French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02

could know throughout the nation
just how many lawyers are in COM
gress today, drawing nearly $4,000
per annum mileage, secreta-
ries' salaries, and other prerequisites
that were not earning at home what
their congressional secretary's salary
is; filling seats in congress, with hard
ly even a superficial knowledge of the
industrial and possible resources of
their district, with little or no knoWL
edge about the requisite character of
legislation required to develop those
resources to add wealth to the dis
trict and give employment to labor,
and capital. So it would seem that it
is about time business men be sent
to congress. Many lawyers want to
go to congress simply to increasectheir
practice, by charging the aequain-
tance they there make.
There has come up presidents of the
nation who have driven canal boats;
who split rails by the moonlight TO
get moneyato procure an education.
There are today contracting strRc-
turaI builders, railroad and highway
builders, and men pulling the throttle
of railroad engines and steamship en-
gines, and men collecting tickets on
ships and trains, carrying millions of
lives daily for which they are respon-
sible. There are great mining and In
dustriA engineers that have a deeper
conception of human integrity, hn-
man Uplift, and better qualified 10
write laws for the uplift and the pro-
lection Of human life and property,
than 90 per cent of the men sent 10
the legislatures and TO congress-
Great book Learning without ability
to apply it is,7evidenee OF wasted cap
ital, and q burden 10 tha little brains
overloaded with Il
There is nothing on earth that is .
more valuable Rssetrtoa practical set
OF brains than . practical education
for man or woman. sas
There is not a great leader scarcely
in this nation of industrial upbuild
that has accumulated millions byrhis
own effort, that did not come Hp from
a time in his life in which he learned
the lesson of physical efforts, and men
tai efforts and mental denials.g These
are the prices of honest, financial,
business success. ~. u,
Children brought up in laxury, edu-
Gated in luxury, and left with vast
fortune seldom ever rise above selfish
content; and generally have the 10
ton that they are superior 20
children that work for liberalization,
and toll for their daily bread The
novel, '"tthe children of the second
generation is healthy reading for
children of this kind.
Many sets of cheap inefficient brains
because of heir daddies' money r
forced on the people as lawmakers,
yet it is laudible for every man to
labor for a high position, and to be-
come self-sustaining and Independent.
It isn't that the average lawyers
are not brainy men. They are gener-
ally of a high character of intelligence,
legally speaking. But if they r
lawyers of creditable practice like the
doctor; like the minister, they have
but little time to devote to the study
of things outside of what will keep
them best prepared to defend their
clients in court.
This is the age of progress; the age
of the segregation of business; segre-
cation of professional calling; segre-
CATION of trades; just as there is Sc
gregation in the mechanical world in
order to secure better efficiency, and
a more perfect comprehension of eco
nomic development of resources and
industrials is the growing rule Of the
day.
A man who wishes to become a ma
tional law-maker for the development
Of resources, a-nd-successful upbuild of
industrial business under possible ma
tional laws, has to study those -
sourcesy and learn the EneOf law they
need to develop them. to be Of any