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6 THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. . .,, -.-. - ..., 11 1; Tcnhcr, tho liitlwnrk of our Kopubllo. drive n nail straight might loach. Il reasonable', then. Hint their oHtimullon of our free institutions is loss after arriving A. well trutnoit ami woli paid corps of in this country limn when they first loft teachers is the most p"nnnnont foundation their own. If as good facilities wore nf- thut our government can rest upon, as the cull urn and intellectual progress of a na. forded for educating their children as in theirown eountrv. Ihev would undoubted lion can always be determined oy the I ly take greater interest in tho allairs of number and proficiency of its teachers, state. The lonelier moulds the individual, iudi-j Examining Iho yearly report of the vidunls mould the nation. It Is useless to Chief ol lite Bureau of Statistics, wo thing, thai tends to Inake a man honora ble. And when any position of trust is placed in his hands, Hint liurnlnff ilr.vre, that nrtrfetom thfnt for gain develops il continues, corruption increases. When man has slmpl, ldarited to fear Iho law of God, then will corruption be done nwny Willi, and uio origin sun ol posteiHy be it ' it self, iiiul lie Meals, no, not stoats uui em. piumo io some vwr more, mil ns wc hezzlos every cent Hint Is in his power to said above, the religious tendencies of do. Now wo do not wish lo be under-1 mankind are growing less. Free ihoughi, have learned statesmen and judges to make and interpret Hie laws, unless the people obey and rospool them. What avail would our congress alone be in the ceulio of Ethiopia? Could all its learning and elo quencc sway the savage mind? What a marked coiurast between Prus- ia, with its large and intelligent corps of lind that the number of mechanics, farm ers and laborers who arrived in this conn. try, lo be about SUU.OOO, while there were stood that all politicians are of HiN class, if so we wrong greal and honorable men. There have been men, and Iheie me now, who are distinguished nclors upon the po litical stage, without a particle of dishon esty coursing within their veins, true In their country, honesl in all Hieir denlingsi free poeeht is taking its place, and instead of the sun of prosperity growing blights, il is darkened by tho vast gloom ofdMmn. csty. and lost forever in Hie clouds of cor ruptioti Sam Paink The Dlnn of Kiierjry. only ISO teachers. From this we could j upright in all of Hieir tiansactious. Hut conclude that there is a yearly increase of j tho number is comparatively small. Tho A person cannot help but express his about SJOO.OOO immigrants who depend up on us for the education of their ehildieu. political bo t is an exceedingly hard one : pleasure when he sees an energetic umn lo lido, let the waves be ever so tranquil. ! It is said that neither time nor tide wait thai whips and Mams her teachers. In ono, law and order reign supreme; in the other, disorder and tumult. The cause of this disorder is thought, by some, to be the lack of higher education. It seems that this can not be, as Louisiana, Texas and others have higher institutions of learning (hut will almost compare with If our irilion would retain its prosper! j You know not at wh.it moment the boat, for any one, ami oven the sluggard, who teachers, and France, where priestcraft ly, these immt be educated. Tho iueslion t like a machine of Yankee ingenuity, will idly waits for the coining of the mythical takes Iho place of the intelligent teacher! lis, have wo the means wherewith to do it, enpsi.c, hurling the rider into iho liubii- 'belter days, feels an interest in the person In Hie oontliet between Prussia and Franco ' Our school buildings may be elegantly lent waves of intricate dLsgrnoo. At the who persevering takes advantage of victorious Prussia was more Indebted to complete, and charmingly beauliful, but ! present writing, Iho news goes Hashing every opportunity and pushes oil lo some, her teachers than lo her soldiers. The ' these arc naught without the teacher. I across the continent, thai Mr. Iolknnp, . thing boiler. Truly, a man may be po.. French could not long withstand Hie in- j What a grand Hold is open to the teacher the secretary ol war is caught in the act of sessed by a great ambition, but where lie telllgont arniy of the Prussians. It was a not the pedagogue, but tho life-sustain. I defrauding tho government out of vast has not welded energy fast to his ambition, contlict between knowledge and illiteracy, ing teacher. Not one who is gorged and i sums of money, and in scarce twenly-four