Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06

by one majority. It Is the law Of the
land and Of course is accepted as such
and loyalty obeyed by all good citizens.
Nevertheless the hesitation evidently
felt by the court as whole in COM
ing to conclusion when considered to-
gether with the previous decisions on
the subject may perhaps indicate the
possibility of devising constitutional
income tax law which shall substan-
tally accomplish the results aimed at.
The difficulty of amending the consti-
tuition Is so great that only real neces-
sity can Justify a resort thereto. Every
effort should be made in dealing with
this subject, us 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.
1t would be impossible to overstate,
though 1T is of course difficult quantita-
lively to measure, the effect upon 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,
i with as resultant 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 a feeling of loyalty to the part
above the feeling of loyalty to the
whole. This is true Of sections, and it
is 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. 1t is probable
that thoroughly efficient system of
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 adj
i vantage 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 education,
to see that the public school system of
this country develops on all its 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 1t should see that these
schools promote and encourage the
fullest development Of the scholars in
both commercial and Industrial train.
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 q
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.
tunately, 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 literary
accomplishments to the total exclusion
of Industrial manual and technical
training the tendency is to unfit them
for industrial work and to make them
reluctant to go into it or untitled to dc
well If they do go into it. This is q
tendency which should be strenuously
combated. Our Industrial develop
ment depends largely upon technical
education, including in this term all
Industrial education, from that which
fits a man to be good mechanic, a
good carpenter or blacksmith, to that
which fits man to do the greatest en-.
/ cheering feat. The skilled mechanic
4 the skilled workman, can best, become
such by technical industrial education
The far reaching usefulness of insti.
flutes Of technology and schools OF
mines or of engineering is now uni
versally acknowledged, and no less
far reaching is the effect Of a good
building or mechanical trades school, a
4 textile or matchmaking or engraving
school. All such training must develop
not only manual dexterity, but indus
4 trial intelligence. In International RI
valry this country does not have to
fear the competition Of pauper labor as
much as it has to fear the educated
labor of specially trained competitors
and we should have the education OF
the hand, eye and brain which will I'll
us to meet such competition.
In every possible way we should helr
i the wageworker who tolls with his
hands and who must-we hope In q
i 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
save where he is engaged in work
which permits it to act under the in.
\ terstate commerce clause Of the con.
/ stitution, and this is one reason why