St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-28

any hindrance being placed in his way
and considering it very wrong, yet he
gave me to understand, when / put the
question to him direct, that he would
not dare to offer any bill that would
antagoniZe trades unions or Knights
OF Labor, but would be willing to sup
port bill preventing these unions or
their members from interfering with a
youth desiring to learn trade. if some
other member introduced it. This does
not look much like honest belief in our
DoaSted American independence.
Herein. lies one of the great dang
ers to the future well-being of our
republic in the existence of
THE TRUCKING POLITICIAN,
VINO is ready to be all things to all men
that he may win votes and retain polit-
zeal power and patronage, and whose
oath OF office is dead letter, ignored as
soon as taken. There is not a spark of
patriotism in the average political DEM
agogue. and the youth of the nation
need have little hope through him. HIS
best hope is through an enlightened
public sentiment, created by just such
persons and organizations as are repre-
Sented here to-day.
1t Is believed by almost every intelli-
gent person that all should be taught to
read and write, and to have sufficient
education to fit themselves for the re-
sponsibilities of American citizenship,
and in response to that feeling we
nave compulsory laws on educa-
ton In many Of our states, and
am glad the feeling in favor
OF such laws is growing stronger, and |
trust the time is not far distant when all
onr states will enact and enforce COM
puls0ry education laws, and that there
will be none in this broad land who will
not know at least how to read and
write. For the safety and preservation
of the nation it is an absolute necessity
that the great boon of the right of suf-
TRACE should have intelligence and edu-
cation to direct the citizens in it's dis
charge. 1t is also important that the
state or nation should look after the in
dustrial education of its people, when,
as have before shown, that its life and
prosperity so largely depend upon it.
The nation could not exist if all were
scholars and not toilers. Of what use,
In nine cases out of ten, would book
education be unless the youth of the
country were given an opportunity to
apply it in some industrial pursuit. An
education is very dangerous possess
sion to those who have no vocation in
life. Charles Sumner said: Education
without occupation is peril; education
with occupation is power" The youth
OF the nation must be taught in some
way how to apply himself in the vari-
GUS Industries of the country; and, if
he cannot be taught in sufficient num-
bers in the shops or at the building,
then there must be provided an addi-
ton to every prominent educational in
stitution of the land for the purpose of
eaching some handicraft.
The highest honors Of the nation
should be given to the noble philan-
thrOpist, Mr.. Auchmity, who has set
the example in this respect. And am
glad to know that there are other noble
men following the example he has set.
But these schools are not the equal of
the shops or building for the practical
education OF these young men. 1t is a
step in the right direction and If our
laws were properly enforced so that the
youth, after securing technical knowl-
edge in addition to what they have
been able to learn of the trade, would
be allowed to go to work in the shop or
on the building. the end of the next
generation would see vastly improved
class of mechanics.
THE RESTRICTIONS ON THE YOUTH
of the nation in the learning of indus
trial pursuits is ia very large measure
the cause OF so many of our youths be-
ing inmates of reformatories and penal
institutions. Go into our courts and
Jalls and you will find the large major
ity of offenders are under twenty-five
years of age, ldleness the world over
breeds crime, and when the youth of
of our nation are shat out of honest en-
ployment, large portion will turn
their hands to dishonesty. The hands
and the brain must be kept legitimately
employed.
l am ready to concede the right of
every man, and consider it his duty, to
better his condition, so long as he does
not Interfere with the rights of others,
but for any man or body Of men to set
our laws in defiance and endeavor to
trample on the rights of others, our
laws cannot be made too rigid, or pun
ishment too severe for them, if we
would preserve manhood and liberty.
l can recolleet the time when it was
one Of our boasts that every boy could
learn trade or craft without paying
for such privilege, but things have
changed. Young America to-day, if he
gets a chance, has to get that privilege
through the permission of organiza-
tiOns which are foreign and antagOn-
istic to our liberties.
l would have the members of this
convention consider very carefully the
industrial education of our youth, and
agitate this question until the youth of
the land has the same freedom in this
respect that he had thirty years ago,
before we were cursed with foreignisms.
If possible. let us have laws passed to
prevent any further interference with
our rights.
This republic was founded by men
who rebeIled against the tyranny of an
imperious and unjust foreign monarch.
Shall we now submit to the tyranny of
numbers controlled by few who are
unscrupulous and thriftless? The re-
public was saved and the Union pre-
served by abolition of the political her.
esy that man had right to hold his tei-
bowman in bondage, and rob him OF the
fruit of his toll. Shall we now permit
American youth, born to liberty, to be
subject to bondage more humiliating
than African slavery, because it is a
bondage of natural rights and worthy
ambition to the meanest kind of mas
ter possessed of trinity of vices:
SelfshneSs, unrighteousness, and cru
city?
Is it not now high time for a new Dec
laratiOn of Independence?
Give young America chancel