The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-13

cause the men that have made this money
from the brain and muscle of their fellow
men have ever felt That II was not quite
sought s to balancs their accounts BY leaving
something for universities or the establish
ment of libraries. drinking fountains or to
would have been. 1 think. far better had
they used this money to better the condition
Of the men who really earned IT,
So think that when We become c1vllfZec
great corporations will make provisions foi
men who have given their lives to tne:.
service. think the great railroads should
They should take care of them i'm old age.
They should not MAIN and wear out their
servants and then discharge them and al
These great companies should take care OF
the men they MAIN; they should look out
for the ones whose lives they have used
OF their prosperity. Upon this question
pucic sentiment should be aroused TO such
a degree that these corporations would be
throw away the broken old man as they
would cast aside rotten tie.
1t may be that the mechanics, the work
ingmen, will finally become intelligent
enough to really unite TO act in absolute
concert Could this be accomplished then
a reasonable rate of compensation could
be fixed and enforced. Now such efforts
are local, and the result up to this time
has been failure. But II all could unite
they could obtain what is reasonable, what
Is. just. and they would have. the sympathy
of a very large majority Of their fellow
men. provided they were reasonable. But
before they can act In this way they must
TO Know ea What an' IS Teasonabie and honest
enough TO ask for no more.
So much has already been accomplished
great hope, Of the future. The hours OF
labor have been shortened. and materially
shortened, In many countries There was
a time when men worked fifteen and six
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work is no longer than ten hours. and the
tendency Is to still further reduce the
hours. By comparing long periods of time
has been made. In 1850 the average amount
earned by the laboring men. workmen, me-
chanics, per year was about $50 1t is
now about $500, and 81 to-day Will purchase
more OF the necessaries OF life, more food,
clothing and fuel than IL would in 1860.
These facts are full of hope for the future.
All our sympathies should be with the men
who work. who toll, for the women who
labor for themselves and children. because
We know that labor is the foundation Of
tides that support the structure and glitter
ing dome of civilization and progress.
EDUCATE THD CHILDREN.
Every child should be taught to be self
supporting, and every one should be taught
to avoid being burden others it would
shun death. Every child should be taught
that the useful are the honorable, and that
they who live on the labor of others are the
enemies OF society. Every child should be
taught that useful work Is worship. and that
intelligent labor is the highest form of
prayer.
Children should be taught to think, to in
vestigate. to rely upon the right Of reason,
OF observation and experience: should be
taught TO use all their senses, and they
should be taught only that which in some
sense is really useful. They should be taught
the use Of TOOLS to use their hands, to en-
things. Their lives should not be wasted in
the acquisition of the useless or of the al
most useless. Years should not be devoted
the study OF history, which, for the most
part Is a detailed account OF things that
never occurred. 1t is useless to fill the mind
and deaths of kings. They should be taught
the philosophy Of history, the growth of ma
t tic Of phiiIosophies. theories: and, above
the Importance not only of financial but of
mental honesty: TO be absolutely sincere; 10
utter their real thoughts. and to give their
actual opinions, and, If parents want honest
children, they should be honest themselves.
1t may be that hypocrites transmit their fail
ing to their offspring. Men and women who
think one way and talk another can hardly
expect their children to be ABSOLUTELY sincere.
Nothing should be taught in any school
that the teacher does not know. Beliefs. SUI
perstitions. theories, should not be treated
like demonstrated facts. The child should
be taught TO investigate. not to believe. Too
much doubt is better than too much credu-
lily. So children should be taught that il is
their duty to think for themselves. to I'M
Real education is the hope of the future.
The development of the brain, the civiliza-
ton of the heart, will drive want and crime
from the world. The schoolhouse is the real
cathedral and science the only possible
savior Of the human race. Education, real
education Is the friend of honesty, of moral
ity, of temperance.
We cannot rely on legislative enactments
TO make people wise and good; neither can
We expect to make human beings manly
and womanly by keeping them out Of tempt
alton. Temptations are as thick as the leaves
OF the forest, and no one can be cut of the
reach of temptation unless he is dead. The
great thing is to make people intelligent
enough and strong enough not TO keep away
from temptation. but to resist it. All the
forces of civilization are in favor of moral
ity and temperance. Little can be accom-
plished by law. because law, for the most
part. about such things Is destruction OF
personal liberty. Liberty cannot be sacri-
feed for the sake Of temperance. for the
sake of morality, or for the sake of any,
thing 1t Is of more value than everything
else. Yet some people would destroy the
sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Lib
virtues that the as sun does to life. The worie
had better go back to barbarisms to the
dens. the caves and lairs of savagery; bet
ter lose all art. all inventions, than to lose
liberty. Liberty Is the breath of progress
1t is the seed and soil. the heat and rair
of love and JOY
THE HIGHEST AMBITION.
So all should be taught that the highes
ambition is to be happy and to add to the
well being of others; that place and power
|. are not necessary to success; that the desire
to acquire great wealth is kind of in
sanity. They should be taught that it is 6
waste of energy. waste of thought.
waste Of life, to acquire what you do no
need and what you do not really use fol
the benefit of yourself or others.
Neither mendicants nor millionaires are the
happiest OF mankind. The man at the bot
tom OF the ladder hopes to rise; the man a
the top fears to fall The enc asks; tn
| other refuses, and by frequent refusal thu
| heart becomes hard enough and the hant
| greedy enough to clutch and ho.d.
Few men have intelligence enough. rea
| greatness enough, to own a great fortune
AS rule, the fortune owns them Thei
| fortune Is their master. for whom the,
! work and toll like slaves. The man VIII,
| something for the future, who can edu
| cate his children and leave enough t.
| keep the wo-f of want from the door o
those he loves, ought TO be the happiest o
men.
| Now society bows and kneels at the fee
| of wealth. Wealth gives power, wealth
I commands hattery and adulation. and 81
millions of men give ali their energies. a
well as their very sous, for the acquisition
| of gold. and this will continue as long a
society is ignorant enough and hypocritica
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