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CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGL FRIDAY, AUG U8T 16.1889.
A TELLING LETTER.
COL. WATSON AND Dr. BOGGS
The Chancellor’s Legislative
Speech and What Mr. Watson
Thinks of it—what is The Du
ty ot the State of Georgia.
Tirmreov 11 ,’,. , 1 a Tide 1 R ’ isaq
T?Txr™,r,„ JiDirou journal. t .. Alter a r, . so;ih' ]w
,
hminary trumpet.ug among the
in different parts oi the state, the dls
tmguished Chancellor of our universi
ty has made a final grand appeal-o th''
legislatuie in behalf of wlmt is calico
•iiigner Eiiucation.
His pleasant to see now sKiiiuiiy
our Chancellor begins Ins address.'
Like the lawyer who assures .his jmy
that never betore was such a jury
paneiieu, so I r. Boggs most suavely
flatters Ins auditory; assures them that
this legislature is tire very best tho
state has had for years and that the
footsteps of every member of that au
siist fiodj are ollowed >y the applaud,
mg attention of a grateful and admit •
iiig constituency.
The Atlanta ... , Constiution ,, ,. ,. goes into .
a state of ecstacy over this gteat
speech; asserts positively that its ar
interviews gument is with unanswerable; legislators gives us
various
who weie more or less capsized by this
rhetorical gale, arid leaves the lmjires
sion geneiaiiy mat jor. Boggs most
effectually whooped the boys tip.
When the Constitution has an ob
f act e ! wise,y .!! ,I'! W it f i ne o c j ui 0 10 ' 18 , C1 attach 'f 111 , too
its .etteis Horn *2- distinguished I , lS , Ir ? t , erv . lews men ’„
and its telegrams from prominent citi
zens. 1 here is such a tiling as man
ufactunng “public sentiments” and
the Constitution is something of an
expert m doing it.
What are the “unanswerable argu
menta” which Dt Boggs used? If he
made any of that character the re
porter has carefully eliminated them
liom his teport.
I he issues are these:
up lj|hall mst, the or shall common they schools give way be to built tins
movement to spend a great deal morn
money on the btate university? Shall
all the cluldien in tlm state, rich and
glisli P° a *’ education, ^f Ve *. ie J or shall Mie a J tax HIV moil
ey of the people be taken to build up
colleges where only the favored few
can learn Latin and mek and a vas
deal of impractical nonsense? m
.mu..- ‘ * '
■•Ik y 1
-- i, Does Dr. .
These: a- . questions.
Boggs meat them’? s
Listen to him. - I
“You asked mey’’ said Iso, “it” we
cannot take the common schools ias a
foundation of education arid Guild
upon that? I answer you eana.mly;
no we cannot. In building a house,
like tliis capitol, for instance, you
have to build a foundation first > and
upon it raise superstructure al ter *
wards. But it so happens that educa¬
tion is not a house. That is not’ the
analogy. Look at that sun. I hat
is the correct analogy, as it risos, giv¬
ing life and light to everything
on earth.”
Tins happy comparison, with the tre¬
mendous argument compress -d in it,
struck the audience like a solid «h d ,
and they applauded it with a will.
Precisely. A nice piece of rhetoric
of that sort will always please the hoys,
i know this because 1 sometimes drop
into that kind of thing rnyself, just as to
Silas Wegg sometimes “drapped ip
poetry, hut when I do, I don’t any
more consider it “busiuess” than Silas
did.
Now to the analogies: . In butlo
mg a house,” says the doctor, _ “you j
have to build a foundation first, etc. |
But it so happens that .education is j
not a house!” !
Observe the artistic skill of the stal e
inent. A mere clumsy jacking at,
handling words would have said “J. <
ueatior is not a house;” and toe ;
moment he had done so some 1 eve
rent rogue would have responded
“Well, who said it was?” But IJr. .
Boggs is too skilfull of fence for ariy
such commonplace, so be says,
it so happens that education is not a
bouse,” and thus he at once makes
the impression that something quite «f
new has been added to treasures n.
literature.
