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 School of Agriculture

and Manual Training

For Poor Boys.

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Milton George’s Offer.

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Addressed to those having an interest in the future well—
being of our people.

I have 300 acres of good land in Cook county.
twenty miles south from the Chicago Court
House. that I will donate to a School of Agri-
culture and Manual Training for poor boys. for
the purpose of accommodating and amplifying
the work of the Illinois Training School for
boys. which is now located at Norwood Park,
on the condition that $350.000 in cash be raised
for the equipment and endowment of the same
by the people of Illinois. The land is rich in
agricultural resources. A portion of it is well
wooded. all watered by running streams and is
in every way suited to the intended purpose.
My wish is to be of some help in giving moralI
manual and mental education to boys that will
enable them to become honorable and self-sup-
porting. who otherwise through poverty and
evil associations might lead lives useless to
themselves and detrimental to society.

The gregarious character of our people tends
to centralize our populations into cities
and towns. The development of modern
science and invention with the luxuries
they bring. tend more and more to attract
the productive classes from the farms to the
commercial centres. These are facts evident to
any observer. There are rapid changes going
on in our social conditions that mean no good
to the future well-being of our country. owing
to the lack of proper education of its youth.
The ease by which great fortunes have been
amassed has done much to create a spirit of
unrest among the masses, and to imbue the
minds of the productive classes with the idea
that to labor is not genteel. Are not our edu-
cational systems at fault that the essential dig-

 

nity of labor is not more fully maintained
among the rising generation?

Agriculture is the greatest of the productive
industries and the basis of the wealth of our
country. and it is important to us as a nation
that skill and scientific appliances shall place
farm operations upon the dignified basis of that
occupied by art! or literature. This must be
done or we shall in time cease to be a prosper-
ous nation and finally sink into dissolution and
decay. Through such an enterprise as the one
named above. hundreds of boys may be trained
in a way to become good and useful citizens. and
at the same time a reactory tide of humanity
turned back toward the rural districts to oilset
the one now streaming into the great cities.

The struggle for life in America is becoming
year by year more intense. There is work for
everybody. but some of the work is of the hard-
est character, and will be shunned by the masses
of the people. unless they are taught the honor-
ableness of such eifort. As long as the unfilled
prairie exists. no man can say actuallyhe cannot
live: yet hundreds there are who feel the pres-
sure of competition in this on-rushiug age. as it
has never been felt before in the history of our
race. In this country the most imp rtant in-
dustry is the land. The land built Ch cage. and
is building all the great cities and towns. The
land has paid for the railways. ”the telegraphs-
and is making the future fortunes of this coun-
try. A glorious climate with a fertile and un-
limited land area is the real wealth of America.
Our agricultural population might be doubled.
and the surplus output of the soil greatly in-
creased by more thorough systems in the culti-

 

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mechanics furnish the sinews which perform
much of the labor of the farm. so that it is more
important than ever before that farmers should
be skilled in mechanical and scientific train-
ing.

The future welfare of our country depends
upon the character of the leducation and train-
ing which is provided for the childen and youth.
out of which come the hopes of a higher civili—
zation for the masses. The importance of an
education lies in the line of amoral. manual and
mental culture. and in the order named. In no
other method can the essential dignity of labor
be maintained. A being who is morally honest
in all respects will never beg. steal or take other
undue advatagc of his neighbor. If he has been
trained to work. he will not look in disdain
upon occupations which form the basis of the
prosperity and happiness of a people. Grant
our children a good degree of culture in the line
of a moral and manual training and the intellect
will not dwarf. but develop in a ratio commen—
surate with its needs of higher life.

02

 

This is a practical world in which we live. and
we must look for the practical methods out of
which must come the solution of the social
questions which are now agitating the public
mind. As an example of more practical meth-
ods of teaching. shall we not inaugurate the es-

tablishment of the School of Agriculture and
Manual Training for Boys which we now pro-
pose? Is it not more economical and harmo-
nious with the spirit of our civilization to
educate in the principles of right living and to

inspire to honest endeavor. than it is to support
prisons. erect scaffolds. or to maintain standing
armies to prevent lawlessness that is fostered
by ignorance and passions unrestrained by
right influences? Are capitalists willing to aid
in an effort to provide such an education for
our people. that the standard of citizenship
may be raised and the permanency of our in-
stitution assured. by reaching the surplus
myriads of our youth which are drifting evil-
ward? Yours truly.
MILTON GEORGE AND WIFE.

