Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-14
1yGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
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TrnNTIN UED F1SOM lLASI ISSUE
Al, of this might have been had tho
,anlc retained and held inalienable
l ,oir ownership in the land that from
. ." to time has been held by Columbia
W., devoted it's proceeds to higher edu-
' 'a Had the same policy been an
'r to all the land insanely and Grim
!nally given away by the peoples ren.
..'escntatives, Columbia university might
nave realized vastly more than has thus
~, IN, been suggested. Free instruction
nnder existing conditions might not
hing to such an institution any larger
nnmbcr of students than now are found
IN IFS various schools and in the two free
.ity colleges; but how would it have been
had the monopoly of natural resources
bv the few never been allowed to i'm
noverish the many? To the half-edu-
Gated and wholly ignorant society savior
This query will suggest nothing further
,ban a sheer, but to those who UNDER
stand the demands that labor makes for
the exemption of children from work
and the assurance of more leisure to the
mass of men. it will call forth vision
of the possible that will fill their minds
with pleasure. There is nothing more
remarkable in the present labor move.
nent than its steadfast recognition of
the value and necessity of education.
Even as it has gone along it has cducat-
ed those concerned in it in political
economy and political organization in a
way that now and then astonishes the
ignorant and sclf-sufficient society saw
iors, and yet the work has merely begun.
Under the new dispensation of applied
democracy, when the people enjoy their
own and abiect poverty shall cease,
there can be no surplus of educated men.
and higher education will be sought,
not for money-making purposes, but for
the expansion of mans capacity for en-
ioyment. The necessary work of man.
kind can be done with ever-decreasing
effort as invention projects ma
chincry under conditions that
benefit all. Should the ocular
story OF newspaper writer that man
down South isimporting apes and train
ing them to pick cotton ever come true,
there would be no cause for anger and
regret among any member of the human
family. All would recognize in this
utilization of the beast merely
anew force added to the many already
working for the public good. and thous-
mds would see in the consequent further
release of all from physical toll so much
more opportunity for study. Nor would
nero be any lack of remunerative en-
ployment for educated men under such
system. The wants of man are multitude
nous as the seas, and they increase by
ratification. In a land where no man
was abjectly poor, whore all had much
leisure and an even increasing number
had cultivated tastes to be gratified, there
could not be too many highly educat-
ed people, even if education were re-
garded simply as means toward gain
ing better livelihood, Columbia col
lcge, as the chief institution of learning
IL the metropolis of such q nation,
would be university such as mankind
has never seen. Its halls would be
thronged by eager tens of thousands of
students. while it's honors would be the
highest distinction that could be won by
the men and women of a regenerated re-
public that had at last succeeded in
forming perfect union of the people
under conditions that established JUS
ticc insured domestic tranquility, pro-
vided for the general welfare and
secured the blessings of liberty to a
people needing no defense against a
foreign foe and having no enemies in its
own household against whom provision
need be made.