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Show Industrial Education. B Some of tho great men of the nation are dis- cussing what industrial education is, and many H: of them have very limited ideas. In his Lansing speech President Roosevelt scouted at any fear H' of pauper and unskilled labor in this country, and said the thing to fear is tho marvelously skilled labor which Germany, for instance, is so well equipped with. We think tho fear should be both ways. It is a clear case that to open our gates to an unlimited immigration of Coolie labor from Hj the Orient would cause such distress in our country as would load to a race war first and then to a general war between our country and tho countries of tho brown and yellow men. H. We think so because as rich and groat as our iH country is, as well provided with schools as it is, there are still millions of poor people who have no dependence except upon tho work of thoir hands, and to say they can compete with races that from father to son have been making a fight against famine for four thousand years, is rldlcu-lous. rldlcu-lous. Races that have trained themselves to live Hj oh od which tho stomach of a white man revolts against; that can do with half the air that the B whito man requires; that can livo and support a family on what will not support a white man; to B say there is no fear of competition from those is to talk as the foolish talk. B But, on the othor hand, the need of increasing B our industrial schools, to havo students when B they graduate from them ready with thoir brains B to moot any requirement and ready with their B hands to perform, when necessary, needed work B and to have them trained to feel that the works of hand and brain are alike honorable, that is B what our country needs above all other things. Then there should be discrimination in this edu- One student, for instance, could acquire a knowledge of the chemistry of farming easily. B He could learn to analyze soils and plants and bo able to distinguish what soils would be proper B for certain products, but he could not hang a Hi gate to save his life. Another student would Hj never comprehend the chemistry of anything, but Hj ho would hold a plough or tamo a wild colt by instinct. Another still would have no use for the chomistry or tho active work of farming, but VS when he saw how things wore boing done, he IBj would in throe days have a machine invented Hj which would with half tho accustomed labor dou- H; bio its effectiveness. HB All these would make most useful men if con- Bfl fined to the spheres in which their talents could find congenial work. In Germany a great many Hj men who were educated as artists are now flnd- Hl ing profitable work in preparing designs to be wrought, out in factory looms. They had con-structive con-structive ability from the first, but they failed when some grand design was to be realized in pictures or statuary. In Germany this gift is Hj pressed to the point of making attractive the Hj packages in whicoh Germany exports her goods. Hi Industrial competition should bring out these H, . features, but beneath everything else should be Hi grounded the conviction that all fields of legltl- mate effort are alike honorat". A stranger Hi watching Luther Burbank grafting a flower or a shrub, might, not knowing the man, think it a small and most humble calling. But could they get a glimpse of what was in the man's hope, to Hj produce a rarer fruit or flower than was ever seen before, he would change his mind. All that the good Qod gave to man was his five senses and a possible unseeable sixth sense, and whon all these aro developed and cultivated together, that means an Industrial education. |