Feliciana sentinel., 1892-08-06
why are Ar,er,es. Boys crowd
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Jutlse Ilaxcn, Of the butler
Lawrence district, Pennsylvania.
look occasion, the other day, I"
rxpre.s h,e views on the subject
Of the drift Of American boys
away from manual employment.
in the direction Of the so-calle<a
learned professions. In the man,
his hunOr's observations arc very
sensible. hut he falls into the COM
mon crror of ascribing ccrta'"
Causes tO wrong facts.
eve ~ y people," he says.
'.are shutting the stasOrs "ga'nst
youmG Americans learning ANY "i
the brsnche. Of skilled latn'r. and
the re.as,u of this h the very
striueent law. which srs passcs!
.n.l ris0ronsly enforced by labor
organisations. Go tas any ut the
wOrks where skilled labor % cm-
Moved aud see who Occnpy the
.k,iled labor positions. They are
EnrUreaue. The d<n,rs are shut
aeainst oar own yosng men. and
ahnus The ooly way - Am:s'cee
hoy en- 81 - oppHssnssy q
Iesrning . skillsd hbs'r tsoSe -
for hin &c have e0ssse foselgoss
to ssDusk him. II = . deptora-
bic state Of affairs. bot 1t I" true.
Go to our steel rod mills and you
will 6nd that foreigners are in the
best poeitions.
IL visited the P,ttsburg plate
glass work plaat some time ago
and found that every position re-
ouirinR skilled labor Was filed t,y
ia European. Unslerrtsnd me.
the Europeans are filing those
places, but dcl'lOre the Dece.sity
which exists for bringing them
here. The bars are fast filling up
in the cities, simply because the
Young men want to earn living
and the d,,ors are shut against
, them by labor organizat'ons AND
they are compelled to study law. >.
There 10 \ far more potent
: cause for the condition so mourn
fully described, than the power
! of trade organizations; it is
reason, too, that touches Ameri
I cans in :: tender sPot--the publ'
r schools. II there 10 one thin
more than another clearly attri
I butabie to the educational system
maintained by the state in thu
3 country, it is the tendency t
. emascuiate ITS own result of prac
!. tical utility. The half-cducatior
r the moral effect of the publ
schools. especially IN the so-style
higher grades un@ts boys an
IS young men for any practical Gu
9 ling in life. The professions Al
n ovcrcrowtled, hopelessly SO,
t, Judge Hazen observes. to the VA
l. majority annually recruited ITO
g. ,he n.wl,. .. aged aspirsnts, fro
}. public schools and colleges. NJ
sr chanical trades and manual sk
are an imposs,bility to the Ame
u ,can youth with the prevalent foo
a, ish American notion that he
-. "too well educated" for such er
!, ploymeut. Another marked d
er feet of our false and inflated ~
i. tenn of public education is the fo
- tering of silly ideas of gentilit
.r the degradation of manual lab
Ne and the physical, political and
al tsllsctaal superiority Of Am'
leans. The shallowness and I
volity Of the latter assumpti
~ could not find better illustrate
IL than the fact complained of
10 Judge Hazen's pronouncem<
he that ''foreiguers''-that is to I
he persons who are not public sch.
~ Americans- are crowdinE ''you
'er Americans out Of the race
IN lucrative positions in all brancl
'rd of skilled labor.
eet It is not labor organizati'
and trades unions that are CO
;, polling American boys to ST.
law, so much ~ the absurd,
80; democratic and unuaniy be
,,. concerning the aim and ends
education created and nurtu
~ In the artificial atmosphere
roo our great public institutions
,.n tho propagation Of social. me-
.... and Intellectual misfits.-L
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