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professions to whif.li this system is adapted are already 

 crowded to overflowing ; while in any of the industrial occu- 

 pations no man can command one doHar a month more on 

 account of having received a college education. And when 

 a man cannot command honest employment in the business 

 to which he has been trained, and has been thoroughly dis- 

 inclined towards any other, there is nothing open to him but 

 .to live by his wits, unless he has that rare original genius 

 by which, here and there, a man is able to remodel him- 

 self. 



To reform the evil to which I have called your attention 

 will require a mighty eflbrt. The first step is that we should 

 understand the necessity that exists for a change. The next 

 is for every man and woman to make a fuss about it, until 

 the change is eflfected. Nothing can long stand that a ma- 

 jority of the people are continually making a fuss about. 

 Making a luss is the palladium of our liberties. The people 

 made a fuss about the tyranny of England, and then the 

 revolution. They made a fuss about slavery, and then the 

 emancipation. They are making a fuss about dishonest 

 politics, and thieving politicians are going to the penitenti- 

 ary. The farmer made a fuss about the middlemen and the 

 railroad, and then reform. We have only to make a fuss, 

 and a big fuss, and keep making a fuss, and we shall have a 

 reformed school system ; and when we get that we may edu- 

 cate our boys and girls as much as we choose, without any 

 fear of educating any of them away from the farm that 

 ought to be there. 



I entreat yon therefore, brethren, to make a fuss about 

 this matter. Do not let the lawyers and ministers manage 