Having ,, in - this knightly m man M „„*r ne 1
] unhorsed the one analogy, the Listen a a.to
proceeds to equip the other.
; to him: “Look at that sun, ^e.-' ,
aiidfenw Whereunon says our reporter, the
wen’ li) to nieces
cenary troops-they can be found
fighting & on both sides. This thought
jzt &s
saw that the audience laughed over,
j the anecdote, their conduct became so;
mysterious that I could only explain
it upon the idea that they felt bound
to repay the speaker for bis very com
plimentary opening rcnoaika.
But will the doctor’s analogy do?
Does it not likewise “happen”
education is not the sun? What U
““*• I Pt ““uiife air
suu waruu
1 (ou cart li) will the college
so warm
to intellectual life all the citizous of
t i ^tate that found it. How?
. > does he put it this way: As the
..!) warms into life the plants, etc.,
! on earth, so will the graduates of tho
u, lkge diffuse culture upon those citi
tens who do not go ro college.
Again, how?
suppose we have 1,000 children to bo
schooled; 100 of them can go The to col
; 000 of them cannot. 000
at home and have no efficient
pmon school training. The 100 go
Athens and learn everything that
. Boggs can teach them, including
, knowledge of history and the
anco-German war. Now, how will
burning of the 100 reach the 1 ) 00 ?
caching them? If so, how and
n and at whose expense? In mas
j, iws (or them? But they already
more laws than they can read,
besides, the best laws come from
'common people and not the educa
i ,.,i classes. In writing good books for
4- ietn- What good will the books do
fossibly Hie people are not taught to read?
Collegians It may be done by these wise
creating “an atmosphere”
1 r Jr ruing, Dr. Boggs calls it; and
as
ten these unfortunated illiterates will
jgo.t Waslflugton their collegiate training as ho says
got lus, bv living “near
enough to absorb much of the culture
that floated in the air of that society, ”
f , 1( ..
This is a pretty theory—this idea of
taking one’s education at the nostril,
m he does the scent of a flower. But
v;l! it work? When ami where will
|hi«se 000 plowboys and their sisters
get into the society of thoie college
i,.,y S B0 as to breathe this curium
[‘atmosphere” vill educate people? which I)r. Bogg thinks
[Aye Viewing the question practically, I
,,| no more faith in this “atmos
ere >. theory for general use than
H ancho Pmiziv (Aftertrial) l had in the
f | m0Uf) ]hUun „f Don Quixote.
iweding with his address Dr.
- ^ggs„aid: “So far as the towns are
11 C en,ed, they produce very few first
tHS The reporter innocently
ds, “This startling statement was
dj,!.” jlculated Well, t o draw I should attention, and it
j^paase think so; not
the thought was at all new,
^ii.t because Dr. Boggs has settled an
(](! i,,t which incapable most poopk had
,>[>oh'm 1 t« be of settlifttient.
Nib boyish debating societv ever i vilnd
debate, , loner or later, the old, old
Question (jountry produced as to whether the},r the city But or
utter men.
' sundy thought that it
£ . as was
v other' ' for d**
„u utterly
troM j's 'vi pv
'wlflch e t'o'.maltH good his asser
tloiv wad so startling to our of
report •'< I imagine that if either
mv f/emls, Senator l)osli Massengale inclined
ot :y (lil! , or j 06 Strouther, felt
t,, 4ke issue with the doctor and ue
| Jrt |,e tlm question with him, they might
o 3 tartle” him quite as much ns lie
gtarte( j the reporter,
They wiiuld easily prove that great
numbers of tho very greatest inon of
all times and all countries have come
from tho towns. They will show Dim
Alexander the Great coming from
Pella; Hannibal from Carthag*; Omar
from Borne; Napoleon from Ajaccio.
They will show him Aristotle coming
from Stageira: .Sir Isaac Newton from
Woolsthorpe; Bacon from London and
Locke from NVrington. Shakspcare
They will also show him
coming from Stratford-on-Avon; Mil¬
ton, Byron. Pope from London;Goethe
t rom Prankfort-on-the-Main; Scott
f roul Edinburgh; Donte from Plorenco
aft( j Bwift from Dublin. Virgil comes
(nnn Tasso from Sorrento,
(jieero was born in tho country; De
moathens in the town. Luther came
j» rom ttle town) alJ( i so did his forernu- from
}l(;r ’ \yj c kliffi;. Socrates came
Uie town ar)( | H()j I think did Plato.
