Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-31

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| csIeu tne NOrtn, Is the education O1
the masses. The worst foe to ou,
Democratic forms of government il
Ignorance. In meeting and disarm.
ing it you have no easy task. 1t il
a startling fact, indeed, which was
revealed by the census of 1880 that
in some of your States half the
population could not read or write
The census of 1890 will make bet.
ter showing l am sure. Awakened
interest in educational matters, ilo-
ticeably in many States, is certainly
good augury. We have not for
gotten in the North that upon you
was placed, when the war ended,
the responsibility of instructing four
million freedmen in the duties of
citizenship; but we do some-
times overlook the fact that in your
land the system of common schools,
which we regard as one of our most
substantial institutions, is even now
only in its infancy. We are not un-
mindful of the prejudice which you
must combat to establish them
sparsity of population and the ex-
pense of providing separate schools
for whites and blacks.
But we are proud that in spite of
such obstacles, school houses are
dotting your fields and ornamenting
your towns, and we trust that with
the greater aggregation of wealth
may come the wider diffusion of
learning. Your city, foremost in all
that pertains to the South's welfare,
has made most commcndable strides
in this direction, and no small part
of her glory is reflected from these
beautiful halls of study where Geor-
gia's youth arc educated.
In the field Of industrial enterprise
you have great opportunities your
resources arc inexhaustiblc, see that
they arc not monopolizcd. You have
century of industrial progress in
the North to study and profit by ;
avoid our mistakes. Discourage
such legislation as tends to enrich the
classes at the expense Of the masses.
Diversity your industries so that
your invested capital may be moro
permanently remunerative and pro-
duction may not be ovcrdone by the
pursuit of narrow lines of enterprise.
1t is within your power to do much
towards securing suitable relations
between employees and employed.
Thus far you have been particularly
fortunate in avoiding disartrous Ia
Dor agitations. Your workingmcn
have been reasonably content, but it
has been largely due to the quality
of your labor and the nature of your
industries. When there shall be col
lccted in your manufacturing cities
large bodies of workingmen; when
rivalry for employment and good
wages shall have become kccncr,
you will have to meet serious ques.
tions, and if you would take warn
ing from the North's experience,
you will prepare to meet them now.
Your employers must realize what
yours have been slow to realize, that
one mans rights are the rights of
another and that that policy is the
best in business enterprise, as else
where, which is founded upon that
fundamental principle Of human con-
duct-to do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.
Let the benefits of your prosperity
be cnjoycd-not by the few who
would use them for their own selfish
ends, but encourage that broad, hu-
man charity which looks to the great
est good of the greatest number,
remembering that that state of So
ciety is the highest in which intclli-
gcncc and wealth are most equally
divided.
You have within your borders
vast numbers of an unfortunate and
long-oppressed Tace. Left suddenly
by the result of war to their own
resources, uncducatcd, supcrstitious
and helpless, but patient. docile and
ambitious, it is your interest, as it is
your duty, to lift them out of the
state in which fate has placed them
and help them to assume the rcspon-
siblities of citizenship. You have
an enormous labor class-black and
whitc-thc mass of them not yet
sufficiently stirred by the spirit of
progress to be conscious of their own
interests and their own power; they
will not always remain so. You can
do a great deal to avert the clashing
of interests by wise legislation, by
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