Iron County register., 1899-03-16

| he would go among the professors in
our colleges to find it. Mr.. George
sprang from his chair, brought his
hand smartly on my shoulder exclaim-
| ing, You have hit the nail on the
head!"
Before me lies a summary of the re-
port of Tentearo Makato. graduate of
Yale. to the Japanese government-one
| of the most scathing things upon our
high schools. and the kind of scholars
they turn out, that | have ever read.
He agrees in the main with Quesnay.
and the French physiocrats. with Adam
Smith, and John Stuart Mill; but with
our later economists, and those of
England. he expresses disgust. with
single exception; and ne forbears to
driving his japanese readers away
from his pages.
1t seems that Mr.. Neeslma, the
japanese Minister of Education, who
had been a strong advocate of the new
regime, was puzzled because the intro
duction of what was called, and what
he had hoped and believed would be.
labor-saving machinery, had. instead
of increasing the number OF children
in the schools, actually lesseIed them.
With the consent of his government he
required the Japanese minister al
Washington to detail some capable
person to visit the localities and COM
munities where machinery was most
used. and investigate the social effects
of the use of machinery. lwashida
detailed Mr.. Teremoto, a graduate of
American schools, who. after some
months, found himself forced to con-
clusions very different from those to
which his teachers. both in Japan,
and in England and the q. S., had led
him. Feeling that "we are always
surer that we see a star when We know
that others see it," he made a prelim-
mary report, but asked that a more
competent person be commissioned to
complete the Investigation. Tentearo
Makato was so commissioned; and af-
ter two years in the Workshop, hOvel,
library, and school. he found himself
forced, against his former teachings.
and acquired tastes, to the same con-
clusion to which Teremoto had come.
With a voluminous report. composed
largely of criticisms of our best writer's
on social topics. and comparison Of
their conclusions with the actual facts
that came under his own observation,
he enclosed a copy of Progress and
Poverty as embodying the conclusions
TO which he had been logically forced.
Had the Prof. and the editor exam
ined the whole field, as Makato did,
they too would have seen that there
was a necessary prerequisites
abolition of pradial slavery. Pradial
slavery results from making access to
land purchasable only.-denial of ma
tional right to national opportunities.
Unless we first solve this problem dis
cussions of the questions commerce,
education, finance, criminology, and
of government in general. only involve
US in denser fog and deeper gloom.
The state school is soclalistic; but
present conditions force US more and
more in that direction. Only small
minority of parents would be able TO
school their children to-day without
state aid; and that minority grows
smaller every day. But when the
state be comes the father it becomes the
anchor too, and we must soon come, if
we have not now. to point where, in
the language of Henry George, instead |
of an Intelligent reward of duties and |
earnings Re shall haze a Roman dis |
p9 Sicilian corn, and the dem |
agogue viii become the Imperator.
VIM. CAMM.
Murrayville, Ills, March 5th, '99.