Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-02-24

migration has begun to results which haa in
vara brought pass and all aude where has taken
place of the causes which operated TO
accomplish the decline fall of the Roman Empire
consequences which always flow from the depopua
ton of the rural ovepopulaon of the towns the
ruin and ua disappearance middle classes by the accumua
great wealth hands of few and the coming OF great
want into the homes many condition society the
tendency for give themselves onscencess luxury
evengeul resentment and revolution
fragment middle class which for time remain be-
restless because they find themselves unable
keep indulgence themore opule class which
daily displayed their their souls they begin to wish
indulge the les which they profess to depse Such was
the case in Rome Uhhorn his admirable work
titled The Conflict of Christianity Heathensm has this
PASSAGE Wealth not merely hazardous to the nd
dangerous nation, douby dangerous when IL
suddenly Rome and has not been gradually acquired
las In Dome resulted in the ruin of the mid
class colossal wealth in the hands of few
the and finally in unesaned luxury
and youptuousness Antiquity knowledge of middle
class such acquainted with for bou the basis
sound middle class not regarded as honorable but as dis
grace deemed right to dspe whose employment
themselves their friends and to the
state According Aristotle all forms of abour which required
physical strength degrading freedman Such doctrines
fields and the IDEAS
throughout the United States producing the
same they did in the world
great fault of much modern education both
pupils (and otmes the teachers regard Of
getting living without work Itw my misfortune to have to
have speaker educational meeting
public schools bng his argument the
education children will be hewers of wood
and drawers of WATER be and water
be drawn why should educated hew and draw if
his handsG This urban drift will not be arrested
until this education stopped which in both the
teaches that honorable to live
by wits than by ones hands.
longer explain the aton from the country to
the by that country life isolated and dull and
telephone delivery
books papers, such things make the life of the farm
interesting than farming before Some Of
intellectual and happy Georgia today living
pospeng by their toll They read than do the
what important than reading they
They and appreciate great
political better than do urban huying
scrryng pursuit pennies in the day and pleasures
Others who have dstse for work and
get quick who abide the country; they
vsng pretex for moving oown and getting situation
they get situation indeed situation of restricted
of enormously high prices The
meagre and which they have acquired frequently
the of their folly.
much affected with the spirit of selfin
with the spirit of self sacrifice
getting hewing of the wood
and drawing part And it strange that
type education when for than genereon
we have policy secuarzng education The only
liable source in ah when
have reared generation you be surprised find
escape everything
everything agreeable education
religious in education
nothing the educated And be remembered
educational institution well the school and
college
mammonsm and mammonism begets every
form of evil and strife and distress.