The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-08-04
CITIZENS e 1a3 WORLD.

CITIZENS e 1-3sG WORLD.
4 Distinguished ,s.s.aosr CT congress,
as sr ezpp..t.ii:ssee isssgss:- Ct ta@5 body was
closing stsss visit to ti.c D::.ee;;9s;c coast.
pronounced az o-;acie O. ,:.e con.ssc-t;uie
piazza CT a Puget sound hotel which IS
well worth remembering.
The duties OF the committee had re-
quired that the members should pass Up
the "coasss, - as the natives call it, from
"Aunt Jane,' or Tia Juana, as the
southwestern corner OF this nation is
called, as far north as Vancouver sound.
They had discharged this duty, and had
doubtless discharged it well, when the
oracle was delivered. In the afternoon
ccnafortlcf breeze which had passed
10000 miles across the ocean, with q
cigar rot yet exhausted, which was coed
enough for its purpose, the senator said
that on the first opportunity when he
could expect success he would introduce
a joint resolution into congress provid-
ing that each member, as soon as he
was elected, should be sent on well
planned journey through all the states
and all the territories. that he might
have personal knowledge of what the
country is whose Service he was to have
in hand.
The senator expressed the belief,
which is. certainly we'll founded, that
the nation would save in money and
would gain in administration if such q
plan could be carried out.
He certainly right in this opinion,
and this is no matter cf pleasantly or Of
the affairs Of single nation. Mr.. Nor
ison said very wisely in his Phi Beta
Kappa address last month: s.The new
epoch must, from its very nature, be-
come universal. The manufacture of
power has given the means Of traversing
the entire glebe with speed which
brings all races together. It will gradu
ally substitute the natural boundaries
Of convenient government for accidental
tribal divisions It will finally make
the human race single whole, working
for things which we cannot yet under
stand
We cite these opinions Of two distin-
guished men because the excellent conn
sci they involve is applicable to the
whole business Of education and IS
needed in our systems Of education,
public and private, as those who man
age them are tco apt to forget.
The whole tendency of life in our
time requires net simply a national but
cosmopolitan direction Of education.
Men are really citizens Of the world
now as they never have been before,
and the boy or girl who is educated
with tbs old and now absurd notion
that the village where the schoolhouse
is is the capital Of heworld is destined
to receive many shocks and to make
many hlunders, all Of which might have
been avoided.
The jobbi1g merchants have found
this out, and they know that they must
send their young men over the whole
country if they would know the needs
Of different localities and be able to pro-
vide for them. Adam Smith taught that
de.nand created supply. We have learned
that supply, well provided, creates in
turn new demand. The enterprise
which has sent these bold drummers,
the pioneers Of civilization as they have
been called, into other countries, that
the traveller may know what those na-
tions want and that the nations may
know what the country has to sell, has
been well rewarded. The steady in
crease in our exports Of manufactured
goods shows that the nation is reaping
the reward Of such enterprise.