The Union is the enemy of
poverty, and for that reason especially it is an agent for good.
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As poverty breeds ignorance, so ignorance breeds poverty. The
greatest enemy of poverty is the Public School. Work and vote,
therefore, for public school betterment.
Miserable women walk the streets by thousands on cold Winter
nights--poverty has put them there.
Hundreds of thousands of children are born only to struggle for a
few years through a stunted infancy--poverty digs their graves.
For one genius that has fought and conquered in spite of poverty
ten thousand have sunk out of sight in the fight against the
worst of enemies.
Don't waste time extolling the blessings of poverty--use your
energies to diminish poverty's curse, and to improve humanity by
giving it the full efficiency which freedom from worry alone can
give.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION PROVED IN LINCOLN'S CASE
The very old and very foolish saying, "A little knowledge is a
dangerous thing," is disproved every day. Whenever you hear a
man talk about "a little knowledge" ask him what he thinks about
the danger of a great deal of IGNORANCE. Tell him this:
"THE SCHOOLING OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ALL TOLD DID NOT AMOUNT TO AS
MUCH AS ONE YEAR."
The teaching was elementary, including reading, writing,
ciphering, and very little of each one.
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