The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-11

10 be regarded as settled in this city it is
that relative TO change Of the city charter.
IL bas been discussed and re-diseussed, agi- =
tated and regulated; it has been debated
in the newspapers, agitated on the street ,
corners, talked about over mugs of foaming
ale, and preached and prayed about in :
our churches; it has been voted on time
and again, The people declaring every time
and all the time that they desired no change.
Yet, notwithstanding all these facts, we
have small clique of busy bodies, who,
apparently from lack of something else to
do, annually unearth, this subject and force
| il upon the attention of the people Like
/ Banquo's ghost, these new charter men
will not down." Worse than Macbeth's
blood spots, they win not q out" So, il
happens that the people have to meet and
4 dispose of this question again this year, as
they have, virtually, in every city election
for the past Eve years. -, e +
But as in almost every affection there |
may be derived some degree of consolation,
50 we can in this. Our schools viii be
priced all the more from the watchful care
and labor required to preserve them. We
feel assured they are already SO fixed in the
affections Of our people that every plain
and ontspoken attempt to secure their over
throw will only result in disaster and defeat
to those making the attempt. But, absorb I
ed in the management of their private af-
fairs, the people are rot always quick to
detect the maShinations Of intriguers who
devote most of their time to Matching up
schemes to give themselves notoriety or TO
accomplish some personal advantage.
Jesuitism is not alone confined to relig-
ious matters; it may be seen in politics as
: well. Artful men seldom permit their in
tentions or designs to appear on the surface.
IT That's always smoothe and irreproachable.
st Our people may rest assured that this is the
i case with the present attempt to bring about
F. the adoption of the new charter. Every
els man in favor of the adoption of the new
u charter will be found to be a warm friend
r of theschools. They will talk glihly and with
IF apparent sincerity of the great advantages OF
IS, the public schools; of their admiration and
Of affection for them they viii insist that the
he adoption of the new charter will in no way
p affect the schools; Il if they thought il
ao would they would he the last larlzs to rec
err onmeDd change; they. viii assert that
TX the schools depend alone on the willingness
az of the people to be taxed for their support
Pm and that the people can pay the taxes as
sir well undersrth ii.ym as under the old char
81 ter. with soPhistiyalt arguments and ap
rs, peals like these they viii fill the populal
he ear, in hopes that by the indifference o
ng many voters, and in deceiving Others
ne, they may succeed in securing a vote tina
eaa nszer 81 Feesesd a US SAe % Teaa
he IT, Let Il Be remembered, that while tn
re, new charter advocates may spring thi
he questionsupon us atevery April election,
M once they succeed, their triumph is conp5et
he and are0oeab5e, This fact of itself, calls 70
W extraordinary watchfulness on the part o
tie the friends of the schools. They must no
- permit themselves to be lulled into careless
nj ness with the idea that the schools are 8
AZ strongly seated in the affections of the PEG
is pls that they cannot be overthrown. Al
K overwhelming majority of the voters of tn
mt city are IN favor OF sustaining the publ
ns schools, when they know that is the oaes
he tiOa az issae, but very many may be induce,
ad to give the schools fatal stab, under th
of Impression that they are voting for meas
n ure that win in no wise disturb their eff
:, ~ cheney or preservation lss 20 sai
d We have sounded warning to the friend
ae- of popular and universal education, "A
CO. another ume--if the advocates Of the new
- charter succeed in forcing their sehem,
=. through the Council, and order new cleo
.st tion-we will feel At liberty to discuss no
n only the propositions itself, but the men who
Cd advocate it. We would not do our duty a:
>, Journalists. did we tail to point out those
who are so watchfnl to overthrow oul
% cherished institution, and one which has re.
Elected SO much credit upon our city abroad
err and is doing SO much to elevate it at home
Il - 4st - $50 1915
= 0A- No one can read the speech of John
:. Bright in the English Parliament, and Lord
! Palmerston's reply to il, without noticing
- the marked difference with which the two
J efforts we're received, by the British Com
moners- Brights expressions Of approval
Of the cause of our government and appre-
!. citation Of our institutioas were, received with
:. derisive shouts of d" OH, OH" While Pal
: merston's illusions to US, not at all com
- plimentary, were received with cheers and
:. shoutsof applause. aa But for allthis there
is day of Judgment" lasE @af0E9 '
- THE Fort Wayne Times hoists the name
~ of Gen. GEo. B. MoCLELLAa for President
= in 1864. Dawson is not likely to create SO
much excitement with his candidate as he
did among the women in Utah, for which,
- as the Mormons alieaes he was driven out
to of that Territory. asa ~