Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-05-12
Public school Enterprise.

AS will be seen elsewhere, an election is an
nounced on Friday next, May 18th, for the pur-
pose of levying tax sufficient to produce fifteen
hundred dollars to be devoted to school enter
prise. If there is any branch OF industry which
deserves the attention of the phlanthropist, the
politician, or indeed any class of men, it is the
one now under contemplation. Hundreds Of
children in our county are uuprovided with
school facilities, and the institution of a seminary
of learning on larger scale will be demanded
before many years. The movement for the ame-
Iteration of the school at this point will greatly
facilitate the erection of such an institution, and
property holders should deem tax for such an
enterprise as necessary both for the special pur'
pose for which it is intended and for the good of
the community at large, since the education OF
the head and heart is the best preventive to the
evil influences by which the rising generation of
our State are surrounded.
1t may appear burthensome to the actual
proprietor to be mulcted of percentage on his
honest and oft-times hard earned gains, but look
ing to futurity and the benefits to be derived
from judicious and energetic prosecution of the
science of teaching, should weigh more than the
paltry sum required for that object, not TO speak
of our duty to the rising generation Many who
will be called upon to contribute, demur from
the fact of their having no children of their own
to educate, reasoning CD the principle that every
man be charged for the education of his own off
spring. This is manifesty unfair first, from
the fact that children are the common property
of the State given by wise Providence to the
natural guardianship of parents. Their acts,
labor and genius are devoted TO the service of
the State their inventions and improvements
when at proper age, become the common proper
ty of all and their crimes, vices and corruptions
are a common charge. 1t were fallacy then to
except the educaton which is the base Of all
these common properties. Besides, if misfortune
overake a parent ii may involve many children
in its consequences, and thus the misfortune or
poverty Of single individual initiate to the
disadvantage of many whose labor and genius
would be common stock. If children were dis
tributed singly to heads of families, then might
The application of rule obtain, but it would be
maniiesly unfair to rob the State of the pros
pective advantage Of the labor and genius Of say
five promising children from the misfortune OF
poverty of single individual.
Community therefore is responsible for its
neglect OF those who must hereafter constitute
it. In addition to all these, virtue, morality,
truth, justice and all that render a community
happy and prosperous are best conserved, per-
petuated and instigated by the parent of all mo-
rality-education. We heartily CONCUR in the
movement contemplated by the Trustees Of this
school district and hope the vote will be decisive
and favorable to the onward march Of mind
AS will he seen by advertisement, the Trustees
have resolved to open polls at three points in the
Dstrict-Lewiston, Douglas City and Weaver
will