New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
MR. REDS ADDRESS.
1The Practical Side of American Education
John Bright and the Civil War"


John Bright and the Civil War"
rna work YOU are inaugurating to-day looks
:. once backwards and forwards-it blends
GRATEFUL appreciation for the past with the best
,r3efon in your power for the future.
Nv q happy thought you have converted y0ur
,,onoorial for a great public servant into
,n,serv for efficiency and good citizenship in
q. rising generations. In consequence, name
which has heretofore stood only for brilliant
snd useful public career long since ended VIII
.,snd henceforth throughout this beautiful and
h,stor,c Welsh country for an open door also
40 all in whom you can awaken the ambition
and develop the ability TO initiate or even to
emulate that career: and John Bright will be
,boupht Of in this region which he loved not
merely for the work he did for generation that
g gone but as an ever present, ever active IN
s,srat,on to those who are coming forward from
your younger ranks 20 solve the new problems
Of a new time If only you can teach them here
IL this ~Jofin Bright School, to approach these
new problems with the old honesty, the old con-
science, and the old courage that have made the
name memorable in your national annals then
are you, within your sphere, and TO the limits
of your influence in very deed taking bond of
fate
country-another but not alien country. az
yoU, SIR, have kindly indicated-to venture on
disputed points concerning your public men,
But, go far as I have ever heard. there is no
dispute among friends or foes about the char
acter Of John Bright In fact, a remark once
addressed TO one Of his colleagues always seems
thought admirably fitted TO Mr. Bright himself:
I'VE believe IN no mans infallibiIity, brt it is
festful TO be sure Of one mans integrity" What
better guarantee you get for your cort-
nunity or for your country than youth trained
up in that spirit and under the stimulus of such
an example?
II is right that you should cherish his name
10 Llandudno. In HIS lifetime this was one Of
MS faVorite resorts. and he was one OF your
faForite visitors Here he came for recreation
and for quiet, familiar intercourse with his
nearest friends, like the Cobdens. Here. too he
came when broken in health, after the storm
ara stress Of public Efe as in 1853, and again
IN 1910 Here again, he came to show his In
terest and take part in your local affairs, as,
nr example when he paid you visit in order
&c lay the cornerstone for an important ee-
snentary school
Il Is right that the memorial OF your great
visitor, which you have so long had in contem-
eiauon' should finally take the form OF a school
Hr tne wider development among you Of the
fecondary education which he favored. He was
not as you will remember. an unreserved advo-
: Gaze OF compulsory education, or of exclusively
ela'e-paid education; but he was an earnest and
constant supporter OF education for all, on in
oiVioual lines. undenominational lines-on what
might almost venture before this friendly
booienee TO call American lines.
II Is peculiarly right then that your memorial
sn'uid now be planned IN considerable conform
" win his own views as 10 the educational
"e"'s IN a country like this Of the serious
,.uustrlaI ), and commercial classes; right tina.
otouih look 10 the practical side Of life which
e'ese Gays presses more and more upon all
~ ana 70 preparation for commercial and
.1uS1Hal pursuits quite as much as IN a nren-
.a''oh for the Universities Students fro,,
S.iS school viii doubt make their v,av ,,,,tb
eye on the professions, to the new y,ya,sb
Hese' OF which the King so lately laid the
,4sistone' or, farther a1eld, to other and
"nshtutions OF the higher learning Rut
7SS useful in their sphere for the COM
c.es.'S "ihch This school serves and not less
s.,s- - me school itself, win be those other
s,a "il"'h II turns towards the scientific
tratr,r ioBicai' as well the commercial
mod "i'h'ut which. the competition Of
vo. INDUSTRIAL life must leave the mass Of
M S0-''s men IN The background. even
T. Ne' and still more abroad
= mas been intimated that q ,,o,,1d 10 ,ouoo
~. , ~ uiis occasion TO have some reference TO
ten - t,ins a. OF our American educational sys-
eg,ss, ~ ms practical side But It has also been
from a. u'1' you shall not be longer detained
H. Hio remaining business Of the afternoon
frra' words OF mine for over fen rninutesi
.be ~ lhese circumstances. like the heroine IN
But - -. 90 perceive here a divided duty
strne a.. s you not to be alarmed shall con-
Lei =. mar duty literally on the side of mercy,
the rr.o,'a, sl,ioh only two three points about
Arner1o.. '.'''al turn given a good deal Of our
VIII e,''ah education since the civil war 70
noroe,., &c 'hnk' we can largely trace our phe-
wo ~, material progress since that date
s,r.', all not lose sight, hope. even under the
haze - 'ial crisis any more than you ever
ulf,e,.'. 'ost sight. of the great truth that the
,'hate object OF tie best educat,oa :. aad
'sf must be. not SO much to teach facts or