The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-10

do not teach the workers, head to help
his hands. A thorough study of applied
science and modern languages is suffi-
cient, but the necessity; for the require
:ment must, however, -ibe apparent
speak of a class that cannot afford an
ornamental ucation and will not have
it. II our farmers are ahead of other
farmers, it is the result OF their own
efforts. Our manufacturers, artisans.
commercial men and miners all excel.
A Pertinent Question.
be the best? Inferior animals advertise
that the farmers education has been
overlooked; drouth- stricken fields show
it; an ill-nourished field shows it; they
all cry aloud for better education. The
American people always find the man for
the hour, and the hour Is now crying for
the man to organize the education OF that
branch of the people who produce IS
per cent of the wealth Of the country"
The speaker looked for the coming man
where boards of control appreciated the
Importance OF this work. Agricultural
schools with their 5000 students, were
still cropping in the dark. In fact the
world possessed but few teachers, any
way! Some Of the schools had grossly
misused the money appropriated. in 1862.
They say women will snuggle things into
get a drink of whisky, and the speaker
believed that boards of trustees would
steal money, appropriated for agricul-
tural education. for other purposes ~.
The secretary's purpose when he went
to Washington was to help the different
agricultural schools, but he soon found
that he needed, first, to strengthen the
scientists there. Good work was now be-
ing done in Missouri by holding summer
schools for the instruction of teachers
Of primary and secondary schools, along
agricultural lines. The British govern
ment and Canada were doing much along
those lines. Alabama devoted $4,000 81 to
maintain an agricultural school In EACH
congressional district. Minnesota mas a
making progress Iowa excelied In In
struction in animal .husbandry. Many
other states were also progressing along
similar lines.
1.-THE department of agriculture gets
S6,000,000 annually for scientific agrieul-
tural research, equal to the annual re-
ceipts from the endowment Of the five
leading educational institutions Of the
United States. The department had as
sisted the Gulf states to Increase their
production Of rice sic, 600, eco worth; the
beet sugar industry, S15,000,000; the
drouth section farmers, $2,000000 worth
Of macaroni wheat; and has accomplished
many other things of equal import. You,
teachers, take the young Italian swede,
German, FTenchnan and Dutchrnan and
make him over into an enthusiastic
American. Take the young farmers and
make them over into the educated
American citizens" (Applause.)
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Mrs. Carrie CHAPMAN Gait, the next
speaker, took for her subject the topic
Higher Education and the Home She
| was greeted with applause, and began hel
| discussion by the statement that Though
many thousands OF young women had re.
Gently been graduated from American
colleges, it was not the modern criticism
that she was not qualified, or able mental
" or physically to undergo the work ant
/ equal the work of men. In the last feF
years the college attendance of men haf
| increased &C. per cent while the attend
ance Of women had increased 1887 pei
cent. At Adelbert college, in Cleveland
steps had been taken to debar womer
/ from the privileges of the school, where
| the women's attendance was larger thar
that of the men and they had also taker
| most OF the honors. AT Leland Stan
ford University the attendance Of womer
! had been limited for the same reason
/ The speaker spoke somewhat sarcastical,
/ ly OF the ungallant conduct Of the mer
students at Northwestern University, Co.
lumbia and Chicago. As matter oil
| fact 1t seemed that there was a sort d
struggle for supremacy going on Between
men and women with the prospect thai
women would gain the day. Indeed, The
illiteracy of men was much larger thar
that OF women. Ut s y y
In the Eyes of the world.
| Said Mrs Gait: s.s 4
It seems that In the eyes OF the world tn,
work Of the men rs 1gscE sgizapottantstha tina
of the women. Perhaps this Is the reason