Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-12-04

effort should be made Iii dealing with.
this subject. as with the subject of the
proper control by the national govern.
ment over the use of corporate wealth
In interstate business. to devise legis-
lation which without such action shall
attain the desired end. but If this fails
there will ultimately be no alterna-
tive to constitutional amendment.
Technical and Industrial Training.
It would be impossible to overstate.
though 1t Is of course difficult quantita-
lively to measure, the effect upon a ma
tons growth to greatness of what may
be called organized patriotism, which
necessarily includes the substitution of
a national feeling for mere local pride.
! with as a resultant q high ambition for
the whole country. No country can de-
| velop its full strength so long as the
parts which make up the whole each
| put feeling Of loyalty to the part
above the feeling Of loyalty to the
whole. This is true Of sections, and it
lS just as true Of classes. The indus
| trial and agricultural classes must
work together, capitalists and wage
workers must work together, If the
| best work of which the country is ca
pable is to be done. It is probable
that a thoroughly efficient system of
i education comes next to the influence
Of patriotism in bringing about nation
al success Of this kind. Our federal
form of government, SO fruitful of ad.
/ vantage to our people In certain ways.
In other ways undoubtedly limits our
national effectiveness.
It is not possible, for instance, for
the national government to take the
4 lead in technical Industrial education,
4 to see that the public school system Of
this country develops on all it's tech
meal, Industrial, scientific and COM
mercial sides. This must be left, pri-
marily to the several states. Never
theless the national government. has
control of the schools of the District of
Columbia, and it should see that these
schools. promote and encourage the
fullest development of the scholars in
both commercial and industrial train
4 Ing. The commercial training should
| IN one of it's branches deal with foreign
trade The industrial training is even
more important. 1t should be one Of
our prime objects as nation, so far
as feasible, constantly to work toward
putting the mechanic, the wagework-
er who works with his hands, on a
i higher plane of efficiency and reward,
SO as to-; increase his effectiveness in
! the economic world and the dignity,
the remuneration and the power Of his
position In the social world. Unfor-
1 tunateiy, at present the effect of some
OF the work in the public schools is in
4 the exactly opposite direction. If boys
i and girls are trained merely In literary
-l--apaea.nnli shments to the total exclusion
at ior austria work and f0 make the
1t ilIctant to go into it or united "a
,e well Is they do go into it. This Is
AZ tendency which should be strenuous
it com5ated Our Industrial deyelo
81 Sin Nerl1 depends largely upon technic
Il educa ton. including In this term a
I-sf NY tls trlal educa ton, from that whic
o HIS IT'S g man to be a good mechanic
GOOD carpenter or blacksmith. to til,
q Wnieh hts q man to do the greatest er
giLneerlng feat. The skilled M ,chani,
me skilled y He'd workman. can best becom
It su's1 By technical Industrial edueatio,
e Ihe far reaching usefulness of inst
states OF technology and schools.
..SEI mines Mn or Of engineering Is now uni
Yersaily acknowledge and no les
Iar reaching is the effect of goo,
4 SDuilding or mechanical trades school,
: lexIlie or matchmaking or engrayin.
school All such training must deyelo1
not only only manual dexterity. but indus
:! trial intelligence In international ri
Il VARY this country does not have tt
+ rear the competition Of pauper labor as
mnch as 1t has to fear the educated
Z ia Dor of specially trained competitors
= ana Irlt we should have the education of
me til hand, eve and brain which will fit
us to meet such competition. n
4 IN every possible way we should help
the WageWorker who tolls with his
Y nands and who must-we hope in a
4 constantly increasing measure--also toll
With his brain. Under the constitution
the national legislature can do but lit
! tie OF direct Importance for his welfare
i save where he Isl engaged in work
\ which permits it to act under the in
i ferstate commerce clause of the CON
stitutlon, and this is one reason why
20 earnestly hope that both the leg
/ isla tive and judicial branches of the
government viii construe this clause
OF the cons itution in the broadcast pos
/ sible manner. We can, however, in.
such q matter as Industrial training, In
such al matter as child labor and fac
(! Iory laws. set an example to the states
py enacting the most advanced Iegis-
iation that can wisely be enacted for
the District Of Columbia IS
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