The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-05-26

and showed plainly by simple fIlustra-
tions how all taxes on the things people
need for consumtion are shifted on down
the line to the ultimate consumer, thus
causing a man to pay taxes according to
the size Of his family and not according
to the amount Of his property. and he
laid down the general rule that all taxes
upon things capable of indefinite repro
duction are shifted to the consumer and
that all taxes on things of fixed quantity
fall on the man who owns the property
at the time the tax is imposed. He said
this was the unanimous verdict of all
leading economists. He said the true
principle of taxation was to take from
every man according to the value OF the
special privileges which he possesses and
not according to his ability to pay TO
put taxes where they will stay put, and
can not be shifted, thus lifting the bur
den from labor and industry and placing
it upon monopoly. He said that no
matter how highly we may educate our
children, and no matter how perfect their
moral training il we turn them out into
world where the opportunity to make
living has been taken from them by an
unjust system OF taxation, they may be-
come criminals and we place them in a
position where they will not be able to
enjoy their share Of the privileges and
blessings which this great country Of
ours has for each Of it's citizens
Principal Miles Reed on Education
for Rural Schools.
Principal Miles Reed Of the Academy
of Idaho was the next speaker He ex-
pressed his pleasure at having the op-
portunity TO visit mining camp again
as his first experience in teaching was at
a similar place, Elk City. He was sur
prised and astonished at the excellence
OF the work displayed on the walls as he
had thought Owyhee county too much
isolated and having too few advantages
for up-to date school work.
He then began his subject, Education
for Rural Schools Education Of any
kind seeks to do two things First, it
must train for technical efficiency for
vocational work and it must train one to
love his vocation and enter upon his
work with pleased and hopeful spirit.
This is an age of specialized education
/ No longer do we confine our instruction
to those subjects alone which prepare
+ simply for literary career. Many
phases are represented in our state
! schools, such as law, medicine, engineer
t ing, agriculture, teaching, and nanua
training
D Why should this, more than ever, b,
! an age OF SPECIALIZED training? Because
the free wealth of tine country is largely
j occupied. No longer is it possible fo
/. ono to take up piece OF rich land anc
' begin an independent life with little o
! no capital. Less and less grow til,
o chances of the unframed and uneducateC
0 to successfully compete in the race 0
: life. Mining, too, requires closer compe
: ttion and more intelligent skill in it
methods. Ores which formerly wer
e thought to have too little value to pa,
r for handling, today can be successful,
n treated by new methods which are TIL
results OF study and skillful experiment
d ing.
II Farming must be intensified. Toda,
a modern farmers are utilizing Ian,
!. which only few years ago was though
# to be an irredeemable waste. Expert
q ments are being made which are reveal
IF ing nature's secrets, and it is the intel
|. ligent farmer, trained to the new meth
!. DDS, who will succeed in the future.
v Competition is becoming keene
+ among doctors, teachers, and those Q
q all professions in which technical edu
,e cation is required; and it is only thos
" who fall in line with the new educa
,r tional movement who can hope to SUE
n ceed in these particular lines.
l. Ofcourse, not every art can be taugh
,e in the rural schools. The greatest "
a can do here is to teach feeling an
a. love for technical education. We hay
"a great state of undeveloped resource
to and there is much to be done in NAL
A. ing these of use to us. We need, frs
is of all, the right kind of teachers,-
c. those in sympathy with their environ
D. ments. The teacher who wearies {
1r the sagebrush plains, who tires of II
d. lack of advantages, who sees no attra
IN tion in the country now about to
I'd made into homes, is not the one fC
DIT Idaho. They should be teachers WI
). nan nire the rirls the rinht Kind Of fee