The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-30

avail itself of 1t. He read statistics to show the enormous growth of manufac- turing interests in the South, a growth which had long since exceeded in money value the agricultural interests of the South.
 An Industrial Revolution.
 ''The American people," he said. have
 undergone an industrial revolution. The
 industrial capital of the world has mov-
 New York 1t has spread out all over our common country"
 The wealth and the prosperity of the South. the speaker predicted, which would come with the building of the isthmian canal. could not now be realized or ap- preciated. Upon the people of the South devolved the duty of popularizing the common schools.
 we must" declared Governor Mon- tague, dignity the labor of the heart | and the hand"
 He drew attention to the weakness of | an industrial condition which sent out
 its raw products and brought back the | material worked in other shapes at an enormous advance over the selling price. ''The trouble is not announced the speaker. That we send the wrong pro- ducts to the machinery but that we do not bring the machinery to the products We have left with Is the legacy of slav- cry, namely, that education is a short cut to labor. It is not short cut but a long cut. Education does not take a child out of labor but 1t does put him in labor. D He said that America wanted none of the French idea of educating boys to get easy places and girl to marry rich
 husbands. As g result of this idea, he said. France is approaching the lean and slippered age and stands laggard on the
 stage of action. He contrasted with this
 the Anglo-saxon idea of civilization. say
 ing;
 That country is exalted that puts pri-
 vate character above public place."
 He said that the English-speaking peo- pie enjoyed the same name, blood and
 common heritage and aspirations. The
 greatness of that people lay in the fact,
 the speaker declared. that they never
 committed their fortune to any one else but undertook themselves their cares. The
 French people, he said, depended upon
 somebody else to do something instead of
 doing 1t themselves. It was the thing,
 he said, to drift with the tide and an-
 other to clear path away and there take
 your stand for yourself and your chill dren.
 Avocations of Usefulness. "1t Is mistaken idea" said Governor Montague, Ito raise our boys up with the plan of making them lawyers. doctors
 or preachers. We should not force them Into the professions. Let the spirit call them. Our fundamental idea should be to have our children follow avocations of in- dustry and usefulness
 The speaker declared that it was equal ly honorable to make money by hand or
 mind. The negro, he said, who makes something with his hand is the best of his
 race and that is mostly true of the white
 race. He urged that the system of culti- vation should be broadened He declared that it was a mistake for A farmer to teach his son to look down upon farming or for mechanic to teach his son to look down upon house building. we have got" he said. ''too many people who think they are above farming and house building, who have newer
 amounted to anything and who never
 will"
 He spoke with regret of the short time
 school terms in the South and said that
 we either had too little money or too
 many schools. He declared that he would
 rather have one good school within five miles of his home than to have five bad
 schools within five hundred yards. Quality not quantity is needed in edu-
 cation" is the eppgrammatic way in
 which the speaker summed up his idea fthe common schools.
 In alluding to the way in which some schools are conducted and some teachers | are selected, Governor Montague declar- | ed:
 Standing by your friends is the curse l or American politics and American gov f ernment"
 | The sentiment met with an approciative
 burst of applause from the audience. Good roads. the speaker said, was a
 concomitant of good schools. He argued
 this proposition and submitted it to the
 consideration of the legislators who were | present.
 l T only know. as God gives me the light | to see said the speaker. earnestly, that | education Is the salvation of our civiliza- l ton. You cannot let the ignorant ab-
 sorb you; you must absorb the ignorant |" Local Taxation Again. | "One reason why I favor local taxa
 tion," continued Governor Montague. lis
 that the man puts money in public | schools through taxation is going to fol- | low 1t up with his interest" 1 He declared that this could be obtained
 through moral, intelligent public sen- | timent. The best man in Alabama. he | said, would give way before an honest