The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-11-07

to any found in the most favored parts OF
the United States. The school room is
large and airy and furnished, from Boston,
with the latest and best sly lie of school
furniture. The books, maps, globes and
tuition are all free. The room is in the
most perfect order, the pupils under the
best of discipline, and the teachers are
an honor to their profession. All classes
of inhabitants, both rich and poor, send
their children to school here on a perfect
equality; all are taueht alike and all have
the best teaching that can be had in the
country. he>people of Lawrence brought
with them from the East, this system of
FREE SCHOOLS and planted it here as a
substitute for the Southern system of pay
schools.
A free Democracy requires all the chill
dren of a community to be educated
equally; this can never be done where the
system of pay schools is adopted. The
rich will educate their children while the
poor viii grow up in idleness.
The people of Lawrence will be called
upon in few days to renew their sub
scriptions for the support of this school
through the winter. We hope it will be
done without murmur As soon as the
Free State Legislature sets, laws estab-
fishing free schools, will be enacted, and
then taxes will support them instead of
subscriptions 1t is public duty, to ed
ucate the children, SO all must pay who
have money, whether they have children
or not.
There is still another school in COMPETE
ton with this, called the Street School. In
most towns in the West this school is in
the most fourishing condition of any 9TH
er. THERE'S card hanging in the school
room in Lawrence, which reads as fol-
lows -
THE STREET SCHOOL.
There are many things learned out of
schools and nowhere is there more learn
ed than in the streets. Bad boys almost
always love the streets. There they are
out of the way of parents and teachers
and masters. There they see plenty of
entertaining sights. There they meet
with many playmates, especially with
those who are older and worse than them
selves. There they can halloo and shout
laugh and sing, without restraint Es-
pecially at night al. these things are worse,
and then they learn very fast The street
school is very much of night school.
When boys are sent on errands, they
sometimes stop by the way, and take
street lessons. They go out of their pro-
per course, stand at corners and cape at
new sights. There are classes of the
street school at the doors of the theater
and circus, and whenever there is fire, or
procession, or military parade, or when
a crowd follows the constable and his pris-
oner.
The street lessons are various. Idleness
is the first and the chief Curiosity about
evil is next. Boldness and impudence are
also taught
Then come profane and filthy words,
vile jests, unclean sorgs, quarreling, fight
ing, and even drinking. After while,
the pupils in the street school are far en-
ough advanced to go up to the upper in
situations, such as the jail and the aims
house.
Thousands of parents favor this school;
and some who pass for good people too.
1t is less troublesome than any other. If
you wish your boy to be entered as a
street-scholar, all you have to do is to let
him alone. Take no care about his COM
pany. Never rebuke him for coming late
from school or from an errand. Do not
trouble yourself about the way he passes
his evenings. Never mind what time he
comes home at night Especially do not
trouble yourself about sending him to
Sunday school.
But the street school is very expensive.
The price is not paid in advance, Or in
ready money, but it is sure to be demand
ed, with heavy interest. The payments,
loss of conscience. loss of character, often
loss of health, and sometimes the loss of
the soul. The great teacher of street
schools is Abandon Grew. tx. IL but,
like number of his scholars, he has sew
eral other names.
hope the young friends who read this
card viii be persuaded to absent them
selves from the street school at once, and
never be caught in it again. The teacher
is the Prince of darkness, or some Of his
messengers. The lessons are such as he
has prepared, to destroy the souls of his
pupils, and all who attend and agree to
serve and obey him.
Get into some useful employment, or
innocent amusement. Go to school; stay
at home and help your parents, but do,
by all means, keep out of the street.
This playing marbles or pitching pennies
is the worst kind of employment you can
have. 'Idleness is the mother of mis-
chief"