Thus the list might be extended
indefinitely and our senators would
,. ()Ut Hoggs “horse, foot and dra
A 001)H< »> Gol. Strother wouldn’t ask
|||y „ aS j er j„R u, a n to talk Dr. Boggs
, nt0 a stat( , 0 f in-ipir-HH collapse upon a
theme so capable of being discussed
forever.
The learned Chancellor comments
J^^hed ( the fact that so many distin
k men of the Hie cities have
come 10 m country. The fact that
you ry birth find so in many the towns able men simply of the shows conn -1 |
that towns aro considered the best
stage for ambition. They luvo more
woalttl aa(1 more opportunities for the
. . lL hardly do to say Uiat
' .' » themselves produce sotno
K ^ rc,lt .r,' rnen '
It will hardly do to say that .. , town ,
concede that Dr. 15
he announces that tl.o tow ns‘produce
s?
first. This is nec^arily so an 1 •
always been so. Now, accorling
Ur. Boggs, the great men do not come
from those pi ices which enjoy the
g , t. education. How about this,
., toi. portion of . , Ins •
in tb« historical ar
gumeot Dr. Boggs was equally unfor
tunate The reporter saysthat “rnmn
TiA^nu . «;;
Due old gentle-
Torms; $ 1 . 80 , In Advanoa.
man who bad bean nodding slightly,”
etc.
Cun it be possible that these “drowsy
j persons” were some of those who had
been so profusely tufflal by thr Chancel
lor at tho opening of his speech? Can
it be that, tho “old gentleman who had
teen nodding slightly” is one of those
whoso eminent footsteps if followed by
the admiring gaz; of a grateful con
stituency?
Let us turn from this picture of
painful ingratitude and follow the doc*
tor in his “unanswerable argument.”
“All history,” lie says, “testifies
that intelligence rules tho world.”
Then follows hia illustrations,
Would that wo could believe jtl
Would that the earnest student could
shut his eyes to the fact that martial
prowers, brute force and agressiyo will
power have always dominated the
mere scholarship of the world,
The rude mountaineers that follow
ed Cyrus despised the learning and
civilization of Babylon and swept it
from earth. What better did they
build in its place?
The elegant culture of Athens and
Thebes disappeared before the iron
tread of the illiterates Macedonian,
whether led by Alexander, Phillip or
Parmenio.
All the learning of Greece formed
no shield to tho ruthless Bpear of
Home.
The ignorant Fianks, worshiping pagan gods
and of letters, blotted out
the civilization of Oliristain Gaul—
destroyed its schools, robbed its
churches and seized its lands, which
they hold to this day.
The Angles and the Saxons, a band
of pirates and freebooters, utterly srv
age and Godless swoopep down upon
( hristiai: Britain, slew tho priest at
the altar and tlm scholar at Ills studies
and utterly subdued the land as his
forever,
Tho Tartars, the Moslems, tho
Ilans, the Goths, tho Vandals! Did
they not ob 1 iterate forever many a
people more cultured an 1 enlightened
than they? li not all Europe and
Asia strewn with the relics of mug
nlftcent works of, art, which barba¬
rians despoiled but could not repJaoe—
with palaces, temples, bridges, harbors
canals which they could destroy but
could not roproduo?
Have they who drove out tho Moors
ever reared an AllmnJbra?
Have they who sacked Athens over
built a Parthenon?
Did they who came after in Fgypt
duplicate the temple of Karnak,’ or
the Obelisks, or the Pyreo)’.'*, or the
Sphinx?
‘bia ruled * aer, a
InTii vflTi tun wind and salute. ........
