Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-08

ULYSSES. Inc INDUSTRIAL II dBFlCul-
tural classes must work together,
capitalists and wageworkers must
work together, if the best work of
which the country is capable is to
be done. 1t is probable that a thor
oughly efficient system of education
comes next to the influence of pat
riotism in bringing about national
success of this kind. Our federal
form of government so fruitful of
advantage to our people in certain
ways, in other ways undoubtedly
limits our national effectiveness. 1t
is not possible, for instance, for the
National Government to take the
lead in technical industrial educa-
ton, to see that the public school
system of this country develops on
all its technical, industrial, scientific
and commercial sides. This must be
left primarily to the several States.
Nevertheless, the National Govern
ment has control of the schools OF
the District of Columbia, and it
should see that these schools pro-
mote and encourage the fullest de-
velopment of the scholars in both
commercial and industrial training.
The commercial training should in
one of its branches deal with for
eign trade. The industrial training
is even more important. 1t should
be one of our prime objects as a
Nation, so far as feasible, constantly
to work toward putting the mechan-
ic, the wageworker who works with
his hands, on a higher plane of efic-
iency and reward, so as to increase
his effectiveness in the economic
world, and the dignity, the remuner-
alton, and the power of his position
in the social world. Unfortunately,
at present the effect of some of the
work in the public schools is in the
exactly opposite direction. If boys
and girls are trained merely in liz.
erary accomplishments, to the total
exclusion of Industrial, manual, and
technical training, the tendency Il
to unfit them for industrial work
and to make them reluctant to &c
into it or untitled to do we'll If they
do go into it. This is a tendency
that should be strenuously combated
Our industrial development depend;
largely upon technical education, in.
Guiding in this term all industrla
education, from that which fits {
man to be a good mechanic, a gooC
carpenter, or blacksmith, to tina
which fits a man to do the creates
engineering feat. The skilled ME
chanic, the skilled workman, car
best become such by technical indus
trial education. The fa%r-reachins
usefulness of Institutes of technol
ogy and schools of mines or OF engi
neering, is nov universally acknowi
edged, and no less fa%r-reaching !
the effect of a good building OF me
chanical trades school, a textile, o
matchmaking, or engraving school
All such training must develop No
only manual dexterity but industrial
intelligence. In international rival
ry this country does not have to fea
the competition OF pauper labor a
much as ii has to fear the educate.
labor of specially trained competit
ors; and we should have the eduea
ton of the hand. eye, and braiI
which will fit us to meet such com
petition.
In every possible way we Shout
help a e wageworker who tolls V
his hands and who must 1--WE hop
in a constantly increasing measure
also toll with his brain. Under tn
Constitution the National Legisla
ture can do but little or direct in
portance for his welfare save wher
he is engaged in work which permit
it to act under the interstate con
merce clause of the Constitution
and this is one reason why so eal
nestly hope that both the legislativ
and judicial branches of the Govern
n,ent will construe this clause o. th
Constitution in the broadcast pos5
BILE manner We can, however, i
such a matter as industrial training
in such a matter as child labor an
factory laws, set an example to tn
States by enacting the most advan'
ed legislation that can wisely be er
acted for the District of Columbia.
Agriculture.
The only other persons whose We
fare IS as vital to the welfare of th
Whole country as is the welfare {
the wagewarkers r the tillefs {
the sell, the farmers. 1t is Il meI
truism to say that no growth OF ci
les. no growth of wealth, no in1u.
trial dcy elopment can atone Tor al