Milford chronicle., 1905-06-02


n demagogue and their minds have been
,e- developed to do their own thinking.
le. A safe nation is not built upon the
ed autocracy of a throne. 1t is not an
e chored upon the rock Of a liberal con
ht stitution. It is dependent upon the in
g telligence and the wisdom of the peo-
Mt pie, the common people, who associate
IN themselves together with a govern
ie ment, be 1t monarchy, an oligarchy
a or a republic.
= Form Not Responsible.
J. Let me illustrate this idea from the
history Of some of our southern repub-
lies. used to think that the form OF
. the United States government was the
cause of most Of our national prosper
ity. That is not true. As / turn to
> these republics Of South America find
that most Of them were patterned aft
er our own constitution. What is the
result? A noted English writer de-
clares that, though there have been
within late years $50 different in
stances Of constitutional government /
started, most Of them have been dead |
failures In the Bolivian republic alone /
out Of fourteen consecutive presidents
thirteen have either been assassinated
or have died in exile. The history Of
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 authorl-
ties, governmental convulslOn after
cOnvulsion. revolution after revolution
and upheaval after upheaval What is
the cause OF all this? 1t is not due to
the form Of the South American repub- !
lies, but to the ignorance of the South ]
American people. The reason the !
American ballot box for the last hun s
dred years has stood as solid as Plym- 8
Outh rock is due largely to the fact that d
it Is handed to the American boys over
the schoOlhouse desk. We have t
strong republic today because we have t
strong intelligent, individual voters. I
Has any government offered greater a
educational facilities than ours? No p
sooner did the Puritan settle in old Il
New England than he Immediately be- NJ
gan to erect his Institutions Of learning. ei
The pilgrim fathers landed in Plymouth it
In 1920 yet only sixteen years later or
in 1896, we find that Harvard college Cl
was founded in Cambridge on the out 70
skirts Of Boston. We find the Dutch pc
md the English settlers drifting down Ia
ntO Connecticut, and what happened? III
There Yale college is started in 17O1 it,
It Saybrook. We go south, and what ac
10 we find? Pennsylvania and all the tic
middle states honeyeOmbed with col pa
ages and academies. WegD west, and dis
here institutions Of learning are scat wa
cred everywhere The schOOiroom desk Jes
seen at almost every crOssroad, and tin
ne college is intrenched in nearly for
very town. Ah, yes, the modern Ma OF
oleon would have hard work here, An
start an international conflict just sue
IT fun or to crafty his ambitions. at
.e would have hard work to, upset not
5 financially. socially or politically. tur
'hyF Because the people of this age spe
our beloved land have too much in mel
lligenee to follow such a leader .as the s.
little Corsican." wal
Liberty and Education. the
What is the practical application Of ena
is thought? Chief among the endur- tion
guaHntees Of future peace is the. hell
essence Of our schools and school tion
tshers in foreign lands. Too much war
ney cannot be expended upon our befC
bic school system. Porto Rico and schC
; Philippines VIII never be truly con- ers
cred for America until American, and
rools have educated those colonists as L
i taught them to realize the mean God
Of American liberty. That was a Gan
y wise move Of the United States theiI
which a few years ago, also
Iught the Cuban schOolteachers nm. pray
the classic walls of old Harvard peac
berts' college in COnstantinople and to IL
Presbyterian schools at Beirut are so a
two wedges which shall overthrow Jesu
brutalities Of the Turkish empire, fortI
ma, through the influence Of our. Chri,
sionary schools, shall yet become n teacI
ahte nation sworn to perpetual perp,
ce and to forever avert the horrors Ma
another Boxer uprising. And that ING 7
government OF kussia, made up to he
ll'luy mixed peoples and heteroge- to le;
US natiohahties' speaking as many who's
eIent !, tongues as did the workmen earth
he tower Of Babel, shall vet beeone r-
through the missions Of peace. Oh.
friends, we cannot honor too much
public schoOlteachers and the pro-
ors of our colleges as among the - -
.bing nc +to+ - Hels ., VINO are entih,
nd here let me state another fact. -
not only honor the teachers and ,',1-' .o.ee
fessors who have given to rs our tS lI'se
cation, but we also honor men like 80
*. Pearson, who with their money N-s'',J '.
e made it possible for this same 1ue9. y
of teachers to carry that educa- -. -
to some who would never be able s'''o'
set it but for their benefeence. 1 = d
'ider d. X. Pearson one Of the ~. So ~,
t practical and far reaching phflan- -" :
pists Of this age. He does not take ,I' ai's
money and pile it up in some great sea lou
university while the young people 80. 80.
md an education in many other !st,. -
OILS near at hand but he gives here p,a,n.. 49,