Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-12-12
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE LANDS.
CONTINUED FROM LAST ISSUE

All of this might have been had tho
people retained and held inalienablo
their ownership in the land that from
time to time has been held by Columbia
and devoted its proceeds to higher edu-
cation. Had the SINE policy been APP
piled to all the land insanely and GRIM
inally given away by the peoples rep
resentatives, Columbia university might
have realized vastly more than has thus
far been suggested. Free instruction
under existing conditions might not
bring to such an institution any larger
number of students than now are found
in its various schools and in the two free
city colleges; but how would it have been
had the monopoly of natural resources
by the few never been allowed to i'm
poverish the many? To the half-edu-
Gated and wholly ignorant society savior
this query will suggest nothing further
than sneer, 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
mont than its stead fast recognition of
the value and necessity of education.
Even as 1T has gone along 1t has educat-
ed those concerned in it in political
economy and political organization in a
way that now and then astonishes the
ignorant and self-sufiicient society saw
Tors, and yet the work has merely begun.
Under the new dispensation OF applied
democracy, when the people enjoy their
own and abject 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-
joyment. The necessary work of man
kind can DO done with ever-decreasing
effort as invention projects ma
chinery under conditions that
benefit all Should the ocular
story of newspaper writer that man
down South is importing 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
new force added to the many already
working for the public good, and thous-
ands would see in the consequent further
release of all from physical toll so much
more opportunity for study Nor would
there be any lack of remunerative en-
ployment for educated men under such q
system. Tho wants OF man are multitude
nous as the seas, and they increase by
qualification. In 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
lege, as the chief institution of learning
in the metropolis of such nation,
would be university such as mankind
has never seen. Its halls would be
thronged by eager tens of thousands of
students, while its honors would be the
highest distinction that could be won bv
the men and women of regenerated re-
public that had at last succeeded in
forming perfect union of the people
under conditions that established JUS
tice, insured domestic tranquility, pro-
vided for tho 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
neod be made