The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-26

when it Denies VI Working WA the
soII-ATt MN Preparing aa for Aarol-
ution.
TO the Editor;
Baltimore Is just arranging to send
some $500 Migrants tO thA MOnAa 0h
Correction because they won't work,
ana Carroll county II just arranging
To send to Jail father or his son
because the latter has worked az
rood. honest, very important work
Tranps and Migrants were things Nn-
known tO our fOrefatherS before thG
DAYS of compulsory education, a.
Richard Grant White showed in the
North American Review of December,
1880. under the heading The Public
school Failure Idle and imbacile
men are multiplying just in proper
ton ~ compulsory education ls e.
tended
l observed in my last letter, which
YOU periodically published, that
dropped y fighting against cOmpul-
sorry laws At tha laSt session of our
Legislature, will tell you IT, reason
it was because saw. things had
run to such pass that chaos and
revolution were looming up and It
Wa too late I'M tine day to dO any
thing further In the two years that
are passing WI See the greatest com
pulsory education country in the
world Germany stimulating the bat
Ting of the world in blood. The
working people OF this country, who
ara seeing their Liberties taken from
them one after another, are Tipe for
revolution.
| opposed war and revolution both,
but | must tell the facts. A man who
writes for all the Baltimore papers
wrote me privately Thu other day
that he knew 0f 1900 men irH Balti-
more who were armed with rides,
ready to avail Of any outbreaks. This
is pretty showing in a city that has
boosted that with compulsory educa-
ton all would b. well One Of Balti-
m0refs leading lawyers, James J-
Lindsay, had "A letter in the Balti-
more Sun predicting revolution. Thus
we see to what our boosted education
has brought US.
And now learn that the son OF N.
Warren Strevig haS been tried and
found guilty Of working The work
liz did was narrowing, seeding,
thrashing, husking corn and working
among potatoes-just the work, that,
above all others, il calculated to- keep
impending famine from our country
And AID there prospect Of famine
Well, the other day leading New
England paper, the New Bedford Ev-
ening Standard, gave an editorial,
headed, The Famine Menace" and it
lot the idea from our own Baltimore
Manufacturers Record. Both papers
stated people must get back tO the
land and raise things, and that very
quickly.
say it is a crime before men and
"a Hin before God TO arrest in this
crisis any man, woman or child for
working, and especially at that most
noble, most useful and most health
full occupation Of mai" agriculture.
So far as l have heard this compul-
sorry education law j. dead letter
law in most of the 23 counties Of tn
State. Of course, may not ~ fully
informed, but 10 far a. have heard
Carroll county is the only one trying
to enforce the law. / have heard. of
one locality in which 70 farmers
sons refused To stop fall work and 10
Ny to school, and not one arrest was
made A
The county school superintendent,
with the State heads, have been dis
GUESSING the opposition to the law and
have asked how best to meet III, but
they are not meeting iii at all- They
are all supposed TO b. men of the
highest intelligence yet they are COM
pletely mum when they see letters in
the leading papers of the State from
farmers and others in opposition tc
thu law. They know tn law does
not represent public opinion and they
fear to publicly antagonize that
n opinion. Every law that intimately
concerns the industrial should have 9
vote taken upon it. Even 20 formid-
able in array a. there was in opposi-
tion to liquor, found itself annihilr
ated when confronted by the popular
vOte-and compulsory education
would have met a much better de-
served waterloo had it been voted on
The fight between education and
farm tillage was shown up some years
aEo by friend of mine named George
Quarrie 1t was in reply to the So
cialist, Edwin Markham, who wrote
THE Man With the Hoe" Here it is:
THE MAN WITHOUT THE HOE
Not vt full ait TIM food that human
tide,
Drawn from the field to swell tht
cities pride
Gods honest, faithful field. thus twice
despoiled,
Of men, but first Of wealth for which
men toiled.
Vain boast, o cityl that thy walls g..
pand
Upon wilderness of ruined land;
But vainer still, perhaps, the com,
pensation
Thou offerest To lit, ira 1educationI''-
aPierian spring turned slush ant
filtering down
The country's thrift to penury IL
town!
Unheard the victims plea, the vair
regret,
Not yet th reckoningl Not yet!
Too easy task by far, to trace through
schools
Good, honest workers turned to dupes
and fools
Poor lily-handed, puny, starving
things.
who cringe down low for mites THEN
labor brings.
The corps employed, but, OH great
God, our Judgel
What shall BE- said for those who
hungry, trudge
Thy heartless streets, O town. att thy
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