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

when il Denies NOrA1hs vi lhe
Sou-It is Preparing us for Revolt
utiOn.
TO the Editor;
poI+imo~e is just arranging to SEND
Iuuu warrants to the House OF
',,1.rnrrign because they won't Work,
.L ,~arrou county is just arranging
.-,'1 -and 10 Jail a father or his son
i,...I,.a the latter has worked at
@nI honest, very important work.
5rromr- and Migrants were things I'M
,,,'.,,.n To our 1orefathers before the
T"r- of compulsory education, as
I,.-[,,rf Grant White showed in the
%.rIh American Review of December,
IVA 1nuer the heading The Pubic
,.l,,i Failure" Idle and lmbeclle
,.'n are multiplying just in proper
-:.r y, COMPULSORY education is eA-
tended. ,o.. ,,.,,io,,
,,n ultrioticaIly published, that |
i.1rurd fighting against compul-
surv laws at the last session OF our
LEGISLATURE, | Will tell you the reason
in WAS because | saw things had
r,r, 10 such d pass that chaos ana
~r.a,rJfj0n were looming up and 1t
was 100 late in the day to do any
r..ry further in the two years that
ar. passing We see the greatest COM
r4rr+Yrr education country in the
y.Y:ia-Germany the bat
ling Of the world in blood. The
,yn.Eiug people of this country, who
arn seeing their liberties taken from
rn.m one after another, are ripe for
2, .JLuti0n.
nrrystd war and revolution both,
... mast tell the facts. A man who
writes Tor all the Baltimore papers
oru-r Inc privately the other day
That nr knew OF 1000 men in Balti-
more who were armed with rifles,
rad. 10 avail Of any outbreaks. This
- IL pretty showing in d city that has
.l4.loa that with compulsory educa-
tfen all would be we'll One of Balti-
mare.s leading lawyers, James j..
r.,.,-a-. had letter in the Balti-
more &un predicting revolution. Thus
Nv. -oa TO what our boosted education
h.a brought us.
ind now / learn that the son of j..
Warren Strevig has been tried and
found guilty OF working. The work
nv did was narrowing, seeding,
rMrusning, husking corn and working
among pOtatoes-just the work, that,
above all others, is calculated to keep
intending famine from our country.
And H. there a prospect of famine?
Well. the other day a leading New
ENGLAND paper, the New Bedford Ev-
cu.uE Standard, gave an editorial,
headed The Famine Menace and it
@nt the idea from our own Baltimore
manufacturer heCOrd. Both papers
stated people must get back to the
Hut and raise things, and that very
quickly.
Say it is d crime before men and
=.u ueGOre GOI to arrest in this
crisis am man, woman or child for
wurnIug. and especially at that most
uu.... most useful and most health
rI occupation Of man''-ag agriculture.
~a lair a5 have heard this cOmpul-
au., educ alton law is q dead letter
lu. a. most OF the % counties of the
STAGE. Of course, | may not be fully
informed, but SO far as | have heard
Carroll county is the only one trying
to enforce the law. | have heard of
one locality in which - farmers
SONS refused to stop fall work and go
nv school, and not one arrest was
made
The county school superintendents,
with the State heads, have been dis
.I- ing the opposition to the law and
have asked how best to meet il, but
they are not meeting it at all. They
are al supposed to be men of the
. aA4st Intelligence, yet they are com
n.eteIy mum when they see letters in
The leading papers of the State from
'1rmers and others in opposition to
The law. They know the law does
not represent public opinion and they
r.@r TO publicly antagoniZe that
o"iuion. Every law that intimately
concerns the industrial should have a
,H-e taken upon it. Even SO fOrmid-
Jn.. in array as there was in oppoSi-
tuu 10 liquor, found itself annihIl-
At@l when confronted by the popular
,"tc-and compulsory education
would have met a much better de-
served waterloo had it been voted on.
The fight between education and
farm tiIlage was shown up some years
@@m Ivy friend of mine named George
.&@arrie 1t was in reply to the So
riaUsr, Edwin Markham, who wrote
The Man With the Hoe Here it is:
THE MAN WITHOUT THE HOE.
Mint vet full at the food that human
tde,
tr"~n from the field to swell the
cities pride
Cots honest, faithful field, thus twice
dcspOiled,
n' men, but first of wealth for which
men toiled.
Vain boast, O city. that thy walls eX-
pand
1 r5u Il Wilderness Of ruined land:
Ill. yainer still, perhaps, the com
ncnsation
Tacu offerest to all. in "education."-
.l"r.uu spring" yi"n2l slush ard
altering down
The countrv's thrift to perjury in
town,
.uheard the victims plea, the vain
regret.
Not vet tn reckoning! Not yet!
Zoo 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 their
labor brings.
The corps employed, but, oh, great
God, our Judge
What shall be said. for those who,
hungry, trudge