The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-28
Iernment to compel restitution of their

eminent to compel restitution of their
| plumber.
The officer who duplicated his pay ac-
count, and another who disgraced the
service by living for few days under
an assumed name with a woman not his
wife Mt boarding house in this city,
were promptly cashered They had no
pull. The profession Of arms is the
profession of honor. but Captain Ober-
| lin NJ Carter, convicted thief, lives in
luxury and leisure at the University
Club. wearing the uniform and drawing
the pay Of his rank, thwarting justice
and dsgracng the service, because he
has a pull. King Lear had method in his
madness when he said
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate
sin with gold.
And the strong lance of Justice hurtless
breaks;
Arm ii in rags, pigmy's straw doth
pierce it.
WHY WE'RE ONER-EDUCATED.
{. L. Huntington. vrile veteran OF
seyenty-eight, who crosses the continent
with no more ado than suburban com
muter going to Hackensack, and success
fully carries on vast enterprises requiring
the employment of thousands of men
and millions Of money, said last week
i'm San Francisco that one cause OF the
social and industrial crisis was the over
education of the masses of the peo-
Die. This sounds plutocratlc ana
cynical and some critics have placed the
observation in the same category with
the confidential remark of Vanderbilt:
The public be id
Mr.. Huntington is philosophical but
inexact He puts the cart before the
horse. Over education is the effect rather
than the cause of the alarming conditions
bv which modern society is menaced.
The introduction of machinery ana
the concentration of wealth have de-
graded labor ut the same time they
have made it superiluous. There Is
constantly increasing surplus or iabor
that becomes helpless and dependent.
Not day passes in which some lnven-
tion. or some application of natural force,
does not displace the man who WORKS
with his hands. The laborer no longer
com,etes with his fellow, but with q
machine. and the capital by which 1t IS
owned.
| count THE Man with the Hoe one
of the few great poems OF the century.
1t is a terrific Indictment OF modern
civilization: but the gang plough, the
cultiyator. the reaper and mower nave
made '1rhe Man with the Hoe impossl-
BILE. He is supernumerary. There Is
no place for him. Horrible as was ms
doom. a more portentous fate awaits MN.
He must tramp or die
In another half century unskllled la
Dor will be practically eliminated from
orr industrial system.
The dim perception that the frllimphS
of the future are to be achieved by the
thinking brain and not by the tolllng
hand have driven the young from the
farm. the bench and the forge to the
school. the academy and the college,
with the hope of escaping the monstrous
destiny of The Man with the Hoe.
The struggle for life becomes more
hitter and inexplicable The strong sue
coed. The weak fail Desires and am
!hitions are multiplied more RAPIDLY than
the means of their qualification.
We are passing through stupendous
revolution. whose causes are complex
and whose consequence are certain TO
he momentous.
The reimbursement of the social forces
is incomplete When the problem Of
humanity is accomplished, education Will
be. so widely diffused as the desire TO
know and the opportunities for happiness
will be commensurate with the capacity
to enjoy.
To lack this faith would be to belleye
that the universe rests upon moral chaos
and intellectual confusion.
JOHN j. INGALLS,.