Italy. Tlm Goths Where ami the the Lombardy triumph! of intel¬ |rejl
are for¬
lect, with which they would make us
get those whom conquered they conquered? Constantinople
The Turk of
ami held It. But the glorious tulture
the Greeks, whom he subdued, was be¬
yond his rivalry and his comprehension. Bui war’s
Does Dr. Boggs remember
lino picture of Bootlieas, the Scholar, lit
tlie dungeon wull of Tlieodorlc, for to romnmber tlm Goth? that
It may he ui
In national life, as In Individual life, thorn
are elements of success much more y ower
full than education—element* which edu
cation can help, but cannot supply and
cannot resist. Hence it is that rude na¬
tions and rude men are so often the
vietfirs. complacency that Dr.
It is with grolU of France
Boggs alludes to the Instance
and Germany, lie savs that after the ile
featof France, the French government In -
quired of the French Institute why it was
In her hour or trial, France found so few
that,men of superior Intel led to serve her.
The reply was. "Because Franco (under
Napoleon I.J had destroyed her system of
liulveisitv education” Dr. Boggs goes on
to say, "And this reply, according politi¬ to a
distinguished British scientist and
cian, noman has ever disputed.” Possi¬
bly not. The 1 eason may be that no man
has ever thought it worth disputing.
Most men, on reflection, arc ant to con¬
clude that tlm profound imbecility of the
It dispute,
llassumes as true wlmt all men
know to he untrue, viz 1 iial. university
education can supply Intellect. II does
nothing of the sort—never did and never
wllL_ iie ■ history _ will seek deeper -
’i student of
for tin: causes of France’s defeat. Among
them he will not forget the reaction and
depletion consequent, upon the immense
drafts upon Frame; by the First. Napoleon:
he will not forget the corruption, the wild
xttravaRanctvau ‘1 favoritism which u.a<hi
the .Second Empire so notorious; lie will
" a l 1 ^’'f,'„! ) , a zi , nes of supplba reach and the amuni- starv
ttn-y did not
oUljl . r an ^ his empty musket; anil by
m)m „ wi n he forget the superior
weapons and discipline of Germany. told
1 twill lie news to most people to be
that France Is not the equal of tubdligenci;
in learning and in native
Had Chan/.y commanded where the Crown
,. rin „ (; .pa, tlie victor doubtless would
J.v history. The facts collegiate donut sustain training him.
w , had „„
j^.^u^totheheroofthewarofisi?- D<a)s ho not re nem
Andrew Jackson. education at all?
1)i<r j a ,-,kson had n<»
| j„ sp itc of his illimracy he outrankiM ati
( .<i !„• dashed intw the politi al arena and
,i,,itei forces of Glay,
We p, t ,, r an d Ualhoun.
^ alhM , ( , < u> the Mexican war; will he
ar ,WWBMWh co,wr * en \ J
y‘. B. Forest.’’ Vet Forest was scarcely
NO. 33 .
able to wirto hi* name.
Dr. Boggs would have us believe that
Lee, Jackson and the Johnstons owed to
their collegiate training at home the pre¬
eminence which they achieved fever other
cadets at Wear (Vint Well, Grant, Slier
mad and Sheridan 1 ecane pre-eminent
on the other side. Thy imd also none to
West Point; to wlmt did they owe their
pre-eminence?
And what has lie to say for the score of
other cadets from the Soutli who had the
same home training r.s Leu, the Johntons
and Jackson, and yet who never amounted
to a row of pins?
Is Or. Hoggs becoming so carried away
that he is forgetting the natural talent,
which forces its way outword, upward
and onword legardless of education?
lias ho readied the point, were he coil*
aiders education as synonymous with
Intellect, If learning and wisdom?
so lot us remind him of tlm old Saxon
Proverb which says “No fool is a complete
foil till he learn* Latin.” Let me remind
him, it is not to the scholars that proudest
achievements belong. The ehiefest of our
treasures as a people have been won for us
by the clear, native intelligence of the
people, by experience. schooled in actual lire, educated
I haven't the space P> enlarge on these
would, thoughts, but they explain wlmt otherwise
from Dr. Boggs standpoint, be In¬
explicable. learned They explain why the un
slink spear o surpasses raw Ben
Johnson," why SkobelelT was the most
brilliant of Hussion soldiers; why Surwar~
row was almost Invincible; why Bums, the
the plowman banker; Is a greater Pronttss nod than Hegors
than Everett; why was a greater
orator why rail-splitter Lin¬
coln was a loftier figure than the college
bread Seward; why the uncultured Clay
could dominate Webster and silenco
Clioite; and why Andrew Jackson could
rout the great trio.
