Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-06-24
MIR. EDITOR:

DEAR SIR noticed in your excellent
paper ot Sundays issue, an able and well
written urllcle under the caption Of "Cum-
mon Schools" Now ii cannot be presumed
for II mcmcnt that the citizens and trustees
of Oroyllle Will permit our Iubc school to
come to close tor the want Of funds to
keep it going. Since it has been found out
that We had good Free School, many fam
lies nave been induced To locate among Us,
almost solely with IL view OF educating their
children; and ii there is any one thing
above another that would tend to improve
our place, and build up eeclety on IA good
basis. that thing Is a }tee SchOOi. There
are at lhs time yearly eghty fupu~ belong
iug 10 our tree scnoul, about sixty IA reg
ular uttcniaucc.
Now u very large proportion Of these
Chlidicu's parents are too poor to lay ANY
tWuuu, may, some are not able 10 lul lch"sc
necessary books-tuition beng tree. Now
II IS seem to Us, that # We cannot keep
up our school with our present machinery
OF clty government that we had better, as
our tueud "B n. :" re'uarkrl dispense
with onc-yea, two Of the police, if neccs-
sary, and keep the school going tnau to re-
f litI Autll hbi iVN iIt SAb''' ~ ~ tIC
board" Why, what is the otj ,ct If police,
men? To preserve order in society; to see
that those laws made Tor the mutual good
OF IL community are adherei TO. Who Is it
that seven times out Of ten dsohcy the law.
Of the lauA3 Who is II we see nearly every
day reclilg under the il tueuce Of ardent
spirits III our streets and lying in the mar
I row ways aud 10y paths thereoI' In nlmrst
every instance. those that have not hal the
means of being educated. Want do the bet
statistics OF our country show concerning
/ the inmGtes Of 0ur pententiarie,? They
show beyond n doubt thnt the proportion
Of these in public prisons, not educated az
all, is more than two to one. l. not TINS y
| startling fact? People are beginning 10 see
that it would be less expensive to educate
all iutant, than to support nn ngei cri "lual
in a State Prison, nay, that IL county phuper
costs more than n well educated child. We
/ are disposed to believe that ignorance amt
vice now costs the SKATE more than woult
! eXpatrlate them, and Introduce virtue and
: frrefiTrG1le III t1leif SIGri. il ahy one ~ef6
! 80 well acquainted in the Sta'e tnhnccs-ln
/ the expenditures for jHlis, 9ultentlhrles,
/ pillOries, poor houses; in gambling, gaming,
/ and immoral specnlatious; in idencss an!
/ its gigantic brood OF vices, as to tell how
many millions per annum ignorance ana
/ vice cost the nation | doubt not but that
We are paying more for the present st"ck Of
I ignorance aud vice, than would educate
/ every child born in the couhuo> OF the country
out Of the public purse Indeed there are
| t,o,e who cluscienIiousIy Ark whether
State government has n right, natural, in
herent or divine, to punish the crimes which
gs,w tgs}a iac ignorance -ha e5 q its' F2k"AF.
/ than removes by levying tax $ on myHads
/ without their consent, and withholding from
/ them That's educatjon which is e--enii"l To
their clear discrimination Of right and
wrong We deem il unnecessary 10 prose
cute ;ae subj .ct further, ali We cont lentiy
hope that iu short time an agproF Fnuon
viii hc made FROM the city; a not, il viii
be the first ty that we ever heard # that
did not make an appropriation tr -.l.O.
purposes. HUMANITY.