Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-10-31

WuO Will CdIl NC CuuCdlGus ~ bAlS
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 crying need.
One great fault with our modern
education is 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. 1t
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-
ton 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
vision to the office IN such manner as
to challenge the approval of has peo-
pie? Has he not loitered on has Job?
No man can make a great Governor
of this SPLENDID State with its east
territory, great commerce and t10o
and quarter million people and
habitually absent himself weeks at a
time from his post of duty. haze
knoavn no Governor in mig day 90ho
stained array from his office as much
as Coz. Hooper, Oh1te
sFBusily back and forth between,
The spider stretches his silvery
SCREEN"
from arm to arm of the GubermatorIaL
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 I'M
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 all
States to show q parallel to thls dp-
pointmuent IN tao particulars. FIRST,
the Governor giues as his reason for
him the thousands of dol
lars Sanders has spent for him or
his party. (And this a0hile Lorimer
and another Senator qOere being tried
in the Senate for bribery) And, sec
ondly, he aoas so impressed Nth has
oaOm folly IN the appointment that he
that Sanders 91Otttd not of
fer to succeed himself.
OF HooPER'S ADMINS
TRATION.
Fellow citizens, l charge that Gov.
Hooper's administration has been
ny IeChleSo pIouiSahIy |
that is il xcusable. 1t is no Won
der from lie slipshod way in which
business IS drifted under him that
he has been able to pay anything
on the re debt, and that he is the
first Gov Tor in this predicament for
six administrations He and l have
both been Governor, and both seek this
highly honorable position again.
COMPARISON BE-
TWEEN HIS ADMINISTR ION
AND MINE, AND AM w LING
TO STAND OR FALL b THE
SHOWING SUCH COMPARISON
WILL MAKE. I will show one year
in each administration, his
first year ending July 1, 1912, and
my first corresponding yearn>Ihe re-
ceipts under the first year Sd-
were $2,65A
disbursements, were $2,51f
IF this amount was paid m
million on Tennessee's inn
There was collected Y UNI
administration, in
ending July 1, 1912 Isl
Tharo was eYpended 7