that training which, added
to our old Southern training, not sup
planting it, will develop our resources,
unlock the millions that lie hidden in
our hills, and scatter plenty along our
waste places. We do not need, we
do not want, the accumulated wealth
of few while millions are crying for
bread The darkest cloud that throws
its portentous shadow across the future
of our great country is the immense
wealth of the few and fearful poverty
of the many. A slavery more dread
full than any that this nation has ever
seen threatens to-day, in the fact that
the money king is on the throne, and
he would have us bend the knee to
him or starve.
Thank God, there is too much life
in the old land for that yet awhile.
And when technical training shall re-
ceive its proper attention, as it soon
shall do, the oppression of the many
by the few shall cease. We do not
need a few rich and many poor. We
do not need millionaires. But we do
need millions to inherit the virtue,
the valor, the honor of our old South.
ern stock. We need them equipped
with the good education that South
ern schools have always offered, sup
plemented with technical training, an
education that will teach them how to
earn for themselves a good, substan-
tial, true, happy, independent and
contented life That condition that
permits few, by the toiling of the
many, to become immensely rich, is a
most unfortunate one True lasting
contentment and peace
come only by constant, honest devo-
ton to daty which yields.4its natural
and healthy results in d long and
life. ~s.1
We need to get our people back |
TO the idea that they must earn a iv- |
ing, not secured by doubtful methods
and modern tricks of the trade. Happy
will be our land when our young men
earn that the highest type Of man
hood is shown in him who, by honest
industry, supplies the wants of him !
self and those dependent on him. It |
Is most lamentable fact that many,
very many, of our young men, after
leaving school absolutely have no way
Of making living by giving honest
value for it. The result is that we
nave large class of gentlemanly and
pleasant loafers and a very large
class OF young men waiting for some
thing to turn up, who think that thew
are educated, who are too proud to
work, and too poor to live without
work. Not all the blood of all the
towards can make useful or happy
citizens out of people too proud or
azy to learn an honest living. The
:ew who succeed in getting an Office
'r winning a place in the public SER
vice that pays make the exception.
The many who must honestly earn a
livelihood by the sweat of the brow
make the rule. Let us then educate