The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-19

s~L.sarv in order 20 sI'aln Vuo "s"0h
Deoe lights of liberty. Is not our
bunS n,der the circumstances to teach
dny u,on by enforcing the example in
tbe snoent that will save them from
lS"ir own ineficiencyf =
tnsH Know that education is the bull
~ liberty. Is it not duty to
Hsi4 IN directing them to acquire that
ID aro.tion which we know will consti,
euut bair own strength as a people in
gorldi We have been used as the
..ument to save them from the in
Soisney and wrongs Of others; so
-. 9n0er Of inevitable necessity points
~ that it is our duty to save them
I'm themselves as they evolve to a
higher plane.
We nog there are those among US
I'm would moke political capital out
gtbese questions. Some will say, I'VE
-rst avoid tsngling alliances outside
Jopr own borders," but this is a de-
nsndent psople resting upon US for
tIO,
Others say, government should de,
,snd upon the consent of the gov.
s-ned," but they have no government,
,or have they ever had one established
IN liberty, nor do they know how to
o-gsnizs it as we do. Tt ia for assist
snce in formulating this, and protec
tim while il is being established, that
all the honest and better elements OF
the islands arc looking out for US to
extend them.
Oilers say, ''Ghat such assistance,
such protection, is purely an admins,
trstion of imperialism over a con
7uered. an ignorant and feeble people,
and that the United States should
blush with shame at becoming the op
pressor." This is the voice Of the dem
sgogues, the partisan place hunters
who would turn out the most loyal
srd efficient officials at home to make
plsces for themselves and their party,
regardless of how it may j~eopardizs
the interests Of the poor islanders
whom they assay TO serve.
The great problem confronting US
muss hRve-and thank God, it is in
most part having
PATRIOTISM AND NOT -PARTIsANIsM,
to solve it. As a child needs teaching,
erection and protection from the
cradle to manhood, so these liberated
islanders, trembling in the balance OF
their own destiny, only know they
want liberty; but how and wherefore
they are TO get it they know not.
We see their wants and comprehend
their necessities. For them we must
formulate as for a brother who may
ere long stand up beside US, and al we
would shield ourselves from danger, 80
we must guard them from ignorance
Or c~raftiness within as we'll as without
weir borders.
The problem exists in human rights
nagainst human wrongs and it looms
up in the high sphere of sovereignty
and must be settled there, both fol
them and for ourselves. Under pres,
ent circumstances obligation is as
great to the poor, ignorant and maybe
heathenish ones among them as it is tc
the crafty, self appointed few who
claim to represent the masses.
AS before stated, we know that
EDUCATION IS THE BULwARK OF LIB
EhTY."
We shall be false to ourselves and
traitors to their interests d to their
generations yet unborn, il We do not
completely formulate for them a sys
ten Of free schools, to be maintained
at least half the months Of the year
with compulsory attendance, and that
eventually the elective franchise Of
their people shall rest upon a degree Of
knowledge &quired.
This lesson so dear to us, and which
has cost US so much treasure and blood,
should be impaired to them with ex-
ac:Dess and nerved with such execu
tive for, e as will assure it to their
WEAKEST s WE'LL AS STRONGEST Z
PIE.
When we shall have done this we
have clothed them with that power by
which they may continue to SAVE
THENsELvEs IN FREEDOM.
Oar duty TO them will not cease, nor
shall our moral obligations TO them
have been az wered until we have seen
that free education, including indus
trial training, he's been effectively
within reach of all the people Of the
is,aads at least twenty years, and that
TOO, perhaps in the English language.
When the United States freed the