Year: 1872

Advice to You, 2 Men by a
Candidate for the Presidency.


Wednesday evening Horace Gree
ley delivered a brief and interesting
address to the young men in attend
ance upon a business college in New
York. We give it for its intrinsic
interest


Ladies and Gentleman The great
est orator and agitator of the New
England States, MIR. Wendell Phil
lips, is reported in the journals as
having lately asserted that every
State owes to every citizen, male or
female, instruction in some useful
trade I do not know that should
care to be responsible for PROPOSE
ton SO broad and so bold as that
but this I am perfectly prepared to
stand by-that if I had my choice
either to have every youth in this
community provided with q good
useful trade, and then to take his or
her chance of what we now call edu-
cation, that is, the education of
schools-or to have every youth get
our school education, and then take
his or her chance with trade, I
would prefer to take the trade, and
do as we could about school educa-
ton. Applause. That is, I do
not believe, if it was practicable to
have every citizen provided with
good trade, that there is another
good within the reach of human ef-
forts so important and SO advancing
as that would be. I do not believe
that there is anything by which our
people suffer 50 much. In the whole
community people arc growingup all
around us in ignorance-not so
much of letters as of the rudiments
Of some means of earning an honest
living. Nothing SO Expresses me as
to be accosted on this hand and on



that with the plaintive appeal and
inquiry. "Can't you find something
for me to do?" You know as we'll
as any what that means that they
do not only lack-the persons who
SO appeal-for something to do, but
they lack in knowing how to do it.
That is the troable, and the main
trouble. 1t is not altogether con-
fined to that class born to poverty,
but extends even to the classes born
to at1luence. I wish it were possible
that every ono should have good
trade; for / know men and women
in this city, many Of them, who
know not how to read, who cannot
write their own names, and yet each
of them is earning an honorable sub
sistence. On the other hand, many
men and women on whose education
large sums have been spent, are
helpless and hopeless.


"I sometimes lament the narrow
ness which governs the common
view of the term education. For if
there is anything in the wolrd which
education should mean, 1t is the arm
ing and equiping men for the battle
of life. Applause. We who are
seeking for reinforcements of the
means of education are not dispar-
aging critics of what was done be-
fore we were born. We don't mean
to say that colleges are bad or use
less, but merely that there is a large
variety Of continually expanding
wants for which new devices must
be created in order to meet them.
Thus the business college means not
that other colleges are worthless, but
that here are wants that pre-existing
, institutions were not calculated to
meet. Human tastes and wants
widen, and create new means fol-
their satisfaction.


81 have the largest and deepest
interest in what are called our agri-
cultural colleges great applause
institutions intended to educate
young men, and I trust, in time