Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-28
Carlisle Advocates
Manual Training

ST, LOUIS, Oct. 2S,--At today's
sessions of the Trans. Mississippi
congress, the principal speakers
were Charles J. Bonaparte Of Wash
ington, Charles Arthur Carlisle and
DR.. 4. II. Buckley.
Mr. Bonaparte made an eloquent
plea In behalf of the American In
dian in which he said: "The Ameri.
can nation owes its Indian wards,
first of all, and beyond aught else
justice; and justice Is what they have
less frequently and least readily OBJ
tanned"
Charles A. Carlisle spoke In adyo-
cacy OF more muscular education to
accompany the mental education OF
the public schools He said In part
Manual training and domestic sci
ence In public schools, with expert.
mental scientific farming stations in
every rural district throughout the
nation, should come and must come
soon.
A boy should be taught the funda-
mental principles Of civic, state and
national government; and he should
be taught briclrmaking and bricH
laying, plumbing and blacksmithing,
wood and metal working. and the va
rious branches Of practical CONNER
cial service and training. just as he Is
taught his A, b, C's.
The average boy who Is kept In the
ward schools Of our cities without
crowding, and who takes the regular
course in the high school. Is usually,
at the end OF that period, from six
teen to nineteen years of age. IL he
had taken a course Of mechanics to-
gether with his studies Of the usual
branches, he would step out into the
world with some practical equipment
for breadwinning But now he leaves
school with no technical knowledge
whatever, and IL compelled 10 earn his
own living must begin at the bottom,
often for the time being far below
others Of his age who chose to cut out
the last three or four years of school
life according to the regular schedule,
in order to enter the factory or office
and get an early start In the battle Of
self-dependence. The school would be
vastly more popular with both parents
and pupils If the preparatory work
was fairly divided between the educa-
ton of the mind In a knowledge of
books and the education OF the mus
cles in the skill of some useful handi.
craft.
We have, as the people of the ma
tion, before us great problems to
solve Of which this is only one~-but
in my judgment 1t is one of the most
important.
Speech Of Or. e. r. Buckley.
DIR. f. r. Buckley. OF Missouri,
made an address In which he pointed
out the necessity for department Of
mines and mining at Washington. He
said the Importance OF the mining in
dustry to commerce, manufacturing,
transportation, and even to agricul-
ture must be apparent to all thought
full men; and that there could be no
question as to the part which 1t had
played In the development OF the
country. Its Importance was increas.
ing very rapidly, surprising In growth
that OF most other industries. The
advocates Of a department OF agricul-
tnre. ne said, met with the same stub
born objections that the mining indna-
try is now meeting with In the advo-
cacy OF new department Of the ma
tional government. Yet there was not
one who opposed the creation Of the
department OF agriculture who would
have II abolished. Until there Is q de.
partment Of mines and mining, the
mining industry, he said, win never
he given the recognition which it de-
serves as one Of the basal industries
Of the country
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