The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-21

Guilty and expense OF reaching them have
increased, their rents have been raised
and the intelligence and skill required OF
them are much greater and their em-
ployers are much richer than they were
then"
what will be the effect Of your success
upon the elght-hour movement In the
United states?" / asked.
~ VIII be Tremendous. 1t win be the
establishment Of a principle and prece.
dent that will carry with II great moral
and economical force 10 the masters and
stimulate the ambition and the deter
imitation OF the men"
During your recent visit to America
did your observations lead you to COM
parc the condition Of British and Amer
lean workmen?H
Yes; individually British mechanic
who has lived some years In America Is
brainier man and better man for
the change. a pative american me-
chanlo, ON the average, Is smarter and
more pushing than he would have been
IL he had been born and ieducatet In
England, That Is due to the difference
Of conditions In the two countries, II Is
matter OF education and environment,
1t Is also influenced by heced!Iy Yours
is a new pick up new Ideas
| and novelties and develop them more
rapidly than we do. but you haven't the
permanence and thoroughness OF Eng
land and the older countries OF Europe,
You build for years; we build for CEN
turtles, Your workingmeR are more
restless and ambitious, but that isn't
always a good sign, We move more
slowly and more in mass than you do,
but we have an equally high standard,
During the last ten or fifteen years"
continued Mr. Burns, THE desplsed So
cialists and labor reformers have turn
ed England upside down, and among
other things we have greatly improved
the condition OF our worklnG people.
mentally, morally and Intellectually. We
have given them better education, We
are now sending the boys to school in
stead Of to the shops, and we are rapid
~ doing away with child labor and the
apprentice system. should like you to
see my school at Batlersea park where
we are educating the next generate OF
mechanics, In chemistry. mathematics.
physics, drawing, engineering and 9TH
er arts and sciences which will make
them captains OF Industry In the years
to come. We are extending the technlc-
Hl-school system so rapidly that 1t Will
not be many years before every work
lngman In England will have a proper
training for his task, He will not only
know, but win be able to explain, which
particular process in mechanics Is best,
He will know why Il is the best, and
can give sound reasons for his judg-
ment Although the United States has
the best mechanics In the world that Is
due to natural Ingenuity rather than
training. You put too much useless in
formation into the heads OF your young
people and too little OF the learning they
require In the practical affairs OF their
lives. You should take the desks and
the books out OF your high schools and
put In benches and tools and the uten-
sllssand instruments Of the laboratory.
Your foreign immigration degrades la
Dor. A country cannot prosper when an
llliterate man can earn az much money
as one who Is educated. Your working
people are better housed than ours, but
we have made great Improvement dur
Ing the last few years, by reason OF ex-
cellent laws to protect the health, pro-
mote the comfort and refine the homes
OF the poor.