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SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

AND
Manual Training for Boys.

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-in (address delivered before the Commercial Club of Chicago by

Chas. II. IIam Esq., IIIm'ch 31,

known author of a book

1888. Ellen Ham is the well-
deooted to the subject of

illumml Training, published by IIwrper
d3 Bros., New York.

In the gray of the morning. one day last week,
a woman entered a police station. in the city of
New York. and told the Sergeant that her hus-
band having died. and she. after a terrible
struggle. being no longer able to provide for
their (hildren. had poisoned them!

Asked why she killed them she replied:

“Because I loved thcml"

And this scene of horror. of the despair of
poverty and the pathos of crime. occurred in the
very heart of the proudest civilization in the
worldl Just round the corner from where the
distracted mother's little innocents lay dead.
wealth abounded. Across the way from the
wretched tenement of death were mansions
rich in all the splendors of art, supplied with
all the luxuries of life.

Alas! how pitiful—starvation and despair
within the very sound of the voice of revelry-
and none to says!

And it is the more 'piiiiul because the happy

 

rich would have sprung so eagerly to the rescue

of the mother with love in her heart and mur-
der in her brain, had they but knownl

What 'an awful gulf there is between abund-
ance and want!

The misery of the poor in London so oppresses
Ruskin that he says in one of his books:

“I feel constantly as if I were living in one
great churchyard. with people all round me
clinging feebly to the edges of the open graves.
and calling for help as they fall back into them
out of sight.”

How shall we span this gulf that yawns be-
tween the rich and the poor?

For this is the only way in which crime can
be prevented-by abolishing pauperlsml Merely
relieving poverty is a temporary expedient un-
worthy the serious consideration of men bent
upon real reform.

It is our duty to address ourselves to the
task of abolishing poverty. and so, by a master-
stroke, render the indefinite multiplication of
crimes impossible. Nor is it wise to plume

 

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ourselves too much on the virtuousness of our
action in behalf of the poor and miserable: for
it is strictly a question of self-preservation.

If society does not abolish poverty and its
attendant brood of crimes. poverty will abolish
society! All the ancient civilizations perished
through conflicts between the rich and the
poor. But instead of learning wisdom from
history. we not only cling to the biblical dogma
that "the poor shall never lcease out of the
land." but upon the strength of this pessimistic
assumption we have created a vast system of
charieties. which _ comprehends all civilized
countries and peoples and appears to have been
designed to last forever.

When the inquiry is made. "Where is thy
brother?" we do not. as Cain did. say. “Am I my
brother’s keeper?" But we point to a thousand
hospitals. poor-houses. orphan asylums and
Homes for the Friendless and say. meekly.
"There is our brother: we keep him there." and
we might add. "and keep him poor."

But whether we are our brother’s keeper or
not. we cannot escape the poisonous contact of
his vices if we keep him poor. In Mr. Dickens'
greatest work he graphically depicts a poor
quarter of London under the name of “Tom-All-
Alones." He says:

“There is not an atom of Tom's slime. not a
cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he
lives. not one' obscenity nor degradation about
him. not an ignorance. not a'wickedness. not a
brutality of his committing. but shall work its
retribution through every order of society, up
to the proudest of the proud and to the highest
of the high."

How tragically true this picture is!

In the glaring headlines of your morning
paper you read the story of wrecked lives. of
murders and suicides in high station. of trusts
betrayed. of honor bankrupted. of manhood de-
graded and shamed; of he. 1'who. on the highest
round of the social ladder. suddenly plunges
headlong. like Lucifer. to the lowest: of she.
yesterday. courted.'respected. admired. to-day
shunned. scorned. athing to be spurned!

It is startling—the moral, likeness between
fortune's favorites and fortuue's victims! It is
plain that the vices bred by poverty and ignor-
ance work their terrible retribution not only in
the lowest strata but through every order of
society: and it is equally clear that vice is not
inherent but that it is dependent upon en-
vironment. The way. then. to prevent pauper-
ism and crime is to change the conditions which
predispose to poverty and hence lead to the
commission of crime. And I venture to assert
that there will be no dissent from the proposi-
tion that the road to this end lies solely through
education.

No man of wealth neglects the training of his
children. Nor is he content with less than the

most limit of their capacity to take culture.

 

On the authority of Dr. Eliot. of Harvard
University. the age at which the young man.
destined to a profession. becomes self-support-
ing is twenty-seven years.

How is it with the children of the poor?

