The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-12-13
A DEBATE
By Nora e. Hulings Eiegel.

BY Nora e. Hulings Eiegel.
Subject-"Which attainment Is the
most conducive to the negroes hap
piness, education or wealth."
reply, most certainly, education
is the first thing to be desired latter
spiritual poise). An ignorant person
can not black boots, which Is consid-
cred the most meniel of occupations.
as successfully as an educated one.
The education enables enables the
man to respect which ennobles his
position, thereby placing 1t upon a
higher plane than one of mere servi-
tude.
In this discussion, the man who
does nthe blacking is being consid-
cred and not his customer.
First class work Is now at such a
demand that the product of even the
most servile of occupations must be
finished with art or it will not be
acceptable by those who pay for It,
who keep it up, else it falls to
naught. for only the persons of
means can afford to cater to every
desire. therefore botchers are at a
discount.
Machines are so widely used for
the manufacture of every conceivable
article that hand made goods, ex-
cept of the best, are not demanded
only occasionally and then by the
wealthy class who can afford to pay
for their production.
These machines, however, must be
manipulated and the man who does
it must learn how, and the man void
of education aside from his trade,
can not perform his work as well nor
with as much satisfaction to all as
were he even moderately educated.
Without education man is of no use
alone but placed in right relation
to all other portions becomes an ar
ticle of great use; just so with man.
But man, unlike a machine. must be
capable of doing, or directing, and
according to the varied amount of
education he possesses, may he be
capable of accomplishing this. No
one thought is alone. 1t, like the
separate wheel of a machine, in in
cumbent for use upon all other
thoughts in the universe. Man is
not only a thinking being but he is
a creator, he produces thought as he
does the macine and can he, without
education, be free and untrameled
to do this? No! Education unbinds
and enriches thought.
Some persons have an idea that ed
ucation can be obtained only through
the medium of high schools and uni
versities. While these institutions are
without comparison they are not the
only means. A trade is an education
in a limited degree and at this stage
of the worlds progression a man in
possession of a good trade is more
fortunate. particularly If his mastery
be scientifically fostered, than were
he possessed of a college diploma,
unless the person is unusually talent
ed in some one direction. If so. he is,
of course. blessed, for he will sue
ceed in life anyway.
An education in our United States
is free to all, while the attainment
of wealth is not, except in strained
exceptions. Through education or
even a partial one. with a trade the
colored man is enabled to maintain
respectability. Inc furtherence Of
which the sobriety and industry
may terminate in comparative
wealth: while without education he
could not enjoy wealth If he procured
| ii.
am acquainted with a person who
has reached old age. along with the
possession of about five hundred
| thousand dollars worth of property
| He is entirely without a collegiate
| education. He has learned to write
his own name in order to sign doc
ments. etc. but further than that ht
can not go. He can scarcely read
Through his welath he has been en-
abled to travel a great deal and hal