The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-06-20

RELY TOO much upon the present order of
Things. instead of changing the order to
Snit the exigencies. The present sys-
rem of education does not dip down far
enough to reach the strata in most need
of 1.-THE class whose only salvation de-
pends in the future upon the amount
If this light that they will be enabled
to imbil-e, the class which constitutes
the people. the labOring class. They
are in great need of this, but it is not
they alone who will reap the benefits
which would result. The change would
Immediately run through our entire
system of government through our social
ideas. in fact, permeate every problem
nav before us and place the solution
0t least nearer us, if not within our GER
tain grasp. These are the channels
in which this advancement must tend,
these are the channels which need the
Improvement. And the task which L
have given myself is to place clearly
before the view the benefits which such
action must produce.
The present state of civilization is 1ar IN
advance of the widest dreams OF our
advance of the widest dreams
and coniectures of our ancestors:
We have accomplished what would
have been laughed at, If suggested
two generations ago. In every dlrectloh
there has been most wonderful ADVANCE
In science and politics as well. With our
magician, Edison, we have accomplished
miracles. Such letters have been placed
upon the wings of time, that in few
hours now, we accomplish what formerly
would have taken days and weeks. we
have so arranged with natures mysterious
fluid that it carries man and the voice OF
man from State to State and will soon
carry him, so that distance will be left but
a name. 1t has transformed night into
day and made it more beautiful. 1t has
through that mystic, wonderful box, pre-
served the dead's voice, and thereby
strengthened the belief of some i'll the
possibility of the resurrection of Christ.
In fact it has rendered reality, almost inn
possible things, and made man able to
accomplish many times as much as form
erly in his narrow span of life. But
though science has made greater strides
than any other branches, there has still
been vast improvement everywhere. But
what do we see from all this? NOtwith-
standing there still remains the same old
grievances, those common to the Door.
You need but walk upon the by-streets
of any of our most populous cities. but
pass out into the country among the Stam-
ina of the nation, and for the most part
sights are seen. Those who
toll most and hardest, to whom the most
unpleasant work is delegated, they re-
ceiye for their labor the smallest COM
pensatiOn, entirely disproportionate to the
unpleasantnesS. They, upon whom our
lristocracy ride, are bW ill-provided for,
rs the beasts of burden that they are.
They live upon the barest necessities, their
of living has been depressed so
ow that it is no less than a blot upon our
air nation. This is the class which needs
he attention of the civilized of today.
They are the ones whose condition must
n some way be raised whose condition
$ due it is true. in pant to themselves.
,ut far more so as to those who withheld
he remedy from theirgrasp, andyettWe Law
lain to be the greatest of nations, with
nut having made and efficient and eff
ectual effort 10 make ourselves the hap
hest. Else why such disconsolate an
eals of such men as Henry George and
V. III. Harvey with their mis-
applied causes and exaggerated re-
Orts and missapplied causes? There is
D me but one effectual remedy and that
) to diffuse higher intelligence among
hem. Place them in a position where
9Th their own eyes, unobscrred by ig-
ORANGE and prejudice, they may see the
ldderS height upon whose lowest round |
icy now stand. Let them see that there |
something higher and better which they
lay strive or with some hopes of attain !!
lent. Place them beyond the mere
ruggle for meat and bread. | have |
Ut asserted, nor do | mean to imply that |
lie laDorer OF the United States is behind |
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