The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-05-05
THE FARMERS AND THE SCHOOL

! 10 the fact that the cnlightened-e ed
ucated-f few" have proven more than
equal to the "uneducatcd masses in
IN, great struggle of life.
They are now beginning TO ask for
more equal division of the burdens
Of life. and a better share in tne pro
ceeds of their own labor. This is the
natural sequence of a higher ciyiliaa
ton.
Oppression and dospotism come %
ignorance Of undevolopcd intellectual
moral powers This nervous commotion
that has become 50 noticeable in the
30 call lower walks Of life is the re-.
suit OF better education among the
masses. Education enables man TO see
aud to appreciate the common brother.
hood OF man. Hitherto toilcrs nave
bron cropping. in intelpgtual n'gnt.
guided by only such light as he sal-
FISH few chose 10 turn upon their path.
True patriotism. true philartArorhy
true manhood seeks not an advnn.
'agc over. but an equally with his
fellows. nor docs it ,bide in 'Ea lark
qnagmirc Of ignorance. but ,"'hs lnc
highest plains of intellectual ana NOR
al attlmments: not fJi saf but fer
all classes and callineH
II is hoped that pros ~ nritatiug
agencies among our farmers is thc BE-.
ginning of a readWs,me1t of Dotn oar
social and our economic conditions.
have never lnowl Why fsrncr
should not have as good .i,'nr. bc as
gentcel. be as intelligent Dee as well
fitted for public trust as other men.
Conditions Of farm life are more ia
yorablr To a full development Of the
powers of mind and soul than condi.
tiuns Of any other calling among us
But enforced or abnormal conditions
under which farmers are toillng re
verse this order and tend TO suppress
and to dwarf their powers The far.
mer o. taught to lool, to the townsman
for leadership in business, in thought.
in morals.
Not only So but farmers and others
manual labornrs are taught 10y exist.
ing customs that it is theirs to 'oIl
and that tho greater part of tha benefits
that arr to be derived from tncir labor
rightly goes into the Golfers Of others:
/ that is. ths laborinf masses are only
wealth prducing machines Tor the 20.
vorcd few.
1 \ better civilization means a better
adjustment of lifc's burdens and Il
more equitable division of the earnings
of labor.
Better schools moan a better civil.
| i1ltiJn. Farmers who take their chill
dren from school to do farm work S" X
TO pcrgetuatc present unjust oppres'
sivc conditions upon their posterity.
when "A farmer cYultingly reads the
! statistics that foot up such enormous
proceeds from the cotton crop OF nc
| South. he should consider that his
share of the proceeds is out of pro.
portion with his share of labor and in
vcstmpnt But that is not all, he snoulG
feel that the big sum Of cotton money,
| the greater part of which goes To men
| who never plowcd iurrow, has cost
the southern youth his schooling, has
dwarfcd him in mind and in soul pow
or. Yes. our biggest crops often mean
ignorance: and ignorance means slav'
cry. This is the condition We are las
tcning upon our boys when We take
them from school TO do work on the
farm. No man who cstcems tho highest
interest OF his country or of his chil'
drcn can afford tn withdraw his boys
from gchool TO cultivate cotton crop,
! The farmer who does so does not put
his son on an equal footing in life with
other men. And such farmers must
! look to other mems sons for leadership
in all matters pertaining to individual
interest or To public welfare
W. II. CLIFTON.
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In firing upon mnamcd mobs the
| Cossacks ar, but cmulatnE the exam
pie OF Roicsycnshy in firms upon the
English dshing boats
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Minister Bowen has bcon a Sood tcl.
low ana a good rcnrcsontaDve OF tins
country an a most difficult post, and
now ne is TO be called home toI a