The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-08-05
An Ounce of Prevention.

This is the title OF new volume which
b as Just been added to the reform literature
of the day and treats of that most important
question, taxation. The book was written
by Augustus jacobson, and is published by
Charles H. Kerr q Co., IT'S Dearborn ST.,
Chicago, price In paper SO cents. The
object of the work as expressed by the
author is to "Save America from having a
Government of the Few and by the Few"
Col. Jacobson's "Ounce of Prevention"
for the evils of the day which are most
loudly complained Of is succession tax"
to be applied to manual training schools, by
which every child shall receive an educa-
ton of the hands as we'll as the head. This
is an excellent remedy as preventive, but
after the disease has reached the advanced
stage which it has now attained of gov
eminent of the Few for the Few, we fail to
see how the preventive remedy is to be APP
piled. The parties now in control of the
government are the ones who would he most
affected by succession or an income tax
and will oppose such taxes to the bitter end
Monopoly is now in the saddle and until it
is placed hors de combat, no such remedy
can be thought of. And supposing an army
of fcallv educated lahorers
were ready to take the place ofthe drudging
labor so universally employed, would it be
acceptable to the great corporation employ
ers? The proof is abundant that they want
not that kind of labor, but rather the dumb
and more ignorant class who have been de-
graded TO the level of the brute by class
government in the old world,
The writer would have the manual train
ing school made part of our public school
system, the parents and guardians of chill
dren, compensated for supporting them in
school between the ages of ten and twenty,
which is necessary step that the problem
of universal or popular education involves.
Parents of limited means and small incomes,
derived from their daily toll are not able to
bear the heavy burthen Of feeding and cloth
ing children while they are receiving an
enducation from the State, and the State is
performing but half its duty when it lays a
heavy tax in placing the support of the
children on the parents, after those children
have become able by their labor to contrib
rte something to the meagre family income
The logic of the public school is the support
of the children after they have become able
to earn, while acquiring the manual educa-
ton and the question of revenue or the
source of it, is pointed out by the anthor of
San Ounce of Prevention" But the class
of greed have grasped that revenue and will
hold on 10 it 10 their last breath We would
like to quote some passages from this enter
| tanning book but have not space at present
1t is work which should be in the hand of
every person who is enough of an American
citizen to care whether American irstitu-
tions are to be preserved or discarded for
those of the effete countries ofthe Old World.
"An Ounce of Prevention is a mirror of
present conditions and attempts to point ont
a remedy for the oncoming tempest whose
rumblings are becoming so distinct that
even deaf ears are beginning to be startled
by the ominous sounds.