The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-08

EDUCATION.

eating, the gift of the plutOcracy, We
find the Republicans spending millions
in educating, the gift Of the p~lutOcracy.
On the other hand we find the Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union
spending several thousand in educat-
ing, the gift of the people. Here are
three compact organizations educating
the people into their several interests.
So we discover that IL IS not quantity
but quality of education the people
need.
Since these different organizations
are spending money to educate the
people, the question is, why are they
so anxious to educate them in their
particular doctrines? For whose bene
fit are they doing this educating? This
question is naturally and certainly an
swered by telling who furnishes the
money. Find out who furnishes the
money and you find out who are the
benefciaries. To the democracy the
money cOmesf from Democratic officials,
from banks, railroads. corporations
and certain commercial or manufac-
turing interests. To the Republicans
the money comes from the like source.
Not one man in a thousand pay into
these party Golfers dollar. OF late
the people have undertaken to educate
themselves in their W interests, and
they furnish the money for this pur-
pose.
This is very hard on the people to
have to furnish the money for their
own educating, while at the same time
their substance is being taken by high
official salaries and by special privi-
leges to the few who in turn use mil
lions of it thus wrung out by crime, to
educate them into an assent to these
wicked schemes, Was there ever a
tyranny so shrewdly c~oncOcted, as
appalling in its character, Sc threaten
ening to the American republic:
Here we account for the high salar-
les paid government officials. Here we
account for the wild extravaganza in
the expenditure of public money.
Each party vieing with the other in
pandering to certain interests, in re
Warding party service, to the end that
their mlniOnS may be the recipients Of
the nations bounty, and that too that
the people may be educated to believe
that a perpetuatiOn of this system is
their only hope.
We must have a political education
as regards u rights; but God forbid
that we should receive it through
party benefciaries, m~illionaires and
bankers. If we are going to receive les
son from these as regards our rights
or political duties, let the slave strip
his back for the lash and say no more
about it.
1t is hard, it is cruelty hard to be
forced to pay for ones W ~enslave-
ment, but such is the American system
of political educating.
Man is the creature of education"
The phase Of thought, manners, morals
and religion of every man bears the
impress of a previous training. He is
a pagan or q catholic, a Christian or a
heather, a Democrat or a Republican,
nine times in ten by situation, birth or
education. These facts taken with
another, that all organizations, whether
political or religious, in competition
with others, are prone to pander to the
baser prOpensities of man to increase
their numbers, cause those great con
vulsiOns in society and government
often repeated in the past. Therefore
if the people desire peace and a con
tinuatiOn of justice, truth and right,
they must not allow themselves to be
educated by men or the press personally
interested in the sort of lessons they
teach. If you find a paper o: man who
is going to be benefited by your adopt
ing his councils, take it for granted he
is a liar, without you have better proof.
This is the way that wisdom, safety
and prudence lead.
The field is full Of educators. The
land is swarming with educators.
Thousands T educating the people to
their loss and for the teachers gain.
The people are paying millions for an
education swelling with ruin andfuture
turmoil. Every once and awhile there
is a cOnvulsiOn in the nations. This
cOnvulsiOn is a natural effort of the
human mind to throw off the iron
bound cast of ages. All things are
c%Onvulsed, the foundations of society
are broken up and after much misery,
society takes on a new growth vigorous
and healthy at first, only to repeat the
same routine. The two most potential
aUses Of all this disaster are, as we
have said before, false education and
the prOneneSS of organized society to
pander or cOnnive at the baSer instincts
of man.
The question may be asked why so
much deceptive and fraudulent edu-
eating? 1t is plainly and simply an
swered by noting the fact that this
voluntary service is rendered by one
class educating other classes so as to
make them subsArvient to their in
terests. 1t grows out of the propensity
to dominate and to make money. No
sUrer way to dominate men than to
educate them as you want them, as
you would a horse or a dog.
In embryo there is one of the grand
est achievement going on ever recorded
in the roll of time; and that is the
achievement of the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union in educating
themselves. When the people arrive
at a full knowledge of the fact that no
rights, no justice, no freedom, a re-
main with them if they look to inter