Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-09

nations, and thus bring about better
understanding. Another mods would
be the cheapaning Of passage, and the
getting up of cheap monster excursions,
and international meetings, when the
people OF the two countries could
minglo together aud exchange Benti-
munta. But ghoge all there should hu
in tho two countries compulsory educa-
ton. For there is no greater foe TO
improved political and commercial reiR
tions between tho two countries than
Ignorance. This Hhoulu no impressed
on both governments AMI on both pea
pies. No community has right 10 lot
any one of its members grow up in
ignorance Of what is right and wrong
and thus jenpardizo tho general vol
faro. The tax puid for ignorance, TO
support 1t 10 it's poverty and punish its
crime, is greater than the cost OF eda
cation, TO say nothing of tho great loss
of undouhtnd wealth, to a nation by
the Ignorance of its citizens. There is
M wealth hut what is the result of
labor. The cOstiest locomotive, or
steam engine, or clock, or watch-even
tho gold and SILVER which the world
uses as money, was once only dirt IN
the ground, md of no value but from
tho labor bestowed upon it, by remov-
ing tho superfluous parts, and thus
giving 1t form, shape. and of COURSE
worth. Mind has enabled man TO make
tue elements. such as water, steam and
wind. do thoir work for him, and thus
enable one man to do the work of hun
nreds without their aid. If Watt,
Fitch. Fulton, Arkwright or Steven
son could not have read or had nat
| unuttirt,,1 rapafunH ua ntit
Ang lo.SRxon race or the world would
moi have had hundreth part OF tho
wealth it now has. Their Inventions.
the result of education, have made
| famine (once SO common impossible to
| those nations who use them. We do
not know what the world has lost by
the many mighty minds which in the
present and past have been smothered
in the sloughs of ignorance. The great
power OF State IL in tho mindo of it's
citizens. And th0Be minds, as well at
! it's material resources, 1t is the duty
of the State 10 SEQ developed. IL is
| Ignorance that causes men to akem
| war and kill each other. and thR
nations Of Europe to burden themselves
| with immense taxes, to support i'm
mense fleets and standing armies, where
! millions OF men arc taken from useful
labor, and have to he supported 10y the
remaining portion Of the community.
Education amongst tho mass, and
the knowledge of the evils and worry
of war would hiring about universal
disarming and universal peace, and
the foundation of government On tho
principle of Justice. 1t was ignorance
that caused our great rebellion, tho
sacrifice of near million of liyos. and
the loss in Expense and tho destruction
OF property of about eight Thousand
millions OF dollars. For the war com
menced about the right tn carry slaves
into territories, where slavery could not
exist, and where the owners would not
AMI did not, when they bad the right,
take them. Ii would have been proved
by iigureH that free labor was cheaper
than slaves: also that by tho mere
abolition uf slavery, that tho increased
value Of the land would have far moro
than paid the monetary value Of the
slave. For as u general rule, wherever
slavery existed the land sold from four
hundred to thousand por cent less
than similar land where it did not
exist, aud that tho country where
slavery existed, In addition sunk to
decay. III ia ignorance alone that will
prevent the union of the great Anglo
Saxon race into one nation, and thus
forever abolish wars between them for
to educated and just minds, the
measure has only to he examined
whom lis manifold advantages will be
seen.
by education, mean not long years
of study to MCGUIRE correct gram
NAUTICAL knowledge of tho language OF
dsnd aud eiIete nations, hut o! things
that are of uss 10 mankind, to enable
them to accomplish tho greatest and
hest results with tho smallest means
TO Tighten their labor: increase their
wealth; to make them more moral and
justin fact, TO learn such things AZ
are of most use to themselves and their
Kind. Therefore, not only should the
children of both nations no taught,
but such OF its adults that so desired
Public libraries should also he e6tah-
llshed ny law. in convenient districts
in both countries. accessible to every
ono. This should no ono of the first
measures the commissioners whose
appointment / have recommended
should urge on both nations We're il
not for the extensive system of con-
mon schoola, in tho United States,
from the immense emigration from &c
many different countries, speaking sc
many languages thero would he per
feet babhle Of tongues. AS it H. tbs
children of the emigrant attends tbs
public schools, and learns 10 snuak the
English language correctly, and con
sequently We differ in dialect leHa from
one end of our huge country till tht
other than adjoining countries do il
, England: or as Duponceau. thu Franct
writOr, says in his WORK on the Consti
tuition of tho United Statea, less thar
they do in France, by the mure crossing
of bridge. To this rule, however
there ia an exception in one or tive
sections of Pennsylvania. whore the,
, have opposed the introduction of com
mon schools, whore they cannot speal
, English, hut still use tho German
patoiH OF their ancestors, VINO came Il
r this country Ia tho early settlement u
that STATE
! IL tho commissioners are not ap
, pointed, or tho governments of both o
either country will not agree to thi
, plan. then would recommend that
I series of meetings be held in eacl
, country of th0ss favorable to Il union
/ or closer and mora intimate relation
> between them, and that associations b.
4 formed. whore these matters shall IL
discussed, and means be conceived
a whereby thu preiudicos of eagh ngains
a tia utnor he removed. Lot this IN
4 carried on similar to the corn Law
/ agitation in England lot societies b.
r formod to correspond with each other
/ lot those in favor of tho measure, Irave
from place to place in both countries