Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-12-29
EDUCATION. IN ENGLAND.

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dOn-The school Ques sfion.
We clip the following paragraph from a
ondon letter to the New York Herald:
1T is needless to inform any American
no has seen our large towns in England,
DIV fearfully we are behind you in the
after of education for the poor. If any
merican correspondent of an American
aper, or any American writer resident in
ngland, was to walk down or through a
ngle district of score / could point out
London, and was to give his fellow
untrymen simple but faithful account
what he saw, Englishmen would put
wn his words as being untrue, exagger-
ID, unfair and the like. And yet would
fly him, or any one who was merely
1rd painter. and who never co1ored his
ctures, not to astonish his readers with
drawing he set before them, provided
was only true 10 the life. When | tell
that we have here in London upwards
25. 900 ''gutter children" who live in the
eets who never hear the name of their
lker but in a blasphemous oath, and
10 have no occupation but what they
Ike for themselves, no teaching but that
.ich educates them for the prison, the
ormatory, the thieves kitchen and for
innate penal servitude; when I tell you
8 as simple statistical fact you will
,dly wonder if / say education for the
lion is somewhat needed in this land.
when / add also as statistical fact
to these 25, 600 wanderers there is an
tijion of 5, 900 women of bad character
Ter Is years of age, and 1000 professed
ives of the same tender years, you will
lder now, with the immense wealth of
ldon, God does not visit us for our sins
that this huge overgrown Babylon of
ks is not destroyed by Him as were the
IS of the plains. Has no effort been
le to redeem these children? Has no
no set of men or women ever put on
an undertaking to educate them in
9 measure, to teach them something of
esty and of their relative duties to God
man?
forts have not been wanting, but we di-
our forces, we will not act together,
so the evil goes on and is every year
easing. The established Episcopal
rch has many schools, and might have
funds at it's disposal to have many
z. The Baptists, the Wesleyans, and
Roman Catholics have also their
OILS; the latter the most energetic, and,
he limited number of their communi-
he most efficient of all. But with the
{ many of the we'll -to-do classes in
land there is most unaccountable ap-
upon that all important subject Our
lgth is divided; there is no law by
h parents are obliged to send their off
ng to school, and from the thieves,
ths, and fallen women one can only ex-
that they should, as they do, greatly
er that the children pick up here lit
and there httle-by odd jobs, by sell
matches, by thieveng, and by worse
ch adds something, NJ matter how lit--
to the general funds of the household.
he radical party in England propose, as
smedy for this, that an act of Parlia-
Mt should be brought forward by which
es should be levied from all household
for the payment of common schools;
It to these common schools it should be
de imperative for all persons who are too
Or to educate their children to send both
Us and girls of their families; and that at
ase schools no religious teaching be
her enforced or even allowed, so that up
the score of different creeds no objection
ould be raised. But to this there is the
position of religious denominations. The
nglicans, the Wesleyans and the Catho-
IS say alike that education without relig-
n is worse than no education at all What
ley demand is that the scheme, now prac-
ced on comparatively small scale, and
allied the denominational system, should
e greatly enlarged, and that to each relig-
Gus persuasion a grant of government
aoney should, under certain restrictions,
,e given, with which to build schools, pay
eachers and general work out, under gov
rnment inspection, system of education
lpon large scale.
The Roman Catholic Church in this
has, up to the present time, shown
more energy, more activity, and has been
more successful in it's schools than any
ther denomination. And the clergy as
veil as the laity of that church are. more
han any others, determined to oppose
4nything like a system of secular educa-
ion. They say, increase the funds you
.llow us; where you have one Catholic
'chool enjoying government assistance, we
will establish five or six, if you will only
,xtend the help you give us. Then, if you
ike, make it compulsory upon all the
children of our faith to attend these
'chools, an6 punish the parents who don't
,bey your order.
The liberal press object to this. They
'ay that they will not pay any sect more
han another. They don't want and will
lot have religious teaching mixed up with
secular education, and as to '.forcing chill
lren to be Taught Popery" that would be
.gainst the rights of EngIishmen.
Very well. say the Catholics, sat the
lext election, and even during the next
we will help the tory side on
his question, and if you persist in your
pill, and it is made government measure,
We will turn the political tide by voting
With the tories. Z"
Mr.. Gladstone is fully alive to the gravity
If the position. Personally, he objects
rery much indeed to education of the poor
without religion, and would be inclined
nost decidedly to take part with the Angli-
,ans, Wesleyans and Catholics, by bring
ng IN measure which would allow each
to educate their own poor,
md augmenting greatly the govern
nent grants for that purpose. But
he Premier is, IN great meas
ire, helpless. He is surrounded by
ministers who are already pledged to the
proposed measure, and who will hear OF
lothing but their favorite scheme But
low another element has been brought to
tlaY. ln6I6 Is AO uOuDb Dut Lual Inc Ecu
cenical Council will take action on this
question, and that both in England and in
reland the ''thunders of the Church" will
10 evoked against all parents who send
heir children to schools at which religion
orms no part of the teaching. At large
aeeting of Roman Catholics, held last week
t Birmingham, the Earl of Denbigh, a
sading man among the Catholics of this
ountry, declared that he would rather see
hildren sent to schools where Protestant
SIN was taught than to schools where no
ehgion at all was inculcated; and the meet
ng, of which the Roman Catholic bishop
II the place was chairman, cheered HIM
heartily when he made this remark.
CLEANING THE CELLARS. Every cellar
hould at least have thorough cleaning
'at. Everything movable in it should have
IS position changed with this view, and
ne sides and ceiling of the cellar should
oe carefully brushed down and one or two
leavy coats OF whitewash applied Early
"intef--we may say at this very time when
outdoor labor is pretty much over-should
90 appointed for the first cleaning. The
othef s1onld take place in April. when the
1egetable matter, and meat pickle imnera
lively require attention.
IN both cases the cleansing shonld bo
borough, and the cellar made to annear 90
lean and sweet as any room in the house