St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-08-18
Written for the FARNEs-
Ignorance is Slavery OF
LawlesS Freedom.

LaWleSS Freedom.
Pause, good people Of Louisiana.
pause on account of slavery's gall
ing chain, and on account Of law
less freedom, degradation. We
will no. ask you to pause for your
souls salvation. We will leave
that glorious privilege to those who
claim 10 be called 10 that most ex-
allied station.
However, we will state here that
as incompetent IS We feel ourselves
to pilot the way TO the white throne
where God IN mercy sits, asso-
ciated with your Savior aud mine,
We would be recreant to our in-
ward monitor and outward man.
hood if We did not point to the
New Testament and the spotless
life of Christ delineated therein.
1t is the road, and if We keep
therein, tho powers of hell and
human creed shall not prevail
against 10.
Negligence in education is wrong.
Wrong has, and will if persisted
in, work destruction to the dOer.
In some instances the wrong doer
is aloue distrusted, though he
through carelessness fails to be-
stow an education on his children,
turns over to society and his coun-
try men good, kind and honest,
though too weak in mind to with
stand the false and vicious afgu.
ment Of the falsely educated. hence
they fall prey to slavery or law
less freedom. Wrong doing in
such cases docs not only work out
destruction to the wrong doer, but
to good society and sure downfall
of legal liberty.
My Bible says, "He that will
not provide for his household has
denied the faith, aud is worse than
an infidel." Parents who neglect
the education Of their children have
most assuredly denied the faith
through carelessness. We think
none will argue that God has
given them brute children. Ii so.
food and raiment is all God re-
qulres. God has been graciously
good in bestowing upon your chill
dren minds that want your help.
Nay, demand your help, aud if you
wllfully neglect that help, l fear
your souls safety. and know you
are stabbing to the heart indie
pendence and legal freedom. Free
dom cannot live where the masses
are ignorant. False educated class
es will not perpetraie the good Of
the ignorant masses. Educate the
masses, and the few who get false
education will have no ignorant
easily to be influenced class of peo-
pie to work on, hence they will be
drawn to the good.
The poet said: cit Is as true a.
natures plan, it Is the mind that
makes the man.
He might As truthfully have said
it is flesh, blood, bone and muscle
that makes the body. 1t most as
suredlY takes body and mind 10
make the full man. The body may
develop to beautiful physical pro-
portions, if fed milk, bread, meat,
potatoes, and exercise. 1t not it
will dloop and be only q part OF
what God intended II TO be.
So with the mind. Children :
minds must be fed a, b, c, then
ab, ad, then comes readers, and
after that they must be fed on good
moral literature, papers, maga-
zines and books, new and up to
date. With such food their minds
will expand, and they will grow up
intelligent men. proud Of their
pareats or teacher who taught
them. Proud of their ability to
teach others. Fast friends " in
dependence and legal liberty. Fail
ing to get such food, their minds
will dwarf and they will fall short
of educated manhood, hence fall
into slavery or lawless liberty.
In 1875, when our independence
was almost powerIess, barefooted,
tracked by merclless savages, who
were pointed u deeds of cruelty BY
gold dealt out to them by that lib.
erty hating nation which Is this
day trying to enslave the noble
heroes of South Africa. ies, III
those dark days when independence
was babe in the cradle, thought
by nine tenths of mankind to be
illegitimate ond doomed to m ig-
nominious death, one of her pa:rl-
otto sous stepped forth and said,
"Give me liberty, or give me
DEATH That same hero showed
his astute knowledge of what i,
would take to sustain independence
when he said, ssWe must educate,
we must educate, or We must per-
ism" The educational warning
giyen by that learned and far.sce.