Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-08-28
Educational.

Educational.
/ TRENroN. August 2U.-YeStcrday the
National School Teachers Association held
its ninth annual session. Tine thousand
male and female delegates were present,
Judge Field of New Jersey. welcomed the
mcmter>. y temporary educational bu-
reau was recommcnde for the purpose Of
furnishing and receiving situations for
teachers. Olhccr> were appointed for the
! American Normal School for the ensuing
year. \ resolution inIuiring whit laws
Tor tie study and practice of Normal
/ School, wcr. best calculated Ia elevate the
standard of cluca;ion and reduce teaching
L. Il uniform system. Several interesting
papers Including unc hv Judge Fields on
tie obligations Of christianity to learning.
were rtai.
The Educational Convention has reached
immense proportions: over 600 enrolled
delegates are in attendance besides cti-
zcns. Several distinct meetings were held
this mornin. by the National Superintcnd-
ent> Association. the American Normal
School and the National Teachers AS>oci-
alton. The ladies' were addressed by Miss
{. +. Bo>har on practical female cIuca-
ton. and at the last nights meeting adopt
ei joint resolutions flvoring an education
al bureau aud appointed joint committee
- wait on Congress to advocate the con-
,inusucc and extension of said bureau
Las, nights meeting listened to lecture
by Mrs. Randall OF New York. on nation
nj reading. John T. Pilbroke, of Boston.
/ lcctured on schools and workshops: Pro-
ic>sor NcClin,ock. of Philadelphia. lee
turcd on physical school education; Gen
Howard lecturcI on education in the South.
with reference TO colorcd schools The
Convention was Il marked success. AMI will
give new impetus to the cause of cluca-
ton.
TRENTON. Aug. 2l.-Thrcc educational
associations held district meetings this
morning. At the National Teachers meet
ln.. with Overlooking audiences. ID. b.
Logan, of Mass. was elected Pre- .Idcnt for
the ensuing year. Hon. Jas. White, Prof
of Monroe College. of Mass, made an adj
dress. Prof Apyar, Of New Jersey State
Normal School, lecturei this morning.
General re union and closing exercises take
place in Taylor Hail in the evening.
/ SALEM. Mass, Aug. 20.-The Amcri-
can Scientific Association continues its
session. Numerous papers were presented
aud read upon scientific subjects. The at
tan,!aucc is very large.
National Labor Congress.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2l.-In the Ma
tionaI Labor Congress the Committee on
Female Labor made report which WAS
adopted, recommending that all trade
unions make effort to secure a thorough
organization of female labor at the same
pay for work, equally as well done by wo-
men as BY men aud that every avenue of
labor for which women are physically ca
pactatel, would be freely opened on the
same conditions as are allowed to any class
We ask for women equal opportunity and
rights in every field of enterprise and Ia.
Dor. Resolutions were adopted denounc-
in, coolie labor, but declaring that volun-
tary Chinese emgrants should be protected
like other citizens. A special committee
on new political party was appointed,
then recess taken.
The Labor Congress has adopted plat
form, Of which the following is synopsis
"All political powers are inherent in the
people of free Government, founded on
their authority and established for their
benefit; that laborcrs in all departments
of useful industry are suffering from the
system of monetary laws, which were Gu
acted during the late war, as measures as
sumed to be necessary to the life Of the
nation, and which are now sought to be
perpe;uated in the interest of the bond
holders and bankers, to subvert the Gov
eminent our fathers established or raise
an empire in which all political power will
be centralized to restrain and Cypress the
rights Of labor and subordinate its voters
to the mcrciless demands of aggregate cap
ital and surercilious authority; that the
National banking system has been inlmical
to the spiri, of liberty and the subversion
of the principles OF justice, without war.
ran. in III, Constitution Of the United
States. and wrongfuily increasing the bur
dens of the wealth producing classes mil
lions Of dollars annually: justice, the asPi-
rations ofhonost industry and the spirit OF
imperillcd liberty, demand the immediate
rer~,al of the substitution of legal tender
notes as exclusively currency ofthe nation
tha, the National Labor Mon is opposed
IN the continuation Of creating banks by
acts of incorporation. either by State or
Na,iona, authority, with the privilege Of