The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29

ture or America, in large part, depends
 pSa she rshs soyalsa nes. Os ss srs aBe to solve it. we shall see sooner or later In fhis country, Dr.. Strong tells us,
 an American peasantry; iEnor,snt rant, anq az citizenship, but utterly incapable ,of comprehanding or exercising Its du- t.es. If VIC arc able to build up a described, that shall dot this vast ter ritorv all uycr wfIh 100000 eenters of likht and EeerBihg, we shall do the 6y anN peonle in % a,,v .as age s' of tne world. and We shall yet find it easy to do this and more. First of all, however, we must build millions of good country things will follow. Life in the county will never be tolerable, so long as the country roads are all but tf1passabie fop six months in the year: IT only we had good roads, we could easily consolidate four or five or more struE- gling district schools into one strong. vigorous consolidated institutions. IT we had good roads our country boys and men teachers could go to school on bicycles and our country girls and wo- men Ssaenss cogld Ss wnseied thtafr abirfy miles an hour. Then could we have In the country sociHi life, and clubs. and debating societies. and reading rooms, all other things that make life profit able and enjoyable.
 Every city boy ought to have the privilege of attending such country school for at least a year or two; ev- cry country boy ought to have the privilege of attending a good city Hay may come when plans for such ex
 change between the pupils Of city schools and cepntry schools may be ef-
 Hiph school EdueatIon.
 Not only should it be the ideal of the American people to put good high school education within reach Of every child but sooner or later to eS- tabIish in each Congressional District, d higher institution of learning core spending 10 the German gymnasium or to the pupils of every rural school in the State. Congressman Livingstone, of Georgia. the late papers tell us. IS to the establishment of just such insti- tuttors, to be supported in part by an annual national appropriation of xlO.- Sse to S each .sS sh99a a te Ls us ef snrSa
 the State Of Den Hill, and Alex Stevens and Henry w. Grady, that she has within her borders a statesman of real
 "Crowning the whole State system there should be a great State Untver- sitys and erowning the whole American al university, the greatest center of light and learning the world has ever known. George Washington labored TOT thS eSlap4isfIhSNt oA SuSh ah 'e1SA
 With considerable emphasis. pr. Craighead said that the story of the defeat of washington's immense, far most disgraceful chapter in the history of American education. With equal truth # may De said that the story or plans for Virginia forms q lamentable chapter in the history of edacatlon in the Old Dominion. Jefferson. indeed, sity, .but6Ae failed to secure for Vir- ginia q great State system of schools.
 A Project fox Rich Men.
 Tt would be possible for fifty Of the richest Amevicahs, lmbued with the genius and generosity of Andrew Car negie. to make this dream of mine al reality said pr: SraisEneso; sdr ss one dag,n msn can city or village to have good lib- rary, Forty-seevn of the richest Amer jeans could speedily give good library described. in each of the forty-seven States Of the Union.
 "One man has made it possible for professors in more than two hundred to have a retiring allow ance Forty-seyen of the richest Ameri- l cans could make 1t possible for the pub- | seven states of the Union to receiveI retiring allowances. The forty seven richest Americans could build good wa gon roads in each ot the forty-seveh tablished at Washington a foundation for research upon q ten million dollar | endowmenL The fifty richest Americans | could easily establish at Washington | 2 great, National University ana make 1 1t the ErNAtest center of light and he gSria dys aas eSsE oxford noT sity ten million dollars for scholar ships thus enabling his Alma Mater to | maintain 800 of the choicest students of the Anglo-Saxon world. The fifty 1 richest Americans could establish thous- l ands of scholarships, making it possi- | ble for the poor but talented boys and est intellectual development, VIII they | do 1t? Shall we fold our hands, relying upon the hope of such generosity? Not for a single day. For what Is this gov | ernment established? For the benefit 1 of multimlllionalres? To enable a few men to pile up colloBsal fortunes, to gather into their own hands power by any monarch of England?
 Economic system Wrong.
 There is something wrong in any that enables one thousand of it's richest inhabitants to own and con~ trol more wealth thah the eighty mill lion people who constitute the American nation. The people feel and know there bIindly to right that wrong. We must destroy competition and put in it's stead cooperation and brotherhood. exclaim the Socialists and they mean well. Co., operation and brotherhood is con summation dev0utly to be wished. but State socialism. if established. would rivet upon us intolerable tyranny and of man. Men who have the talent and the genius to inaugurate great Conl-