Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1914-04-03

upon the other, and the best way of overcoming
this condition is to educate the whole people, when
you may depend upon it there will be a more equit-
able and just distribution of the pleasures and
Injuries of life. With universal higher education
there will be no drudgers or muckers. Each one
will be required to perform his or her just share
of the worlds work, which will not be burden
some when each one does his rightful portion and
no energy is fooshly wasted.
The idea of keeping one class of society in ig-
norance in order that they may be slaves for the
other class is rank plutocracy, and knowing the
democratic proclivities and sentiments of our con-
tributor surprised, indeed that he should
even hint at such necessity. Neither, in our
judgment, is it necessary to import ignorant and
in many cases vicious people from foreign coun-
tries to do our drudgery for us. The American
people are abundantly able to take care of their
own progress What necessary labor they hav-
emit the disposition to perform, their Yankee in
genuity may be relied upon to accomplish by the
use of machinery or otherwise
Generally speaking it is only through lack Of
facilities and equipment that drudgery is needed
at all. How many of the hard physical tasks
that constitute drudgery have been made unnec-
essary within the memory Of any mature reader
of The Record? We can nearly all recoect back
to the time when hay was moved with scythe
grain harvested with a cradle, threshing done
with fail, the ground spaded or at best turned
with walking pillow, water carried in pals for
all culinary purposes, and then the slops carried
out again in the same manner, washing performed
upon a board with the knuckes and thousand
other tasks performed in the most expensive Ito
time and energy) and laborious manner which
in the better appointed homes and lives have Civ
en- place for more profitable and congenial duties.
To be sure there is still physical labor to be per-
formed in the world, and always will be; which
| is for the good of our human bodies which re-
quire certain amount of exercise in order to re-
tain their grace beauty and usefulness, but there
need be no drudgery that refined or educated
person can possibly object to performing.
Just as long as there is an educated and an
ignorant class in society may expect to see dis
elimination and inequality in all things But
educated people are equipped to take care of them
selves in the unequal struggle for existence and
supremacy and when all the people are educated
there will be class to prey upon and the present
sssi- n its iust share Of
the worlds work and cease crowding it upon 9th.
ers less fortunate.
i With all the people educated labor will re.
eeive its just reward no matter what may be its
field of action, and the man who tlls the soil will
receive just as much as his equally educated and
cultured nelghbor who has chosen to follow pro
fession, for the law of supply and demand will
then govern, and as the professions become more
and more overcrowded their services will be in
less demand. After all, the farmers wheat and
corn and fruits are quite as much necessity as
the doctors medicine or the lawyers advice
| If any seriously doubt the disposition or ca
pacity of an educated person to do physical labor
we should like to call their attention to the strk
ing example of the former principal of the Branch
Normal School, who has accomplished more real
genuine farming in the past year than half doz-
en- of his farmer neighbors. His education en-
ables him to apply his labor with more intelli-
gence and better effect. True education should
make the farmer better farmer; the miner a
better miner; the mechanic better artisan, and
workers in any line better workmen.
| There is nothing about true education to
fear-ignorance is the obstacle in the way of pro-
gress, the author of the greater part of our woes
in the world today.