In other words, eute,licet is Ood-givont
Education can only polish tfie diamond.
Don't mistake the polish for the diamond.
Don’t tutus lose our heads over this sud¬
den clamor for “higher education.”
The present legislature has tho full con¬
fidence of the people. We believe it to btf
ft conservative, reliable ami highly intelli¬
gent doily.
Our people rely upon them noet to go Into
extremes. Not to overestimate collegiate
training any,more than education they will under¬
estimate It; not to give over tir
'centralism, which is the bane of go many
other (live good things. thorough system of
us a common:
schools, whore If all thu have hoys and girls o.iut
get a start. they any special keep merit
in them they can manage to going
after they get a good start.
Uive us good the common anil schqpl llrtl Thorn
we can train child yet preserve
our parent il control.
One of the sadest hours with a parent I*
that 111 which bn sends Ills child to colleger
—the parental discipline Is gone ami so is
the hoy—sometimes.
It Is quite natural that Dr. Boggs ar'
the graduates from tho .State iimw'
and the taustecs thereof should
the'.r ad llonnl appropriation.
We can all understand lire
sdatft t.
Mood Poison. { *
Is every liable to follow eontacet of tfrir
I,amis or face with wlmt Is known as pol¬
son icy, especially I 11 hot weaker or if tho
body is perspiring freely. Tile trouble
111a) subside for a time, only to appear In
aggravated form when opportunity
offers. The great purifying power of
Hood's Sarsaparilla thoroughly eradicate
every 1 race of poison from the blood, as
the cure It lias accomplished conclusively
show. It also cures scrofula, salt rheuriv
and all other affections arising ' > t «
pure or polwnied blood.
The Mississippi law which Blogger
Sulivan violated fixes as the minimum'
penalty for his offense a fine of $o 00 .
The worst lie can get is a fine of $l,B0O‘
or one year in j til, or both.
—
Physicians CJonfess.
All Inmost, conscientious physicians
who give if. If. It. (Hr tanlc Blood Balm)
a trial, frankly admit its superiority over
all other blood medicines.
Dr. J. W. Rhodes, Crawfordville, Go. -
writes, “I confess B. 4 !. B. is the best
and quickest medicine for rheumatism I
have ever tried.”
Dr. VV J. Adair, Ilockmart, Ga., writes:
"1 regard li. B. B. as one of the best blood
medicines,'' Dr A. H. Roscoe, Nasi ville,
Tenn., writes. “Al! reports of B. B. B.
arc favorable, and Its speedy action i»'
truly wonderful.”
Dr. S. J. Farmer, Crawfordville, Ga.,
writes: “I cheerfully recommend B. B.
U. as a fine tonic alterative. Its use cured
excrescence of the neck after other reme¬
dies effected no perceptible good.”
Dr. C. If. Montgomery, Jacksonville,
Fla., writes: “My mother Insisted on my
getting li. It li. for her rheumatism, as
her ease stubbornly resisted Hie usual
remedies. She experienced Immediate
relief and her improvement hasbeen truly
wonileiful.”
A prominent physician who wlslies his
name not given, says- “A patient of
mine wlioes case of tertiary syphilis was
surely kill ing him, ai d which no treat¬
ment seemed to check, was entirely cured!
with about twelve bottles of B. B. B. Htv
WHS fairly made up of skin and bones anil
terrible ulcers.’*
In the election in Floyd county
Ct . . . . , were defeated
a 600 majority. They w,l»
) ■ the election on the ground of i»
VlJ t«‘S having been cast, bat
1 siUns to to tie bi a hoiielesa case,
| w b^s w* b,tters
mortal radlhw.oawrapper.
