The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-24

they can claim their mind to be their kingdom 1t gives to us the theory as we'll as the technical and practical part of our trade, and as great English man once said, How much better man can do if he both acts and knows what he Is doing" England stands at present pre-eminently the head of all technical education, and Germany has quickly followed in her footsteps, With great advantage to the commercial and manufacturing trade of that coun- try What was Germany at the begin hing of the nineteenth century? It was in a wretched condition, and some of my readers will have read the re- mark made by the great minister, Stein, at the battle of Jena. He said: "We must make up intellectually what we have lost materially Prussian education began from that time on, and Zurich has now some magnificent educational institutions, The univer- sity of Strasburg cost nearly four mil lion dollars. Technical education pays for itself a thousand fold II properly conducted. The city of Manchester, England, is erecting another large technical and textile school at cost ot two million dollars. Do some Of my readers suppose that foreigners were so foolish as to spend this money un- necessarily? The cost will finally be admitted by all observers to be eco- nomical and beneficial. or course, practical training in our mills is the counterpart of any elementary school a61 h1,t county or state throughout New Eng land and the south needs IS to lnfuse into every workman the spirit and in stinct which would make every artisan an artist in his line of trade. When they do it would lead to the production of the best work, and that means sal vation to trade and advancement of the countrys interests in every direc- tion The weakness, I think, in this country has been on account of the great prejudice and animosity which exists against the mother country--a country which has done more to civil- ize the earth's dominions than all other countries combined. She has opened up the markets of the world and asks every other country to compete with her in sharing the commercial inter- ests. This is all because she leads; and let others follow the same path. There is strong dislike of the saying that they have again to follow in the foot steps of Great Britain" It used to be greatly disliked, and is that way now with some concerns in this country, so far as buying improved machinery is concerned. Germany, I would remind you, used to be that way also; but that country, the same as France, has found it to be the wise policy in following Great Britain in her methods of manu- featuring and trade. Voltaire once said that England rules the sea, France rules the land, and Germany rules the clouds" But, then, the clouds are no longer ruled by Germa- ny, for instead of allowing Lancashire and Yorkshire to be the workshops of the world for foreign textile trade, it is now in competition with those we'll known manufacturing countries. Eng fish capitalists have built mills with Germans, and the management are generally from Lancashire and York shire mills, and are strictly first-class
 
 all kinds of men, and mostly practical men, and some of them say that "theo- ry is no good;' tgive me practice" and T like the rule of thumb"
 These sayings are we'll known but absurd in lack of intelligence. The time has come, gentlemen, when theo- ry and technicalities of trade must be as familiar to each other as ''practice.'' We are not living in the eighteenth century, and hardly the nineteenth, but | are nearing the twentieth. Yet I have i drawn the attention of the readers of 1 this journal many times to the ancient | conditions of some American cotton | mills. Iris we'll known that the nation succeeds and expands her dominions | and trade the best which has principle | science, energy, zeal and practicability and that nation I speak of is combined | in the Teutonic race.
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