The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-15
Mr., HUNTINGTON
ENTERS PROTEST
Did Not Say Education
Was a Bane.
WRITES TO NEW YORK HERALD
DECLARES CERTAIN HEADLINES
DID HIM AN INJUSTICE.
Draws a Fine Distinction Between
What He Said and What the
Editor Thought He
Meant.
WRITES TO NEW YORK HERALD
DECLARES CERTAIN HEADLINES
DID HIM AN INJUSTICE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. June H.-C. p. Hunting
ton sends the following to the editor OF
the Herald:
Some one has sent clipping from the Herald
of May Is on the subject of my remarks de-
livered in San Francisco at dinner given by
myself to the heads of departments or the
Southern Pacific Company. Plea neaalnes
quote me as saying that Education is Amer
ica's Bane" Below this headline. in the body
of the article, you quote correctly the words
that said, and they do not at all bear Out
this headline which certainly does me an IN
Justice as 1 neither said, intimated nor thought
education was Americas bane; and 1t seems 70
me the Herald should not have printed the
headline, or else it should not have printed the
words l did actually say, as the latter In no
sense confirm the former.
| should not have noticed 1t had IT not ap-
peared in a great daily like the Herald, which
l feel quite sure does not desire to put INTO
any one's mouth statement which he not only
did not make, but which discredits his com
mon sense Tours very c. 'f P. HUNTINGTON.
Here is what Huntington said. in the
speech which he admits was correctly
quoted in the New York Herald-the Her
aid getting it's report from The Call. If the
words he uses do not indicate his belief
that education is America S pane, what
do they mean?
regret one tendency in our country adj
mirable as are her institutions. 1t is almost
heresy TO say IT, but do not mind taking the
responsibility for that Is one of the things
am used TO. 1 refer to the increase of the
higher education for the masses. The Anglo
Saxon has easily outstripped all his competi-
tors in those things which make for the COM
mercial growth and success of nations be-
cause he has been, above all other things prac-
teal While the preparation for professional
life requires advanced knowledge, 1t seems TO
me that the vast majority of our young people
spend too many of their vigorous years of youth
inside the schoolroom and not enough in the
practical work of life. The years from fifteen
TO twenty-one immensely valuable for they
are the years of keen observation, individuality
and confidence. In many cases-quite too many
they are spent in examining the mind with
knowledge that is not likely to help a young
many young men with college educations
standing about waiting for something that will
never come because the work that lies nearest
at hand is not to their liking? Somehow or
other our schools. which teach young people
how to talk do not teach them how to live.
have come to California one-thrd of my daily
mail is made up Of appeals for help, and these
calls are about equally divided between
quests for contributions to help pay off debts
and mortgages which should not have been
contracted; applications of young men out of
cries for succor from the sick and suffering
poor, who must be cared for, whatever NAV
be the cause of their sickness their poverty
and the poor we have always with US. The
sons of farmers are forsaking the fields be-
cause the cities are more attractive to them.
1t seems to me that slowly but surely there
is growing up a stronger and stronger wall of
caste with good honest labor on one side and
frivolous gentility on the other. We seem to be
fast outgrowng those things which when orr
fathers lived. were called sterling qualities but
now called follies or work that a gentle
man should not do though all honest work
was not honorable work. The world has grown
small. When 1 was a boy ii a very big