The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-11-07
HAND, HEART AND HEAD.
An Eloquent Address Upon Educa-
ton Before the Georgia LeSisia-

ton Before the Georgia LeSisia-
ture.
Few men In this country excel DIR. j.
l.. M. Curry as a platform speaker,
and his favorite theme Is education, to
which he hos devoted the greater part
Of his life. As general agent of the
Peabody fund, he has closely studied
the educational needs Of the South,
and he Is entitled to be heard On this
topic. The Georgia Legislature last
week invited DIR. Curry to deliver an
address on education, and he complied
with the request. A synopsis Of the
speech was given by the Atlanta Con-
stitution, and it is copied herewith in
order to extend the benefits of this adj
Carolina. DR.. Curry is a native Of
Georgia, land this fact will uexplain
some of his illusions:
The speaker began with q compli-
mentary allusion to the capitol build
ing and referred to the fact that it had
been constructed within the appropri-
alton and without smirch or stain. He
was proud to speak In such an edifice
and In the presence OF so distinguished
an assemblage, gathered here for the
making Of laws.
Law making is the highest function
with which humanity can be intrusted.
1t demands integrity, intelligence, pa
triotism, political economy and finance
and a knowledge not OF the demands
but OF the needs of the pee q.
Divine law is the expression Of ID
impotence; human law Is a condition of
civilization under the p~rovocation of
atrocious crimes; communities have
been reused to such Indignation that
they have taken the law into their own
hands and summarily and sometimes
with savage ferocityr deprived q sus-
pected or guilty person of life.
In pioneer and frontier life communi-
ties have sometimes in self-protection
organized vigilance committees. Such
extreme exigency does not exist in the
South nor excuse illegal proceeding.
The race Of the criminal has not pos
session of the government. The white
people, the race wronged and outraged,
Is in power and as they are the judges,
jurors and sheriffs, there is not the
slightest possibility of the escape of
the prisoner.
A mob is a sudden revolution. It
does not reason, has no conscience and
its violence is unrestrained whether it
burns down an Ursuline convent in
Massachusetts or fortunes q negro ruff
fan in Texas. A mob of civilized but
Infatuated men, or of hungry, enraged
women, would violate all law, human
and divine. A mob saps reformation
of society, uprOots all government and
regards not God nor man.
Our free institutions cannot survive
a day except upon the union Of liberty
: and law. President Harrison uttered
an ominous truth at Chicago when he
said that "all social order, all domes-
} tic happiness and all loyal institutions
are dependent upon the acceptance by
all the people Of the principle of obedf-
ence to the law"
) 1t is a grave error to suppose that
J democracy means the right Of the peo-
, pie to anywhere and everywhere exc
, cute that popular will. Ours is a rep
resentative government. 1t has been
strikingly and truly said "Justice is
} in the hands of the people only when
it is in the hands of organized tribu-
nails"
} powers of legislation. Too many peo-
pie regard it as a sort of secondhand
providence and are eternally asking
| their representatives, swell, what are
: you going to do for us ?" In cases of
commercial disaster, agricultural de-
preston, financial crisis and national
bankruptcy we are too prone to look
for Legislative cures, for political nos
trums. Legislation cannot increase
OiiC lCdi "OdiOi Va IL lGlu "LlCu 10 W
be found in the returns Of agriculture.
There are q good many knaves, dema-
gOgues M fools who are trying to
find d short cut to national and indi-
vidual prosperity, but treating wealth
as if it were a thing that created it.
self without the intervention of labor.
Great changes and new systems in
trade and finance are not to be ordered
as you would order a suit Of clothes.
HIStnrU n0n1nnnc cnuth ono bubbles
John Law schemes and shin-plaster
currency. Building Chinese walls
around commerce never made u nation
prosperous, nor the absurd idea that
what one nation gains, another loses.
We have had a serious agricultural
depression. The abolition of slavery
and the war impoverished the South
and paralyzed Southern Industries.
The remedy Is to increase, to diversity
and make more valuable our products.
We need intelligent and skilled labor.
l heard a man say the other day, q
amt got nothin' and don't want moth
in" Now what good was he? What
we want ID an alliance of brains and
hands. Labor is the source of wealth,
and tho more skill the moro produc.
ton.
In the United States owe 1000, OOO,-
600 horsepower tolls for us. Science
in the engine has found practical ap-
plication n cease the mere theory
when it becomes II partner of the use-
full arts. Science has relieved labor
from q weary struggle in almost every
conceivable avenue of labor. Lower
ing cost, ~cheapening necessaries and
giving toll an increased reward.
This machinery OF wealth-creating
industry demands educated intel
ligence. OF paramount Importance to
the State is Observation-Disclosures educa-
ton. Here is q scope for the highest
craftsmanship. Education is the basis
of civilization and the ono vital condi-
ton of prosperity.
William Evart Gladstone Is the great
est statesman the world has produced
in this generation. He is not only a
statesman, but he is ascholar. a writer,
an artist and a critic of m%atchless
ability. He has shown his a%pprecia-
ton of education by giving the COM
missioners of schools a place in the
premier's cabinet. Recently he said, |
THE department that deals with ed
ucation Is the most important in domes-
tic administration"
One of the most important and pro-
found changes in the ends of modern
education is the incorporation in the
curriculum of manual training. 1t
brings education into contact with
every day pursuits and IL most i'm
portant interests.
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