The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-05


cation, and requires FIVE years schooling
between the ages of seven and seventeen
and special attention is given to the NOR
al training Of her pupils. The illiteracJ
of her population is only 2f per cent
which is smaller ratio than any State
in our Union and yet Germany is alarm
ed at the spread of socialism.
We'll; it looks like there Is anothe,
problem to solve. How much education
shall We give to our children /? Pope is
not infallible even though he was 8
"Pope." q little ledrning is not a dan
gerous thing9 tits a good thing, safe
and harmless thing and every human
being ought to have it. To read and tc
write and to cipher adds to the usefulness
the independence and the happiness Of
mankind. We can all agree upon that.
A common school education does not put
the man or the State in any peril. II
does not produce any disinclination to
work for a living-to work in the common
avocations of life. But suppose re could
by some enchantment, give every man
and woman a college education, would
we dare to do it? Old Uncle Sam chops
my wood and cleans out my stable apd
gets his daily wages aud 6 content. If
be vas suddenly endowed with my learu.
ing would he chop my wood any more ?
If not what would he do for living;
who would do the cooking and washing,
and scour the floors and kill the chick.
ens2 Who would dig and plow and
curry the mules and haul the wood and
butcher the cattle and hogs and work in
the faetories9 Who would be brakemen
on the railroads or 6remen on the engines9
Who would be porters and draymen and
hack drivers in the cold, sleety days Of
sinters The college graduates won't do
it now-would they do it then? In fact,
does not a high degree Of culture unfit a
man for laborious or menial pursuits? =? Il
it does then what pursuit is left him when
the professions are overcrowded as they
are in Germany
Now, neither the State nor the people
are responsible for the unequal condition
of mankind. Some vessels ara born to
honor and some dishonor. Work has to
be done-hard work, dirty work, un.
healthy and perilous work, or else every.
thing would stop and the human family
would perish. We cannot help this.
Fortune and misfortune move along to.
gether.
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue
fall" Society is its own regulator.
have no just cause of complaint that I
can't move in the first circles. I am
happier in my own, and SO is everybody,
even down to Uncle Sam, the woodchop-
per. Our white people are getting
along pretty well and the professions are
not yet overcrowded to any alarming
extent. There is still room at the top.
But the negroes of the south are fast ap.
preaching the condition of the whites in
Germany. Their colleges are turning ouI
scores who can find nothing to do-noth.
ing that is congenial to their educated
feelings. When young man, white OF
black, has acquired high strung educa'
tion and can find nothing to apply it to
he begins to brood over the unequal con.
dition of things. He sees class around
him who are mentally his interiors, but
who have accumulated property and
are reveling in wealth. He sees another
class who have made fortunes by crooked
practices, by extortion, speculation, mo-
nopoIy and political intrigrues. His
thoughts tester and fret in idleness, which
is the parents of all vice, and before he
knows it he wants division and is at
heart a socialist. The negro does mol
have far to 20 to reach this point, for it is
his nature to want division. He begins
to divide early.
Glow are you getting along, Doug her.
ty?" said I to a clever old darkey who
was raised in the family.
"Foorly, sir, poorly. Itgets worse and
worse. MY children are giving me a
power of trouble since they came home
from college. They won't work nary
lick and they brings crowd o.
them lazy college whelps to my house
every day and they have pretty nigh eat
me out"
The working negroes give us no trouble
but every now. and then one OF these
college bred editors or school teachers tr,
to stir up war between the races, ant
they have an idea that they will be back
ed by their northern friends. But they
are mistaken. The north has too macl
money invested here now and is investing
more all the time. The north will no
take part in s. race war. The northern
mind is very much unsettled on thi
problem. On the last 4th of July dis
tinguished orator made speech in Far
mington, in Maine, and said that tn
nation had committed three monumental
blunders-orc WAS in opening our door
to all the vagabonds of the earth anoth
er was in not hanging JEFF Davis and Bo1
Lee and all the leaders and officers of th
rebellion, aud the greatest blunder of al
lay in giving the negro the ballot ant
setting him up as citizen. He denounc
ed the poor darkey as being worse thai
the Indian or the Chinaman.
Well, I wish they would settle dow
and let US know what they are going t
do about it. In the meantime let us b
patient. Let the south roll on in be
prosperity and let everybody be cain
and serene.
BILL ARP.