Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-04


Necessities OF the peoplei and we have
long since recognized tho Importance
OF one part of the thing called educAO
tion-what Ia taught from boohA-and
have practically made that ms free as
the air we breathe, 30 l believe we
shall enlarge our conceptions OF what
constitutes education, and makes such
things aS baths gymnasia, play
grounds, music, lectures, etc, as free
10 all as the common school low 10,
q Inasmuch as a republic depends
on the character Of manhood, do you
not believe II IL the sacred duty OF the
state to promote, no far AZ lies In her
power, habits OF industry and TO main
tain sclf.respecting manhoodp
A. II most assurodly Is the sacred
duty Of the state TO promote habits OF
industry and TO maintain self'respect-
Ing manhood, and the imperative nee
essity OF this hour is that the city,
state and nation shall organize in its
collective capacity 80 that the citizens
OF this growing commonwealth may
live self-respectlng lives. We provide
Tor free education, Through the man
ual training schools, we even teach
our children how to work, and then
we turn them out into u scrambling,
lighting, quarreling mob (the compet-
tive SYSTEM, where every man Ia
struggling for himself In q grab all"
"catch MS catch can devil take tho
bindmost' game, foolishly expecting
that they will win SUGGEST they are
helpless babes pitted against trained
fighters, After having taught them
the art and beauty OF work, and how
IN work and how TO make beautiful
things, we fail to give them an oppor-
tunity TO work. We deny them the
right TO share In making and building
country that we ask them TO love, a
country that they want to love, and
this Is where the colossal failure Of the
present system reveals itself In liza
most hideous proportlons-in the ever
increasing army Of the voorhees,, in
the growing number OF those who bear
the curse OF the wandering foot and
ga from place to place vainly seeking
and begging and pleading for the right
to stand upon the earth, and the right
to participate and share in the glory of
the work that is going on about them.
BIT all this is to be changedi the air Is
filled with signs OF promise. The man
ifeAt destiny Of these United States Is
to save the great peoples from the inn
pooding doom that the narrowness Of
a few would bring down upon them.
Our future is to be heroic, spiritual.
W. are to be great people--great In
quality, rot in mere tigness We are
to manifest our greatness by our love
70, each other, and In recognition Of
the rights of our fellowmcn In provid-
inE opportunities for every man-for
evan the weakest child to live the best
possible life that is in him, We are to
realize the ideals that the founders OF
tia government forecast In the Declar-
axiom Of Independence, where they set
fc&th that "all men are created free
asd equal, and entitled to certain ina
liVnable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness"
There is but one place where real hap
piness can be found, and that is in be-
ing useful to some fellow human be-
ing.
Let me not be misunderstood. In the
juster order of society that is coming,
the right to work will not involve
slavish drudgery for eight or ten hours
day, but the right to participate in
creating the world about us and the
right to such conception of art as
that OF which William Norris gave us
a definition when he said that "art is
the expression Of mans joy in labor"
That is the kind Of work that all have
right to share in; that is the kind of
liberty that we are yet to know
through the larger recognition of So
cial obligation that is coming to us,
and coming with whirl-wind speed in
these closing years Of the nineteenth
century, Mayor Jones of Toledo.
We have all heard Of the man who