The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-05

cred .togethar with the previous dscis- ions on the subject. may perhaps in constitutional income tax law which shall substantially accomplish the re suits aimed at, The diliiculty of amerd- ing the Constitution Is so great that onIy real necessity can jusEfy resort thereto. Every effort should be inade in dealing with this subject. IS with the subject of the proper control by the national governinsnt over the use of corporate wealth in interstate bust ness, to devise legislation which with out such action phalf attain the dc- ultimately be no alternative to a con stiutional amendment
 Tech,ncal Training.
 It would be t.npossibie to overstate (though 1t Is of course difficult uuan titatively to measure) the effect upon a nation s growth to greatness Of whai may be called organized patriotism. tuition of a national feeling for mere local pride; with as resultant a high ambition for tae whole country No country can develop its tun strength the whole each put Q feeling of nIValty to the part above the feeling of loy- alty to the whole. This Is true Of The ana and ug classes must work together. capitalists and wageworkers must work together, if the best work of which the coun
 
 probable that a thoroughly efficieni system of education comes next to the Influence of patriotism in bringing about national success of this knd, Our federal form of government, sc fruitful of advantage to our people in certain ways, in other ways undnubt edl limits our national effectiveness. It Is not possible, for instance, for the national government to take the lead in technical industrial education. to see that the prblic school system techincal, industrial. scientific anc commercial sides. This must be left primarily to the several States. Never theless. the national. government has control of the schools of the District of Columbia, and 1t should see that these schools promote and encourage the fullest development of the schol. ars in both commercial and industrial should ia one of its branches deal~with foreign trade. The industrial tratninG is even more important It should be, one of our. prime objects as nation, so far as feasible, constantly to work toward putting the mec~$nic, the wage worker who works with his hands, or ward. so as to increase his effective- ness in the economic world, and the dignity, the remuneration, and th9 power of his position in thes social world. Unfortunately, at present the effect of some of the work in the pubs lie schools is in the exactly opposite direction. If boys and girls are trained merely in literary accomplishments, tO the total exclusion of Industrial, man. nal, and technical training, the ten- dency is to unfit them for inhustriai work and to make them reluctant n go into 1t, or unfitted to do well if they uo go into it. This is tendency which should be strenuously combatted Our industrial development dependh | largely upon techincal education, inc cIuding in this term all industrial edu4 cation, from that which fits man to be 8 good mechanic, good carpen . ter, or blacksmith, to that which Tits a man to do the greatest engineering feat The skilled mechanic, the skilled workman, can best become such by technical industrial education. The far reaching ussfuIessI use scSaoIs df mipes er of engineering, is now universally ac- knowledged, and no less far reaching Is the effect of a good building or mes ehanical trades school, textile or watchmaking, or engraving school. All such training must develop not onl! manual dexterity but industrial mteili' gence. In international riVaIry this t competition of pauper labor as much as it has to fear the educated labor OF specially trained competitors; ana ", should have the education of the hand eye and brain which twill fit us to meet such competition.k In every possible way we should ! help the wageworker Who tolis Wlth t
 
 a constantly increasing measure), also
 toll with his brain. Under the con stitution the national legislature can 1 do but little of direct importance TOT his welfare save where he is engagec 1 in work which permits it to act undeu 1.-the interstate commerce. clause of tht 1 oonstitution; and this is one re4sot why 1 so earnestly hope that both c;le legislative and judicial branches 0f tht government will copstrue this clause or the constitution in the broddest pos.
 ztb bT m hnW9WRT. such a matter as industrial training, ir such matter as child labor and fac- tory laws, set an example to the states by enactlng the most advanced iesls- lation that can. wisely be enacted fOa the District of Columbia.
 Agriculture.
 The only other persons whose wei fare is as vital to the welfare or tho whole country as Is the welfare Of the wageworkors are the tillers of the soil
 the farmers. It Is a mere truism to of wealth, no industrial development can atone for any falling off in tho character and standing of the farming population. During the last few de- with ever increasing clearness There is no longer any failure to realize thai farming, at least in certain branches. must become technical and scientific profession This means that there must be open to farmers the chance for techincal and scientific trPmlng, not theOreLlcal meFely put OI tHo HioSt severely practical type. The farDlel represents a peculiarly high type of American citizenship, and he must have the same chance to rise and develop as other American citizens have. More- over, it is exactly as true of the farm er as 1t Is of the business man and the wageworker. that the ultimate suceess of the nation of which ht forms a part must be founded not alone on material prosperity but upon high moral, mental and physical de- velopment. This education Of the farmer-self edIcation by preference, but also education from the LutsiGe, as with all other men--is peculiarly necessary here inS the United States, whers the frontier conditions even in the newest States have now nearly vanish ed, where there must be- a sub stitutiop of more intensive system of cultivation for the old wasteful farm management, and where there must ba a better business organization among the farmers themse selves
 Several factors must cooperate Tn the improvement of the farmers con- dition. He must have the chance to be educated in the widest possible sens in the sense which keeps ever in view the intimate relationship between 7gg7B7A !, E as q aszt5g#z#f# sf54& z es$# !