The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-29
FoR THE REPuBLIc.l

The school and school District American
Instituto and Miniature Republic; 4
In tohich the Science Of Self Government and Re
preventative Government toiH be the Study and
the art Of People.
The attention of the people of the United States
is respectfully invited to the subject of establish
ing the School and School District American In
stitute in each school district in Union, in
GLIDING a teachers residence, an experimental
and model farm, garden of plants, from which
each family may have seeds and plants OF the most
choice fruits. vegetables, and flowers known; with
such improvements on the American Institute of
the city of New York, the National and Smithsonian
Institutions of the city Of Washington may seem
appropriate; with rooms for public meetings, for
chemical, electrical and other philosophical appa-
ratus; for free library, as in Massachusetts and
New York, for the reception and preservation OF
the newspapers and reviews OF the great parties
which divide our country, county and State pa
pers of the respective schools, the Presidents
nual message with the accompanying documents,
the Patent Office report, the geological and topo.
graphical reports, and such others as Congress
may deem appropriate; 30 that each voter may
examine thoroughly the great questions which
agitate our country-making the annals of the
Government the property of the people. 10.
Mothers and Daughters American Institute
an American Maternal, Paternal and Juvenile
Code of Laws, may be established for mutual i'm
provement, to aid in self culture, where the old
and the young may become successful learners and
teachers of truth; and thus the mothers and daugh
tiers Of our country will have facilities for higher
attainments than at present
A number of citizens have offered to give labor :,
books, APPARATUS, land mon ey, Sc, to aid in estab
fishing State and county normal schools, expert
mental and model farms. Perhaps the most sue
| cessful example Of the capabilities Of land under
proper management, and of the immense crops
which can be raised, may be seen in the National
Model Farm School under the management OF the
Board of Education at lasnevin, Dublin, Ire
land, which is said to yield more food for man and
beast than any same number OF acres throughout
the British empire See plan of M. de Felen
berg, Of Switzerland; Township System in De
Tocqueville's Democracy in America; and prize
essay on Clown o. anizaton, its Uses and Advan.
tages;" by Robert A. Coffin, esq. .rt.
In Guizot's Lectures on the History of Ciyiliza-
ton, he says that ndvidualism, selfishneas, was
the great obstacle to the advance Of European civil
izaton. -t. .-.'.. r... ...
BY introducing good libraries, philosophical up
paratus, experimental and model farms, much
valuable knowledge may be acquired by the chill
dren and youth OF our country between the ages
| Of four years and twenty one, with the advantage
of pursuing investigations and experiments in the
School and School District American Institute in
after life, greatly facilitating the means of adding
to human knowledge. and OF diffusing it..
In leisure hours, or if thrown out of employment,
access may always be had to a valuable library,
philosophical apparatus, and to pleasant place of
resort for social enjoyments as well for POLITICAL
physical, intellectual, and moral improvement.
Estimating the cost Of each school at s IL, 900,
and eighty school districts in the Union, the whole
cost would be 100000. This is large amount,
yet, if the American people approve, they equal
to its accomplishments and is not the object suffi
cient induce fathers. mothers, and the youth Of
our country to dispense with some Of the luxuries
and tinscl of the day to accomplish it?
If government be great political, social, intel
lectua, and moral partnership. will not the adop
ton of the proposed measure greatly advance its
object?
Will the American people establish the School
and School District American Institute during the
Presidential canvass an American measure OF
political and social progress?a gift Of the Repub
lie to civilization. JOSEPH L. SMITH.