success can never ciown the cubits which We need not go abroad for examples, as surfeited with facts, whose mind is a fossil-, hours, il is known all over the continent, he so feebly puts forth, our own eountrv contains numerous illus- i.ed entity, but one whose thoughts and that a man who had always had the repu-' When a man desires to become an ex trations. Mark the dilVerence between 'actions nay, whose very presence will tation of bong honest and upright had ' perl in using a gun so as to shoot with no Now England, with its landscape thickly he an Incentive to a higher and nobler J fallen into a slate of degradation and dis- curacy, he puts up a mark and with mi ddled with sehoolhouses, and Louisiana ' life, one who will iiH.ile the numl to think, I honor. This again illustrates what wc 'ceasing perseverance shoots at il. Ho in lo act, lo observe for itself. This, in brief ' have said above. Mr. Helknap was ajthe vast Held opened up by education, is the ideal teacher that is hoped ere long i yonng man, who had served faithfully as ' there are many objects lo which the alien to bo realized. Whore could a young and j a soldier of tho Into war, and at the time, i Hon may bo riveted, and If there is not a energetic person Hnd a more noble and of his appointment making a scanty living ' settled purpose to hold one, the many arc holier calling a calling that is dvo from j by the means of the law. 'Tis true, per-' liable to divorl.to such an extent that no the temptations of the law and corrupt haps ho deserved some reward for hi sor- I great or worthy results can bo attained, politics. Indeed, if the risinggoneiMtions j vices in the late rebellion, undoubtedly, Presuming that the individual selects Hint euuld be educated aright by noble-minded he did. Ilul whv was he appointed, in- which he most wauls, mere wishing can New England. This slate of a Hairs in t-aehors, corruption in poliiics would be stead of some of Hio.se others, who were never cause the fullilmeiit of h desiics; those section can not be remedied by rare, and there would be little need of far superior to H -(knap, w ho held olllees hut the greater the height desired lo bt learned politicians, doctors, or lnwcis lawyers and doctors, who now live by poo. in Hie bite war, of hiirlu r rank than he, reached, the more Iho energies are taxed Neither can it be obviated by the learned pi" breaking the 1 iw of "he country and who were older ami abler, and who were to gain tlfe goal. ch'iu'.v ; as Hi!' ai. oiih mend m, of smls of physiology. The crying demand of far more worih of it y Shu pit because Tne asserting of our will to do soino lint it enn he done by an army of intelli our country is More educated teachers Helknap, who had playd upon the politi certain act, or to pursue some certain gent and enthusiastic teachers; aslhey arc Who will respond lo the call? When oil- ! cal stage, bail iiiHucuceovcr the President, course in life, is no index to the force Hint Ha makers of souls. ucalors and teachers will be at the front of ; do m.t get the good and honesl men ' is needed to energetically push forward in It is not necessary (hat the majority of I civilization, when I he., take the place of of our country lo fill our positions of mist the course wo have described for ourselves, the people receive a classical education. ! dishonest lawyers and crafty statesmen, 'and honor. Tliev are iheone, that remain i It isan easy thinir for a boatman to wish Hut it is essential that our teachers should I then, and not till then, shall wo have he highly educated, that Hioy may instil 'reached our glorious goal. D, Into the youth of the rising generation, ' l... , : patriotism, and a lovu and admiration for the good, the into and iho beautiful. If teachers will endeavor to till our youth with enthusiasm for knowledge, a sulll cient number of them will, undoubtedly, seek Iho higher education. Corruption. Corruption always did exist, and always will exist. Much has been said in regard to the corruption that has existed in our government, and which has recently been Russia, which has made such rapid i exposed. This give ample proof, of what strides of late years, has lately adopted we advocated in the last issue, vit: that at homo, performing Iho duties of their I himself across a river, ho can easily lay profession, of their trade, or whatever du- j his plans concerning tho Hip, but it is ly that devolves upon them with honesty, ' work lo land his skill' on the opposite intelligence and alacrity. Refusing to bo bank. A man given lo reasoning will at iutricated in political squabbles, and ever once conjecture how to