The report of the Factory Inspector of the
State of New York for 1886. is the most disheart-
ening statistical record I have ever read. It de-
clares that foreign-born children lately arrived
in this country and employed in factories. are
better informed than natives of the same class:
and it shows. (1) That very few American-born
children so employed can tell the year of their
birth. the name of the State they live in. or

spell the name of their native town: (9) that '

many children who have just passed the legal
limit of thirteen years. have been in factory
service five and six years. and have never at-
tended school: (3) that the number of parents
who are willing to commit perjury to keep their
children in the factory is very large. and that
children are carefully drilled to verify the false
oaths of their parents: and. finally. (4) that to
the exigencies of competition and the greed of
employers is due nearly all the ignorance and
physical weakness observable in the young. and
even in the adults of the present generation.
Our cities are full of factories which are full
of children of the class described in the fore-
going excerpt. In a factory of this character in
this city. a girl thirteen years old. who received
$2 a week for ten hours daily service. was lately
beaten to death by an overseer. And beyond

the walls of factory and shop. wander-
ing about the streets. are thousands of
waifs. wretched little children. who sleep in al-
leys and under sidewalks. who dispute with
one anothethhe possession of a crust. who fight
like young savages for the garbage that falls
from the basket of the scallion—the strongest
winning. and satisfying the cravings of hunger.
the weakest starvingl
Is there anything on earth more sorrowful?

“And well may the children weep before you:
They are weary ere they run:

They have never seen the sunshine nor the glory
Which is brighter than the sun.

They know the grief of men. but not the wis-
dom:
They sink in the despair without the calm-—
Are slaves without the liberty in Christdom.—
Are martyrs to the pang without the palm.—

Are worn as if with age. yet unretrievingly

No dear remembrance kcep.——

Are orphans of the earthly love and heavenly:

Let them weep! let them weep!"

But at this price all industrial prosperity is
dearly bought. At this price every industrial
triumph is a moral defeat. Every step of such
progress leads toward the last ditch! If we do
not rescue American children from this fate—-
worse than death—our institutions will surely

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perish. It will soon come to pass that there
shall be neither State to save nor men to save it.

Six years ago to-night I enjoyed your hospi-
tality. as I enjoy it again to-nigbt: and then.
as now. I had the honor to press upon your at-
tention the subject of education. I urged you
to found a school in which there should be a
perfect union between the hand and the brain.
a school in which Bacon‘s aphorism should
have absolute sway—his declaration that. “Ed-
ucation is the cultivation of a just and legit-
imate familiarity betwixt the mind and things."

How generously you responded io that appeal
is a historic fact of great significance. The
school you then founded is the most famousin-
stitution of learning in this country. if not in
the world. It is literally the realization of
Bacon‘s ideal—"a college for the discovery of
new truth." And one of the new educational
truths it has brought to light. is the fact that
the intelligent training of the hand so reacts
upon the mind. that its pupils. who spend half
iheir time at the drawing-board, the bench and
the anvil. make as much academic progress as
pupils of the old school who spend their entire
time with books.

Your school is the propaganda of the new ed-
ucational evangel. It receives visitors from all
parts of the English speaking world. and its in-
fluence is co-extensive with the boundaries of
civilization. It has not only created a demand
for manual training schools everywhere. but it
has put new life into the kindergarten move-
ment. and promoted the establishmc nt 0
schools in various departments of domestic sci-
ence in many of the large cities of the country

When I left your hospitable board on that
evening. six years ago. I was impressed with a
feeling of profound gratitude to your club. and
of great hopefulness for the future of educa-
tion. But the event has far more than justified
my most sanguine expectations. and I thank
you, gentlemen. in the name. not of a sect. nor
of a. party. not of a State. or of the nation. but
of humanity; for right education is but another
name for civilization. and you have raised civil-
ization to a higher plane.

And now on this. the sixth anniversary of the
birth of your great enterprise—the enterprise
that has prospered so wondrously. the enter-
prise that has made your club so justly famous
—I come before you to present for your consid-
eration an educational proposition more com-
prehensive and far-reaching than the one you
have so happily brought to such high fruition.

A school for waifs—this is what I ask you to
found: a school that shall make useful citizens
of outcasts: a school that shall make worthy
men and women of poor little children left
to their fate. left to drift into vice. pauperism
and crime. It is for Chicago that I ask you to
found this school. There are thousands of
children here now. who need its protecting shel-
ter. its firm discipline. its practical training. its

 

tender care.