Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-06-01

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most Of the South American limitations
Of the United States constitution has
been merely a long series Of wars be-
tween the military and civil authori-
ties, governmental convulsion after
convulsion, revolution after revolution
and uphcaval after upheaval. What Is
the cause Of all this? II II not due to
the form of the South American rcpub-
lies, but to the Ignorance Of the South
American people. Tho reason the
American ballot box for the last hun
dred years has stood as solid as Plym.
outh rock 10 due largely TO the fact that
II Is handed to the American boys over
the schooihouse desk. We have
strong republic today because we have
strong. intelligent. individual voters.
Has any government offered greater
educational facilities than ours? No
sooner did the Puritan settle In old
New England thnn he Immediately be-
gan to erect bis institutions of learning
The pilgrim fathers landed in Plymouth
In 1920, yet only sixteen years later, or
in 1896, we find that Harvard college
was founded in Cambridge on the out
skirts Of Boston. We find the Dutch
and the English settlers drifting down
into Connecticut. and what happened?
There Yale college is started in 1901
at Saybrook. We 60 south. and what
do we find? Pennsylvania aud all the
middle states honeycombed with col
lcges and academies. We 60 west, and
there institutions Of learning are scat
| topod oxyoryxUhopo Tho oobnnlpoovv, S1octy
Is seen at almost every crossroad, and
the college Is intrenchcd In nearly
every town. All. yes, the modern Ma.
poleon would have hard work here
to start IN international conflict just
for fun or to crafty his ambitions.
He would have hard work to upset
us financially. socially or politically.
Why? Because the people Of this age
In our beloved land have too much in
telligence to follow such leader as the
Little Corsican."
Liberty and Education.
What Is the practical application of
this thought? Chief among the endur.
Ing guarantees Of future peace Is the
presence of our schools and school
teachers in foreign lands. Too much
money cannot be expended upon our
public school system. Porto Rico and
the Philippines will never be truly con-
quered for America until American
, schools have educated those colonists
and taught them to realize the mean-
: ing Of American liberty. That was a
very wise move Of the United States
government which few years ago
brought the Cuban schoolteachers I'M
der the classic walls Of old Harvard.
Roberts college in Constantinople and
the Presbyterian schools at Beirut are
the two wedges which shall overthrow
China, through the influence of our
missionary schools. shall yet become a
gigantic nation. sworn to perpetual
peace and to forever avert the horrors
Of another Boxer uprising And that
{ vast government Of Russia. made up
of many mixed peoples and heteroge-
Eeous nationalities, speaking 0s many
: different tongues as did tho workmen
, at the tower Of Babel. shall yet become
r one through the missions Of peace. Oh
9 my friends, we cannot honor too much
= our public schoolteachers and the pro.
: fessors Of our colleges as among the
J. greatest Of wonder workers who are
q teaching US that war shall be no more
9 And here let me state another fact
}. We not only honor the teachers and
r professors who have given to us oui
u education. but we also honor men like
& D. X. Pearson, who with their money
y have made 1t possible for this same
t kind Of teachers to carry that educa
9 ton to some who would never be able
t to get 1t but for their bene6cence.
4 consider d. X. Pearson one Of TIL
J. most practical and far reaching philan
Q thropists OF this age. He does not take
J. his money and pile 1t up in some great
v city university. while the young peopl,
8 can dnd an education in many othel
Q schools near at hand. but he gives herr
}. and there a few thousand dollars t.
e struggling colleges far out IN the coun
u try. away from the great centers. HI
Q gives there few thousand dollars ant
II yonder a few thousand dollars. ant
It everywhere his money goes to strug
Cling colleges. where 1t is bringing
d forth its fruit. some thirty. some sixt!
r and some hundredfold. To SHOW
s what good bis money is doing. woul(
quote the words spoken by grea
J. Judge in the east. A friend came t.
j. him one day and said. Judge. dom
t, you think you would have made you
. success quicker II you had graduated
y from Yale or Harvard or Princeton
q and had had the help Of the alumni az
II ISOLATION OF one Of these institutions?
c "WeN." answered the distinguished
y jurist. II do not know whether wOul'
!. have made greater success had
It been educated In the east instead Of Il
It little farmers college in the wesl
Es But this one fact I know-had Their
.. not been little farmers college nea
0. to my fathers farm ! would ueve
y have received an education at all.
s. When we praise the schoolteacher as
Q, messenger Of international peace "
,r must also praise the noble men wh
give OF their wealth to support th
e. schools in out Of the way places. w
Ia must also praise the Christian dii
"a ciples who give Of their little to sur
Ia port teachers In foreign lands as we
In as to help support the small sectar!a
- schools and colleges in our own.