Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-10-09


cause of education and the interest Of /
our schools / unhesitatingly pledge |
myself. While l was Governor
recommended to the Legislature the
establishment and equipment of a
splendid school Of technology. be-
lieve yet that it is a crying need.
One great fault with our modern
education is a lack Of industrial train
ing. We do not give enough atten-
ton to that kind of education which
enables the student to turn his hand
to the work Of the world the day he
leaves college Mere Frightening of
the mind is not sufficient. Greek,
Latin and modern foreign languages
are not sufficient. That is the best
education which is the most practical.
While industrial education is in some
of our schools, it is not in enough of
them. Education is, or should be,
three-fold, viz: Education of the
hand, of the heart and the head. I'll
ought TO be so perfect that all of
these are taken into consideration
when we undertake to turn out COM
pletely educated man or woman. Work
is the lot Of man by divine decree.
When God said that "by the sweat
of our faces we should eat bread" he
not only made labor honorable, but
made Incidence reprehensible.
We should prepare to work to
greater advantage The great ambi-
tion and struggle of our State and of
the South should be to become more
and more self-sustaining every year.
In the South alone we have created in
our brief history enough wealth to en-
rich empires, but we have not pro-
duced as much of what we consume as
we should. We should stop going from
home for our supplies. We must
cease paying two commissions and
two transportations to have our cat
tie, hogs and sheep slaughtered.
When we take our corn cribs out of
Kansas, our smoke houses out of Chi
cago and our factories out Of Lowell
we will flourish as the green bay tree.
Then, and then only, will our loved
land regain that empire of wealth
and power which belongs to it by ma
ture. | pray the day may come soon
that our people will understand the
Importance of this and educate their
sons and daughters accordingly.
POST OF DUTY.
Has Coz. Hooper stood at his post
of duty and giUen has personal super
visioR to the office IN such manner as
to challenge the approval of has peo-
ple? Has he not loiteTed on has job?
No man can make a great Governor
of this splendid State With its east
territory, great commerce and tlOo
and quarter million people and
habituaIly absent himself 1Ueeks at q
time from his post of duty. / haze
knOaUn no Governor IN nly day aOho
staged away from has office as much
as Coz. Hooper, 1Ohile
"Busily back and forth between,
The spider stretches his silvery
SCREEN"
from arm to arm of the GlcbernatorjGt
chair.
Sometimes he wandered in the wilds
of Texas, sometimes in the arid plains
of Oklahoma, sometimes in progress
sive Birmingham, sometimes he took
to the tall timber of the tall noun
tains and sometimes to the peniten-
tiary. | believe it was from the SOM
Der walls of the penitentiary that the
glorious news was waited to an lm-
\ patient world that a new statesman
was born-that that perfect specimen
of political pulchritude, Newell San
ders, was appointed to the seat once
occupied by Andrew Jackson in the
United States Senate Glorious for
Sanders, but tough on Tennessee and
Jackson. challenge all history OF oil
States to shoq0 a parallel to this APP
pointment IN taUo particulars. First,
the Governor giUes as has reason for
amounting him the thousands of dol
lars Sanders has spent for him or
his party. (Amd this sOhile Lortn!er
and another Senator aCere being tried
IN the Senate for BRIBERY And, sec
o1,dLy, he aUds so impressed 9Oith has
osOn foIty IN the appointment that he
) promised that Sanders gOoHtd not Of
; fer to succeed himself.
PRoDIGALITY OF HoOPER's ADMINS
TRATIoN.
Fellow citizens, / charge that Gov
Hooper's administration has been
: characterized by reckless prodigality
, that is inexcusable. 1t is no won
der from the slipshod way in which
business has drifted under him that
he has not been able to pay anything
on the State debt, and that he is the
: first Governor in this predicament fol
{ six administrations. He and l have
both been Governor, and both seek this
+. highly honorable position again.
5 CHALLENGE COMPARISON BE
: TWEEN HIS ADMINISTRATION
e AND MINE, AND AM WILLING
5 TO STAND OR FALL BY THE
e SHOWING SUCH COMPARISON
e WILL MAKE. I will show one veal
: complete in each administration, hi
, first year ending July l, 1912, anc
{ my first corresponding year. The re
ceipts under the first year of my ad
ministration were $2,651 $500; the
disbursements were 1851, 379.56. Gu
r of this amount was paid nearly a hall
$ million on Tennessee's Indebtedness
r There was collected under Gov
h Hooper's administration, in the yea
e ending July l, 1912, $4,264, 488.89
n There was expended by his admins
s tration in the same time 1858, 1898
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