New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-25

and mine eyes o fountain Of tears, that might
weep day and night for the'-dear people. Ii
exemption from the payment of honest deo.s-sue
privilege OF voting Themselves farm, or gfasui'0aS
instruction for their offspring were demanded oy
certain class, would go for ALL tooth and nau' ~
Eheir right.
But il | were myself just rs l am, deslfous OF
looking on the bright side Of human character, out
Sti having m, mjssiynss ss to the cause OF three.
fourths the misery there is in tbs world woula
not, because man is poor take away Wnat il'sie
independence he might have left would not
teach him to covet mis- neighbours goods, but have
him learn that he should at least try to shoulder
1he private burden be has in moat instances i'm
posed on himself and further exhibit his manhood
by contributing his mate, though it be but mite
for public objects and by thus doing make himself
unit, otherwise CIPHER
would have School law, seeing law we must
have, something like the following being the same
furnished local print, which repubshed my former
communication to The Tribune, and called for
details
would have sill the children Of the State between
sai1 ages enumerated annually, and the number made
known NJ the Slate Department as heretofore.
would have the Department from precedent
how many wond be Necessary provide for and FIX
low maximum price per head for schooling
would have ibis ximum price made OF the Public
Srhooi Fund and State Iar
would abolish present Superintendent machinery.
and have the FUNDS thus made Distributed from the State
Treaaury 10 the County TreasueIs 10 be by them redB
siouted 10 the several Supervisors and they 10 Dbct
Trustees. And, TOR the present,
would have local District Fax 10 addition the slae
money be voted for under the Free School Act su
Gent 10 Keep school houses In repair fuel &c and also,
make up sum, when added TO The State money ample
for providing for such claimed schooling gyatuy,
and who in The opinion Of tbs Trustees might be deemed
INDECENT scholvshese being privileged to attend sa under
would allow voluntary organization topen to all, toe
poor and the not poor WIN Trustees subject 10 me
Pc these voluntary associations
would have the ssie money distributed by The District
Tusees on the prcaenthon of ceruhcete OF the Trus
ieen of voluntary organization of The legal amount OF
schooling.
writing arithmetic and geography should be taught and
supplementary stucies proficiency In hose enuner
would have the competency and moral character OF
Teachers ef entirely 10 me sagacy end prudence OF en-
ployers-dropping she speciton system.
would have the Stale require In ell cases. = nonlhs
Bchoo ipg snnun, embraced 10 ono Or TWO se'' >"
be entitled TO its money.
wor nop.apprecntion OF this muuhcence and freedom Of
etion 10 Tho poor well those who are not poor,
election of State md Count. officers all who might Other
wise be entitled vote slight anne ndment OF the Const
tuition being first made @ho could not lruhiuy swear II
chsleug they hsd schooled their children between
certain ages required me during the year preceding the
day of election
have not time to amplify and sustain by argu-
ment, If you had room and disposition to publish,
the aoheme Just sketched. | merely proposed II
for the criticism OF Free School advocates aRd to
see bow much il has the approval of those opposed
TO the existing Free School Law.
Yours truly, CLARKE RICE.
Remarks.
ANY man may make out case if you let
him assume his own premises. Mr.. Rice
coolly takes for granted that every poor
man is a drunkard, prodigal, intent on
living off his neighbors, while every rich or
well-of citizen is necessarily industrious,
frugal, temperate and exemplary. He will
please understand, once for all, that we de-
ny the justice of this representation. On
the contrary, we maintain that large por-
ton of the poorer heads of families are harder
working more frugal and diligent and
that Fortune, or genius for making money
off the labor of others, has very much to do
with the actual distribution of wealth in the
community. There are scores of poor men
who have large, dependent families, who
are personally weak or disabled by disease
or infrmity, and there are hundreds of
widows with three or more young children,
who cannot, by the most untiring industry,
earn three shillings day for the support of
them oil. Yet these children ought to be
educated, not merely for their own sakes
but for that of the community-for the
sake of their richer neighbors whose farms
they will hire or buy, whose mills and ma
ehinery they will run, whose property will
be enhanced in value by their industry, if
they receive suitable education; while, if
they grow up ignorant idlers in the streets
and the fields, they will probably be a
scourge and nuisance. We know the
man who owns q thousand acres of good
land in our State will generally consider it
hardship that he is taxed TO school the
poor children living near him; but we know
too that Avarice blinds him to the percep.
ton of his own true interest-that he can
better afford to pay the schooling of twenty
children than to have ten grow up about
him uneduoated. And, while we freely admit
that Education is personal benefit to its
receiver, we deny that it is benefit to him
only but insist that his education ID de-
manded by the true interest of the entire
community. If, then, the children of des
titute parents are decently clad and ade
quately fed and punctually sent to schoo
by those parents, we think the Property O.
the State or District may very justly be re
quired to pay their tuition.
IfMr. Rice were King without very
considerable enlargement of his mental cal
iber, we apprehend that his subjects woulc
not be greatly benefited by bis governing
That he is not a Demagogue, we may very
reasonably attribute to his possession of
Eharai shara of nrnnertv. which seems II