possess himself of ready to do any act that may tend to be Hie means necessary lo acquire a certain beneficial to their country's welfare, jonil, while the man of energy will at once There is one great mistake Hint tho ioung proceed to put his ideas into execution. men of the present day make. They have an idea, to become grout mid wealthy, It is often that, while wo do not admire the result obtained, wo express our ndini they must boonio politicians. Were it tho I ration for the person Ihrouuh whoso tner- tho compulson-educational system. Ami .corruption is increasing, thai American i overs-, to become wretched and misera- !gy it has boon accomplished. Itis natural she has no doubt raised the standard of politician" have a binning leiie for g.ifn, ' bio, they would bo right. To young men, ' see some of our fellow men achieve her teaohcis according! v. Il'l ! X. .... ........ . " - w valine new anil lor which nicy tiro ever ready lo sac we would say let politic), alone, beck success, wjieiher it be in science, or art, Mexico, which is relapsing into semi- ' rillce their honor and ehantshr. Let us ! not the pettv ohiecs of our l'o eminent. , or on Iho rostrum, or in nuv ol the various barbarism, use.-, every etl'ort o crush com- Mop heicnid observe who makes the po J for they are all ti i i, compared to a good branches of Ihu many kiwis of business mon school education. Gov. Giddiitgs, of Uieian It is not tho man who has means, and well learned prof, sion. Live, uul wc have in life. It is with prido wo point Now Mexico, in his message says: "New it is not the man, who bio t will, nature's peif .nil rnir duties in public, and in pii- to our merchant piince, who rose to his Mexico claiming lo be a civiliz.-d people, highest gift, inlelleclual power. No, vale lile in an honorable manner, ami Hie present position in lift from the humble exhibits the mournful Hd, that outside of this elms of men wry seldom can In- ! ,fflv$,iw positions of ,-, and ,.. ui occupation or soiling matches in the street. iSanta Fc th.re is scare. U a school of any called politicians, and onl lake that p.n suk y.. and earl., limi yn The ,,i.e. The sage, who presents us w ith such new kind wlmteii-i." I in politics which is Hie duly of all Am eii ti,.., no is, how i, u.is'uM i, thi- ImiIIis in science as ho has gained by so. We are apt lo think Dm .ill American ' can citizens. In the majmlu f ,-.,s. ,.;,,, ,.,., , ,. ,,,, (l " TllH u-re Mudy, command our heart admit ii.stiluiio.is ..n- the boM. lint Germany is our politician., me tlm. , hue , n (lu. sih.n is not ,sii ...e-wucl, l,.u h, mir tioti. The newspaper editor, who by Ids fur ahead of us in both common and j un uccessful in some underlaki.. P-r-' opinion, the-e i, only one way in which ii 'energy causes his paja-r lo lake a leading higher cliiciiiou On arriving on our j haps a professic n, for I. s.rms that the ' can be rem. did, and iht is,'i teach man ' pb.ce'among Iho paper of the day, is tho soil, what .. contrast the Germans sec be- lar -ebt class of political men .lain, to he ' , ,-,... ,,. ,,,, fln. ManMi ..r of l.Ul. I favorite of the people, twee, on. . dncat.onal f .cilities and theirs 'nwyers, and who, being inconienied low men, the fear of ihe Miii..-..i ,,a,,.r. The student in college, ho energetical They do no. lind those noble and inlell. with (he hard and incessant l,il,. thai f.ll, ,. ,ilrt lltl, , (,mi,u,lliu.h ,',. rUl , ,, 1ares to compete will, any, is geaor-g-ntteacheisthatlhcyhad in their own , upon a lawyer, and who, m.t bavin- the ov.r the felimr.s ami doi,,,,of me,. With ally one of tho leaders In school. The bind Hut Ihey are compelled to have , pnlionee to sit all day, dicing out some . prospect. ofW..plg the law, (as young man who enters college and oner- their children taught Dy schold juveniles Involous and technical .,i,,i ,,,, wMch j r.e.pmn.ly is ,,,, mm h, sj,.,.,. m r a geticallj prepares himself lo conquor whose minds arc not matured onong 1, to hi, case may doped, and m.j cpHva J .,.,gle i........ m. to p. rpCutc ans w illlul everything which he finds in his way, can betheir own guardians. 1 hoy see ll.nl led with poli.ic-,1 life, they 1 .i..-l, out in ,.! nuluious ..e. look forward to Iho future with a L.lgW almost anyone may become a teacher; a lo the political world, searching f.,r gain. The relucions inclinations of mankind ' heart, and if he is endow.d wilhanj (jiail porsonlhal has not nigenully enough to destitute ol principle, destitute of every-I each d0 ,row le, and - Ion- as .hi, I ideations t.occsary for Hie business which f3smxswgt&mmmimmMmtmv. wwoemi '.' vnESnuBHHRiRrflHSASASSM