, 1891-09-23
To the Editor of "The st. Croia Aris."

of Governments the talented and able Gentle
men who discharge usually with so much dis
t~inction the difficult services assigned them,
honour to them. The responsibility lies with
those who manufacture Laws for the unlucky
subject and forget his best interests.
What | wish to say is: The benefits of such
institutions as concerted training and working
schools cannot be overestimated. It is not
alone the instruction given the young not
even the scope of industrial e~xertion substitu-
ted for idle hands and brains, no, not even
that, being capable of being made selfsupporting,
they lift a burden from the heavy laden
shoulders of the Community, but it is in the
increased vitality which well directed a%ssocia-
ton and contact with others, gives, that it's
effects will be marked. The sense and impetus
of enlarged capability, the fresh moral example
to others outside its sphere, for instance the
slow half brutal country labourer with not
one formed idea in his noddle, the broken
Town maltreated waif and orphan, for whom
no ray Of Improvement lights his horizon--the
decision Of character that comes of knowing
what we are about, the morale, the extended
sympathy and charity, which knowledge and
unity of aims developers in both high and low
a sentiment in which alas we are sadly, sadly
dofcient-for the high as well as the low
need we'll also attain to practical ends These
are the results which practical tuition brings,
and worthless indeed is the education that
foolishly ignores them.
Another point to be gained in this expert
ment, will be q better estimation of the value
Of money, and of the value due to other
peoples belongings. Who amongt us is not
a sufferer from the systematic and persistent
thieving that goes on on every hand? Who
has not been O victim FROM the evil disposition
that sets cane fields on fire and destroys proper
ty? from the untruthfulness, the falsehood,
trickery, and deceit at every turn? Can you
believe a word the labourer tells you? Can
you set him to do enc thing, the very simplest,
without Watching and driving ?-Life's span
is far too precious to be wasted in driving and
watchiug!-Notice the numbers Of strong, able
bodied, hale, young people comprising the
convict gangs; the very muscle and sinew of
the country-those who should be its defend
ers-flling up it's prisons-Is there not some
thing wrong in this? If the hale able bodied
individual knew at its proper, value how to earn
and preserve his own, would he have SO much
time to depredate upon his neighbour? It is
the idle and i'll taught who depredate, who
possess nothing, and have nothing to lose.
Teach, oh, teach them better!
Again, all we'll regulated thought goes to
shew the need Of economy, the foresight of
saving small means, of utilizing fractions, of
making the most of ones OWn resources
living within oneself it is called in the
neighbouring English Islands; but here it is
nothing but buy, buy, spend money upon
all foreign goods and food. Saving! bless you,
the enlightened dweller in this country thinks
nothing too valuable to waste; it is only l c.
5 c. is nothing. What is % c.? What is a
dollar? an ignorant ~despising of little things
Just at this very moment while writing, under
my window I have an illustration of the
feeling. The milk crier is passing the street
and I hear voices grumbling, "Oh go away =
with your cheap milk it is disgusting so
much milk, nobody want it! go way!' Thank
God it is cheap Would there were more
liking for "cheap milk than the pernicious
rum, and whiskey, and ale and "saal pork.
that is SO much used, muddling the senses and
taking away hard got money to bloat the
pockets of foreign brewers, and distillers, and
pork packers. If the training school but dis
pensed alone the knowledge to make wholesome
milk soups, and pancakes, and milk fungi,
and cheap butter and cheese with the wealth
ct wild green's, the ~country's own products,
which no one needs of, for the benefit of the
wrctched ill-fed Ipeasantry, it would earn the
III hit to be accounted a national blessing.
remain Sir =
respectfully
-OxyA-AUA