and everywhere, they earn their own
living. We want more industrial, technical, and cooking schools,
and fewer schools where the instruction is merely literary. We
want schools in every parish for the development of the capacities
of our people. Instead of being so anxious for a "higher
education," for "cramming" their brains with a
lot of useless luggage, let our efforts be devoted to training
the workers of every district in its speciality; so that, by cultivating
and perfecting the different kinds of handicraft, the nation shall
excel therein, and thus benefit the nation and secure to the working
class the means of earning an honest livelihood.
We went an organization in every parish for developing the skill
and practical intelligence of the working class, we want facilities
in every parish to enable our young people to obtain sound instruction,
theoretically and practically, that will make the men good workmen,
the women good housewives. We went a greater faith in the belief
"that there is always an opening for a good workman."
We do not want "poor - houses" in every parish; we want
real " workhouses," where the workmen shall be taught
how to work. Poverty might be kept at a distance if we taught
our people how to earn their living, and explained to them that
it is not by labour alone, but by the "thrifty" use
of the produce of their labour, that the gaunt spectre "poverty"
may be avoided; that, by a wise abstinence, they may not only
keep themselves from destitution, but gradually and surely they
or theirs may advance upward and become successful and prosperous
men. To ensure this, the working class must listen to truth, how
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